Is the Burma Dictatorship's Refusal of Aid Similar to the Bush Regime's Refusal to Accept Aid for Katrina?

When Hurricane Katrina ripped through the southern United States in August 2005, the authorities were overwhelmed and the governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, appealed to the international community for emergency medical aid. The Cuban government immediately offered assistance to New Orleans and to the states of Mississippi and Alabama, also affected by the storm, and promised that within 48 hours 1,600 doctors, trained to deal with such catastrophes, would arrive with all the necessary equipment plus 36 tonnes of medical supplies. This offer, and another made directly to President George Bush, went unanswered. In the catastrophe at least 1,800 people, most of them poor, died for lack of aid and treatment.

I think it demonstrates that both countries don't take care of their people.

I think you are smoking some of that quasi-legal California weed. Castro would have used any persons sent to try to establish a spy network. After all, whe Brother Raoul took over a few weeks ago, he took the big step of allowing Cubans to own microwave ovens and sell their old Chevrolets secondhand. Aid from Cuba is like stealing food from a starving child.

We didn't want Cuban spies or good Cuban PR, and Myanmar (not Burma for a very long time now) doesn't want our spies, and we would send them because we should send them. Former Pakistani Nuclear Scientists with ties to al Qaeda and Khan's proliferation network have been there working on some unnamed project since we asked for their extradition from Pakistan in 2001.

Blanco didn't do crap, so quit spreading ignorant BS. All she had to do was ask our government and it would have been there, but she was to ******* stupid and arrogant to ask for help.