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SofaKingLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 12:25 AM
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Saigon? - psst. any FEMA people GET THE FK in here!
President Ford ordered the largest post-World War II evacuation of U.S. personnel in 1975, when a fleet of U.S. military helicopters airlifted 1,373 Americans and 5,595 South Vietnamese from Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport and the U.S. embassy to U.S. ships offshore in a 19-hour operation as North Vietnamese forces stormed into Saigon.

http://www.dehai.org/archives/dehai_news_archive/may02/0450.html

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LosinIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 12:33 AM
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1. there are still military helicopters here in the US at Army bases that
could be used to evacuate these people out of there. These conditions just scream for a natural tragedy to turn into a criminal one. There are empty or near empty military bases where these people could be housed. We have both the technological and financial means to get these people to safety. Now the question remains, does this administration have the moral means to save the people of New Orleans?
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lumpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 01:01 AM
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4. That is what I have been wondering.
This should have been ordered by our esteemed Comm.in Chief.
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EC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 12:40 AM
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2. I was thinking of this too
This afternoon I was really flashing back to watching the Saigon evac on TV and thinking why isn't this happening now?
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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-05 12:55 AM
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3. We know why. Bushler wants brown people & Democrats to die. n/t
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