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.... Even Burmese dissident groups criticized the timing of the administration's rhetorical onslaught against the junta â;; declaring that it made getting rapid relief to the desperately needy that much more difficult. According to the Washington Post, exiled Burmese political analyst Aung Naing Oo called Laura Bush's verbal harangue "totally and utterly inappropriate. She is trying to score political points out of people's disaster." Similarly, the newspaper also quotes Thant Myint-U, a former United Nations official and Burmese historian, as saying, "the problem is that everything, including aid, has been politicized, with suspicions on all sides." In response to the administration's verbal barrage, a Burmese government spokesman defended the junta's storm warning, request for international help, and provision of boats and helicopters.
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He noted that the government had issued a cyclone warning two days before the storm, and retorted that "what we are doing is better than the Bush administration response to the Katrina storm in 2005, if you compare the resources of the two countries." Ouch!
So as with U.S. policy toward Saddam Hussein's Iraq, administration attempts to score points in its campaign of global democratization against despotic regimes are unfortunately likely to result in much needless loss of life.
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