Comments on: Myanmar Victims May Be Getting Rotten Food

U.S. Shipments Continue As The Official Death Toll Rises To 34,273; U.N. Estimate Is Much Higher

[nnncola]

NoBillary that was brilliant. thank you for telling that numbskull whatsup.

[moneymcbush]

From NBC/NJ%u2019s Carrie Dann

NBC NEWS has confirmed that another McCain aide, Doug Davenport, has resigned because of his lobbying ties to the Myanmar government%u2019s military junta.

"Mr. Davenport has tendered his resignation and we have accepted it," McCain spokesman Brian Rogers writes.

The Atlantic''''s Ambinder reported: %u201CDoug Davenport, the regional campaign manager for the mid-Atlantic states, founded the DCI Group''''s lobbying practice and oversaw the contract with Myanmar in 2002. %u2026He joins former DCI Group CEO Doug Goodyear, who resigned yesterday from the post of convention CEO after Newsweek reported that DCI was paid more than $300,000 to represent Myanmar''''s ruling junta.

%u201CGoodyear and Davenport were recruited by McCain''''s campaign manager, Rick Davis, who has been accused by some current and former McCain advisers of take insufficient care of McCain''''s reformer brand by appointing lobbyists to key positions. Ironically, as Newsweek reported, Goodyear was asked to become convention CEO after Davis''''s lobbying firm partner, Paul Manafort, was nixed because of his own close ties to foreign governments and controversial companies.%u201D

Posted by No_Billary at 04:56 PM : May 13, 2008

Corey2444 says "Ouch, truth hurts me."

[enlightenu]

Why are we using the little C-130? Why can;t we be a little more serious about this and fly in our limited shipments with the C-5. it can carry about 6 times what the C-130 can. if runway problems are an issue the C-17 should be used. it hardly needs a real runway and can carry 4 times the load of the C-130.

[nnncola]

by the way...people who say Bush is not doing enough...get a CLUE... Myanmar is an ISOLATIONIST government, I will explain since there are obviously some really dim witted folks posting here, this means, they are very paranoid and distrustful of western governments, hence, they will not let us in. If we were to act on our own, and enter their country without permission, this would be what we call a MILITARY INVASION you numbskulls. Life is a chess game not checkers, so get smart or die

[no_billary]

From NBC/NJ%u2019s Carrie Dann
NBC NEWS has confirmed that another McCain aide, Doug Davenport, has resigned because of his lobbying ties to the Myanmar government%u2019s military junta.

"Mr. Davenport has tendered his resignation and we have accepted it," McCain spokesman Brian Rogers writes.

The Atlantic''s Ambinder reported: %u201CDoug Davenport, the regional campaign manager for the mid-Atlantic states, founded the DCI Group''s lobbying practice and oversaw the contract with Myanmar in 2002. %u2026He joins former DCI Group CEO Doug Goodyear, who resigned yesterday from the post of convention CEO after Newsweek reported that DCI was paid more than $300,000 to represent Myanmar''s ruling junta.

%u201CGoodyear and Davenport were recruited by McCain''s campaign manager, Rick Davis, who has been accused by some current and former McCain advisers of take insufficient care of McCain''s reformer brand by appointing lobbyists to key positions. Ironically, as Newsweek reported, Goodyear was asked to become convention CEO after Davis''s lobbying firm partner, Paul Manafort, was nixed because of his own close ties to foreign governments and controversial companies.%u201D

[realhdvideo]

This is out of control and America needs to do something for the sake of mankind. I can%u2019t believe that US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said %u201Cthe United States had no plans for a forced intervention in Myanmar to provide aid to cyclone victims%u201D. She is a total *** and she will get her karma for this one. Bush needs to get off his lazy a** and do something for the good of all mankind. Just because this is not political does not mean it is not wrong in the eyes of God. This is a crime when a Gov won%u2019t allow help into the country and it is allowing all their people to suffer and die.This is a million times worse then Katrina.

