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U.S. and BP slow to accept Dutch expertise

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Thursday, June 10, 2010 10:52 AM

AURAPTOR

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Three days after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch government offered to help.\

It was willing to provide ships outfitted with oil-skimming booms, and it proposed a plan for building sand barriers to protect sensitive marshlands.

The response from the Obama administration and BP, which are coordinating the cleanup: “The embassy got a nice letter from the administration that said, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,'” said Geert Visser, consul general for the Netherlands in Houston.

Now, almost seven weeks later, as the oil spewing from the battered well spreads across the Gulf and soils pristine beaches and coastline, BP and our government have reconsidered.

U.S. ships are being outfitted this week with four pairs of the skimming booms airlifted from the Netherlands and should be deployed within days. Each pair can process 5 million gallons of water a day, removing 20,000 tons of oil and






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Thursday, June 10, 2010 11:55 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Venezuela probably offered help again, too. ;)

Mike

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Thursday, June 10, 2010 12:21 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


" probably " ?


If they had, Barry would have snapped that offer up in a nano-second.

Anything to help out a fellow comrade, right ?


Now, how about growing a pair and addressing this -

“The embassy got a nice letter from the administration that said, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,'” said Geert Visser, consul general for the Netherlands in Houston.

Barry sent a letter, saying " thanks, but no thanks ".

Like I said.... " I got this ! "



No, Mr President.... you don't.







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Thursday, June 10, 2010 12:50 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


"Grow a pair..." Ironic words coming from a self-professed tea-bagger, eh? It seems to be your new mantra.

I don't know why - national machismo, it seems - but America just HAS to turn down foreign aid. It's as if it would be an admission of weakness to accept foreign help in any of our own natural (OR man-made) disasters.

Last time we refused foreign aid in the Gulf, thousands of Americans died as a direct result. It's what we do, it seems. Damned if I can figure out why.

Mike

On this matter, make no mistake. I want you to go fuck yourself long and hard, as well as anyone who agrees with you. I got no use for you. --Auraptor

This vile and revolting malice - this is their true colors, always has been, you're just seeing it without the mask of justifications and excuses they hide it behind, is all. Make sure to remember it once they put the mask back on. --Fremdfirma

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Thursday, June 10, 2010 1:11 PM

HERO


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Originally posted by AURaptor:
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Three days after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch government offered to help.\


Not sure how boatloads of wooden shoes would help...

H

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