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AP: Somalia famine aid stolen; UN investigating
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Posted on 08/15/2011 12:16:57 PM PDT by traumer

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To: traumer

This needs to be investigated just long enough to determine that it is in Somalia.

That’s just the way it is going to be, there. If you really want to distribute food, you are going to have to figure out a way to distribute it through the local clan-based social system. Fighting that is like trying to bail out the ocean with a spoon.


21 posted on 08/15/2011 12:55:23 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be a slave)
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To: traumer

Well here’s a huge suprise. Do any of the aid shipments ever reach their intended destination? I am under the impression that most of the provisions are intercepted by nefarious groups and used for their own gain. And really—what is the UN going to do about it?


22 posted on 08/15/2011 12:57:43 PM PDT by MNGal
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To: traumer

SURPRISE SURPRISE....... NOT!!!


23 posted on 08/15/2011 1:00:10 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: dfwgator

I don’t think it is one little bit different in Haiti, either.


24 posted on 08/15/2011 1:01:43 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: traumer

Ya know, there’s something to be said for Colonialism.


25 posted on 08/15/2011 1:05:15 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Murray / Baucus / Kerry / Upton / Clyburn? I've had better picks come out of my nose.)
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To: traumer

The Somali hell hole (no longer deserving of even being called a country), like Haiti and a few more places, is a lost cause.


26 posted on 08/15/2011 1:06:15 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: oh8eleven

Ah, Sam, we miss you!


27 posted on 08/15/2011 1:07:26 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Murray / Baucus / Kerry / Upton / Clyburn? I've had better picks come out of my nose.)
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To: traumer

How did I know that was going to happen?


28 posted on 08/15/2011 1:08:56 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: Steely Tom

Its for sure the culture and wonder how much got sidelined at DNC and nobama buddies.


29 posted on 08/15/2011 1:44:19 PM PDT by dusttoyou ("Progressives" are wee-weeing all over themselves, Foc nobama)
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To: traumer

This is what typically happens. Just another way the libtards prop up dictators to help advance their cause...


30 posted on 08/16/2011 3:28:41 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Haiku Guy

Read a 1960’s book, “The Ugly American”. This sort of diversion is WHY these programs exist.


31 posted on 08/16/2011 3:32:02 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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