Word: airlifts
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...floats in the shoulder-high flood waters as sad chords linger in the background; crowds of victims wait for assistance as Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong asks “How long now?” The digitized military enters next, flying back from Iraq to airlift the victims to safety. To the video’s credit, the effects are interspersed with actual footage of the tragedy fairly realistically. But why? Green Day and U2 go to the trouble of creating a full-blown alternate history to tell us something we already knew: the government blew...
...operation, which doubled the population of the flat farmland in one single airlift, was initiated by intelligence from Iraq security forces, says Lt Col Skip Johnson commander of the 187 Battallion, 3rd Combat Brigade of the 101st Airborne. "They have the lead," he said to reporters at the second stop of the tour. But by Friday afternoon, the major targets seemed to have slipped through their fingers. Iraqi Army General Abdul Jabar says that Samarra-based insurgent leader Hamad el Taki of Mohammad?s Army was thought to be in the area, and Iraqi intelligence officers were still working...
...presented a political opportunity for the Bush Administration, which hopes that by providing assistance to a Muslim country in need like Pakistan, it can help improve its image in the Islamic world. Washington has promised $50 million in emergency aid, and already C-130 cargo planes are parachuting an airlift of blankets, plastic sheets, medical supplies and disaster-survival kits to victims. But U.S. officials say the military can't afford to make an open-ended commitment to the relief effort without hampering antiterrorism operations in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, relief groups trying to raise money for the victims say they...
...helicopters are in Iraq”), or Bush’s budget cuts, or some other disagreeable government policy Katrina would not have been an enormous disaster is disingenuous to the point of being an outright lie. The idea that we, as a country, have the resources to immediately airlift 50,000-odd people out of what is tantamount to a war zone, when virtually all civic infrastructure in New Orleans and its suburbs was destroyed or inoperable, suggests a shocking disengagement from reality...
Despite all appearances to the contrary, New Orleans had a plan. A week after the storm, Nagin summarized it for the Wall Street Journal: "Get people to higher ground and have the feds and the state airlift supplies to them--that was the plan, man." But in fact, the plan was more substantial. And it makes clear that the mayor was in charge when disaster struck. Nagin, a former executive with Cox Communications who was elected three years ago on the promise that he would purge the city of corruption, was supposed to prepare New Orleans for a hurricane...