The "Great Satan" strikes again...

US military moves in troops, ships to aid quake-hit Haiti



Thu Jan 14, 2:33 pm ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The first contingent of thousands of US troops headed to Haiti Thursday as the military mobilized an array of ships, planes and helicopters to provide emergency aid after a massive earthquake.

A company of about 100 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division were expected in quake-hit Haiti by the evening, with the remainder of their 3,500-strong brigade due to arrive by Sunday, Pentagon officials said.

"They will provide humanitarian assistance and relief and security as required," army spokesman Gary Tallman told AFP.

More than 2,000 Marines at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina were due to board three large amphibious ships to reach Haiti by Sunday or Monday, Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman said.


BT comment: If only the commander in chief who has sent the aid to assist the tragedy stricken Haitians could be more supportive of the country he represents. To extol the virtues of Amercan exceptionalism. For all of the grief that America takes from other nations, we are always first on the scene to assist. Whether it be boots on the ground or the almighty charitable dollar. We are there to help when disaster strikes.
Unfortunately, in between disasters Obama feels the need to denegrate his own country. That we are selfish, we are greedy, that we are self-serving. Never in the history of the world has there been one country so blessed and so willing to bless. America is the last best hope. For what you ask? For freedom. For prosperity. For liberty. For justice. If only Barack Obama(and all progressive liberals) felt the same way. He is from the blame America first crowd. He stands with those who have enjoyed the opportunites our great nation extends to it's citizens and for some obscene reason regards it with great scorn.
It's hard for those of us who were born and grew up in a free country to imagine anything other than the liberty we know so well. May we thank God everyday for the freedom we enjoy and do all within our power to preserve and protect the Constitution which guarantees those rights. And remember just as our founders realized, that those freedoms come from God Himself. Not from any politician or governing body.
May America continue to be that last, great hope in this turbulent world. That shining city on a hill. As an American I ask you... where else are you gonna go?