On May 11, 12:57=A0pm, cope <aBurmeseMus...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > >http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/05/10/ap4993788.html
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> > > > YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's military regime distributed
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> > > > aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top
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> > > > an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's
> > > > devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise.
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> > > Disgusting.
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> > IMHO not as disgusting as Mormans and Baptists going to Iraq with
> > blankets and bibles after we invaded the country under false pretext.
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> > Those muslins weren't killed by our bombs we'll kill them spiritually.
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> All those acts are equally disgusting.
Understandably you may feel this way because you are not American. As
a US citizen I feel I must hold my own country to a higher standard.
Some people choose to bash China while letting ourselves off the hook,
but as a patriotic American I feel it is my duty to represent my
country in a better light, by being introspective, citical to one self
first.
After all, such actions embody our cherished Christian notion "charity
begins at home", and the ofte forgotten verse after "my country, right
or wrong" - "when right stay right, when wrong set right."
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> > > > The United Nations sent in three more planes and several trucks
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> > > > with aid, though the junta took over its first two ****pments. The
> > > > government agreed to let a U.S. cargo plane bring in supplies
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> > > > but foreign disaster experts still were being barred entry.
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> > > > Despite international appeals to postpone a referendum on a
> > > > controversial proposed constitution, voting began Saturday in all
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> > > > the hardest hit parts of the country. With voters going to the
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> > > > state-run television continuously ran images of top generals
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> > > > junta leader, Senior Gen. Than Shwe, handing out boxes of aid at
> > > > elaborate ceremonies.
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> > > > "We have already seen regional commanders putting their names on
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> > > > side of aid ****pments from Asia, saying this was a gift from them
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> > > > then distributing it in their region," said Mark Farmaner,
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> > > > Burma Campaign UK, which campaigns for human rights and democracy
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> > > > the country.
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> > > > "It is not going to areas where it is most in need," he said in
> > > > London.
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> > > > The government's abilities are limited. It has only a few dozen
> > > > helicopters, most of which are small and old. It also has about 15
> > > > trans****t planes, primarily small jets unable to carry hundreds of
> > > > tons of supplies.
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> > > > "Not only don't they have the capacity to deliver assistance, they
> > > > don't have experience," said Farmaner, the British aid worker.
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