[trumandogz]

I understand this, but what about the getting to our Citizens first. This family was so frustrated that they had to turn to the media for help.

I don't think the rescuers in Haiti that have come from dozens of countries should give priority to looking for Americans and there cannot be a procedure whereby American rescuers save only Americans and Mexican rescuers save only Mexicans etc.

And when digging through the rubble, they cannot pass over Haitians and other nationalities in an effort to only extract the corpses of Americans.

Finally, the urgency to remove the bodies is not so that families in America can have proper funerals, but rather so that the corpses do not spread more disease.

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they cannot pass over Haitians and other nationalities in an effort to only extract the corpses of Americans

Since they pulled survivors form the Montana it wasn't a given they'd be corpses.

As to passing over other nationalities to get to our American Citizens.....Why not?!

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Then tell us that the US embassy did not direct its first efforts to finding US embassy employees and that the UN did not spend its first efforts looking for UN employees.

Three Americans arrived in Baltimore this week from the hotel Montana- they are alive because the French led rescue operations there that saved them.