[moneymcbush]

The people of Myanmar are suffering because of a cruel government, one that John McCain and his buddies helped foster.

Two of his friends and paid campaign advisors, Doug Goodyear and Doug Davenport, have close ties to the Myanmar junta and are working as lobbyists for them.

McCains long history of close ties to these types of low life lobbyists and criminals exposes his lack of judgement and morals.

[prairiefox1]

you might consider the food to be rotten, you spoiled americans so in love with the big mac sandwich, but the poor eat it every day.

you have no moral standing to accuse the myanmar government of stockpiling food when your own government hoards petroleum while gas prices are artificially driven into the hypersphere.

do something about your own government.


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Posted by cpaide
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IF THE STORY IS A LIE THEN ALLOW REPORTERS TO GO INTO THE AREA AND PROVE IT! BUT THIS WONT HAPPEN BECAUSE IT IS ALL TRUE! GO AHEAD ALL YOU LIERS AND POST YOUR LIES! WE WILL IGNORE THEM!

[kennergirl]

Well the government hording the food for their military shouldn''t come as a surprise. Wasn''t this brought up right after the cyclone hit? That''s why the aid workers pushed so hard to be let in the country to distribute the food. It certainly isn''t the first time it happened, I understand that it happens in Africa too.

[observer2020]

Why not do what the guys working for Air America did? Airdrop large bags of rice and other items directly to villages, etc., that way the people that really need it, gets it. Why trust ANY government to disperse items fairly? And yes, I''m talking about ALL governments...none can be trusted. And by the way, you can have all the Big Macs that you can get your hands on...I don''t eat at fast food places...lousy food.

[cpaide]

you might consider the food to be rotten, you spoiled americans so in love with the big mac sandwich, but the poor eat it every day.

you have no moral standing to accuse the myanmar government of stockpiling food when your own government hoards petroleum while gas prices are artificially driven into the hypersphere.

do something about your own government.

[nyeinc]

Now, the government has no rotten food to distribute simply because it is not distributing the food from its strategic reserves at all. It is buying and distributing directly from the local rice businesses. IF the rotten rice (or even rice quality lower than the purchased grad) were really distributed to the cyclone victims, accountability will NOT be difficult this time. The rice (20,000 tons) was purchased only from single source so that the sellers cannot point finger each other when the problems like this arise. In such cases, the local businesswoman who sold 20,000 tons of rice to the government will be held accountable. If the middlemen (township or village/ward authorities) are abusing the relief materials, it would be so EASY to hold them accountable that I don%u2019t even want to comment on this. The top government leaders do not have a hand on the abuse business partly because they normally don%u2019t have direct control over the relief materials and partly because there are too few people at the top and too many eyes watching.

If the rotten food is NOT rice and the international food aid, then you will have to ask what is going on. With all the power the Burmese military leaders have inside Burma, they can still NOT make food rot in such a short time.

I know that you guys LOVE to hate non-democratic governments. It doesn%u2019t give you a license to make false accusations with sensational headlines though.

[nyeinc]

Burmese cyclone victims got the rotten food? This is a sensational story created by the regime opponents (based on their experiences from the late 1970s) to feed the Western media that is looking for the heart-breaking, sensational stories to report. Here is what happens (my version of events, take it or leave it).

In the 1970s and 1980s, under one-party socialist regime with centrally-managed, state-controlled economy, only the state-owned enterprises can do business in Burma. In rice trading, those enterprises usually store the rice in the warehouses like any other business. The warehouses in Burma were constructed such a way that the materials closer to the entrance were taken out and then refilled more frequently, leaving those further inside to be rotten. It is those rotten materials that were distributed to the public as rations and food aid in case of natural disasters because these two activities demand to empty the entire house. Such is our experiences in 1970s and 1980s and such is the experiences of the regime opponents who grew up in the 1980s and who are leading the political activities currently. From those unpleasant experiences and memories arise the sensational stories of rotten food (wet rice).