Berlusconi: Haiti's rescuer

So, Berlusconi sent the second most powerful man in Italy, Mr. Bertolaso, his right hand in civil protection to “inspect” the rescue efforts in Haiti.. Among the may things Bertolaso did for Berlusconi, was Iraq (Italian Red Cross), the garbage crisis in Napoli, the G8 planning and the earthquake in the Abruzzi, early 2009.

His conclusions were clear: lack of co-ordination, too many US military, too much promotion by all rescue agencies, too much emphasis on boats that have no “link” with the territory, he would have done all this differently.

Little detail Ms. Clinton and the Italian UN representative pointed out: Haiti is not the Abruzzi, Haiti is poor, in Abruzzi there were less than 300 deaths, in Haiti more than 150,000 and may-be more, Abruzzi in the middle of a developed country, Port au Prince is in the middle of one of the poorest countries in the world. And how is it that Italy itself is sending a military boat if these are useless ? In Haiti there are at least 370,000 people who lost their house, in Abruzzi less than 30,000.
In Italy there is infrastructure, in Haiti there is none and the little that was, was destroyed.

But Bertolaso could not care less, he is like his boss, he says anything crosses his mind so that people talk of him.

Ms Clinton was right saying that what Bertolaso had said had the value of those talks people make in bars on a Monday about foot-ball matches. But did she ever realized that this is exactly what Berlusconi does: bar talks with illiterate people.

A clown, full of himself, serving a clown. But I promise you: soon, on the (in)famous web site to support Berlusconi’s claim for a Nobel Peace Prize we will see that it is thanks to Bertolaso, sent and supported by Berlusconi, that rescues efforts in Haiti were successful.

Berlusconi and Bertolaso do not even have the decency to respect the tragedy of one of the poorest countries in the world.

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