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Title: Obama: Skimmers? We don't need no stinkin' skimmers
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Bluegrass Pundit
URL Source: http://www.bluegrasspundit.com/2010 ... d-down-oil-skimming-ships.html
Published: Jun 12, 2010
Author: Bluegrass Pundit
Post Date: 2010-06-12 19:53:49 by Happy Quanzaa
Keywords: Obama, dunce, dummy, doofus, dumbass Democrat
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Obama Turned Down Oil Skimming Ships From The Dutch Government
Three days after the spill, the Dutch government offered oil skimming ships and booms to assist with the clean up. The Obama administration turned down the request. President Obama's stumbling response to this ecological disaster has been shameful and proves he lacks the executive experience to be President. In late May, President Obama said,
- "Those who think we were either slow on the response or lacked urgency, don't know the facts..."
The excerpt posted below proves that statement wasn't true.
The Houston Chronicle reported:
- 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 sludge.
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Obama turned down : Canada, the UK, France, Spain, Sweden, Netherlands, all nations with advanced tech Oil skimmers.
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Toss: ADL,CAIR and the Vatican into the pit they belong in.
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