Posted on 07/19/2006 10:36:44 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
U.S. to evacuate 7,000 from Lebanon by Friday State Department waives fees for Americans fleeing fighting (CNN) -- The U.S. State Department said Wednesday it will help evacuate 7,000 Americans from war-torn Lebanon within the next two days. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told CNN's "American Morning" that 1,000 would leave Wednesday, 2,000 Thursday and 4,000 more by Friday. About 450 of the estimated 25,000 Americans in Lebanon have been evacuated to the nearby Mediterranean island of Cyprus since fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants started July 12. Wednesday's arrivals in Cyprus included dozens of U.S. college students who endured an 11-hour voyage on a dirty, crowded Norwegian-chartered car ferry to escape the violence. (Watch 'floating refugee camp' heads to Cyprus -- 2:34) Ashley Marinaccio, 20, a college student from Long Branch, New Jersey, said the ferry was like a "floating refugee camp" with "tons of flies," few places to sit or sleep, five toilets, a shortage of toilet paper and several ill passengers. "It got really dirty," Marinaccio said. "We knew that it would be over, and we were going to safety, so it was all we thought about." The ship carried 1,100 Europeans -- but also made room for 127 U.S. citizens, including the students and several American families. Marinaccio said it was it "really disappointing" that the U.S. Embassy told the students "we're assessing the situation" while others from the Netherlands, Switzerland and France had been evacuated three days earlier. Thousands of people have been shipped out of Beirut's port on cruise ships and military vessels that must pass through an Israeli naval blockade as they take people to Cyprus, about about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of Lebanon. About 800 Americans and Britons left Beirut on Wednesday aboard the Orient Queen, ....
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Mike, you said it better than I did. I was trying to be nice. I am sure we will be seeing this suffering college student on all the MSM outlets.
Sounds like she's got a double major in WHINING
Bare with me? Are there nudists in Lebanon? Is it a typical ritual to get naked at the ancient ruins? :-)
and isn't it "bear with me" instead of "bare with me"? Though with a liberal college student it's hard to say which meaning she had in mind.
Yes, someone has got to turn this into Michelle Malkin.
I just sent this to Rush....hope he reads it...
Get a job Ashley!
>>Still isn't fast enough. And why not get these people some prepaid debit cards (a la Katrina) too? /sARC<<
Shhh! If the bozos in Washington hear you, that's EXACTLY what they'll do!
:-S
LOL! I think she meant whaddafogusses.
The use of SEALs to deliver sandwiches so nobody gets too hungry during an 11-hour ferry ride takes the cake.
Despite the State Dept. warnings, I am happy that we are bailing these people out, but ENOUGH WITH THE COMPLAINING! For these people to act as if the rest of us (i.e., through our US Government) OWE them a comfortable, immediate evacuation is absolutely nuts imho.
Is the State Department going to house these people in Cyprus? If so, for how long (and will they still be camped out there a year later, a la Katrina)? Are they going to get free flights all the way back to the US? Enough is enough.
Me too. But don't worry. In two or three years, or maybe four, she'll be out in the world with her valuable college degree. Then reality will dope-slap her.
I wonder how she spells "fuggatabowtit".
maybe can someone can link her pic
http://app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060719/NEWS/607190335
Enough said.
I understand it's got to be stressful, but sheesh, what did you expect vacationing in a country crawling with terrorists that the State Dept. has issued multiple travel warnings about?? I mean, what was the purpose of this trip, being able to tell everyone at the dorm what a cool and exotic summer you had and to have a "been there" none of the rest of them have had? Spare me.
Her few years have been most unkind to her....
If you go to that page and click on the link from July 16th you can actually listen to her while she is in Lebanon. She is making a documentary about Lebanon and the people there and wants to change societys thinking about the ME. NOT ALL people living in Lebanon are terrorists etc. etc. etc.
I couldn't stand to listen to all of it.....
She sure didn't use proper verb tenses.
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