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Originally Posted by Undertoad

And if those choppers show up with clean underwear when what the people need is clean water, or vice-versa, so what- the important thing is to get there first, so that we LOOK like we care.

Problem with that reasoning is that all that stuff now being distributed is exactly what was sitting on those ships one week ago. And yes, those ships even carry water purification systems that can be deployed immediately. Those ships sat three days away with so much of what the disaster needed - including transport to get it there. UT, your reasoning is correct if the ships did not have what was needed on day one. Using only what was already onboard, those ships are finally deploying what was needed one week ago. Americans had ready to deploy one week ago the foods, medicines, medical aid, water purifiaction system, tents, etc that were desperately needed. Stifled for five days until George Jr could make a deicison.