a mouse-click away

idiots. the bush people are just plain dumb. do they even understand what’s happening in Lebanon? and this is the republican party that some Americans are even thinking about voting for?



In Beirut, Embassy Tells Stranded Americans: Evacuation Is a Mouse-Click Away
By Justin Rood - July 19, 2006, 11:58 AM
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001164.php

Lebanon: Telephone service is spotty -- both land lines and cellular networks are on-again, off-again in war-struck areas. Some even say that cellular telephone networks are down entirely. Electricity is out in parts of Beirut and southern Lebanon, probably as a result of Israeli bombing runs which targeted civilian infrastructure, including power plants and transformers.

An estimated 25,000 Americans were in Lebanon when the bombing began, according to CNN. A couple hundred appear to have made it out -- and the State Department says it plans on evacuating "as many as" 2,400 by Thursday. The rest -- by my count, more than 23,000 -- are being told to sit tight as the Israeli bombing continues, wait by their phones for a call, and check the embassy Web site for more information. So says undersecretary of state Nicholas Burns: "We have an open line to all American citizens. We're in touch with them by Web site."

Yes, Burns assured CNN, "[The evacuation is] very well thought out."

Heckuva job, Condi?