Aid workers fear Burma cyclone deaths will top 50,000 (millions homeless)

Times UK ^ | 5-6-08

[nancyvideo]

Foreign aid workers in Burma have concluded that as many as 50,000 people died in Saturday’s cyclone, and two to three million are homeless, in a disaster whose scale invites comparison with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

[humblegunner]

Actual title:

Aid workers fear Burma cyclone deaths will top 50,000

[The_Victor]

Lord have mercy.

[jrestrepo]

So is Kanye West going to go on nation TV and say that Bush does not like people from Myanmar?

Because I am sure that it his fault some how...

[rightwingintelligentsia]

This is extremely tragic regardless of the precise death toll. However, I am told that sometimes aid workers tend to inflate the numbers in order to maximize international aid contributions.

[sam_paine]

So is Kanye West going to go on nation TV and say that Bush does not like people from Myanmar?

Yknow. 50% of people in this country (those who voted Gore and Kerry and will vote Hillary Obama) would be bitching about the govt not giving them enough help/aid/assistance/free-cheese even if we had a full-on communist govt.

I suppose that's the nicest thing I can say about them. Though they probably won't say much bad about the commies over there who won't let the USS aircraft carriers provide emergency relief.

[Soliton]

i’m still googling for “aid from Myanmar for Katrina victims”

[yankeedame]

i’m still googling for “aid from Myanmar for Katrina victims”

And while you're there go ahead and google "actual international disaster aid from OPEC countries".

[Wavrnr10]

Somebody PLEASE let me know what plan of action Iran, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia and Palestine are taking against this tragedy.

[ishabibble]

God bless Laura Bush for standing up for those poor people in Burma!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/06/2236366.htm

[CPOSharky]

Tsunamis, earthquakes, cyclones. What does Allah have against this area?

[iopscusa]

WTH, I'll do it...now GWB has his wife trying to give away the taxpayer's money, sheez...please, just shut up, the daxx Compassionate Socialism from the Republicans make me sick!
Mrs Bush says the US is becoming increasingly frustrated and impatient with Burma's leaders. Sounds a lot like what happened when the US became increasingly frustrated with Yugoslavia & Gaza and just managed to install Islamisist.

[gracesdad]

“Tsunamis, earthquakes, cyclones. What does Allah have against this area?”

Since 89 percent of Myanmar is Buddhist, I’d guess they don’t think Allah figures too heavily in this.

[MrPiper]

I am told that sometimes aid workers tend to inflate the numbers in order to maximize international aid contributions.

Needs repeating.

[texas booster]

Need prayers for a family friend missing in Burma.

He's from the Denver area and lived in Texas before moving to Thailand to work in that area.

Really good guy.