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I recently found out that the red cross has been providing first aid training & kits to the Taliban.......?

I have been a red cross blood donor for 11 years donating 3 times per year. I am also a US Army veteran. I have notified the red cross that I will no longer be supporting them through any type of donation. If one us soldier dies from a bullet fired by a red cross saved Taliban soldier it will be one too many.
I ask you to set partisan politics aside most of us love America & know someone who has served. maybe a friend or a family member. show them you support them. show them you care by not supporting the red cross. Tell the red cross you will not support treason.

will you join me?
I have picked a side though and most Americans have as well. we do not side with terrorist nor will we help those who aid terrorist. The red cross can call what they are doing anything they want. I'll call it by it's true name. treason.

Public Comments

1. didn't you read the brochure? The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an international humanitarian movement dedicated to preventing and alleviating human suffering, without any discrimination based on nationality, race, sex, religious beliefs, class or political opinions.

2. This is the problem with this One World Government junk no one knows what is going on in this world because all people seem to be tolerating everyone else. Supporting the enemy is treason.

No one seems to have a heart to protect their own like you are doing. For sure, if the Red Cross is supporting the Taliban and Osama Bin laden then I want nothing to do with them. But how can you tell when the UN is involved in everything. This world is a mess because of the One World Government people who are setting up for us all to become One. Two people can't walk together unless they agree. I don't agree with the Taliban. I don't agree with Osama Bin Laden. I don't agree with Islamic Muslims. I don't tolerate everything or everyone. God doesn't either.

3. Really? I had no idea this was going on! Screw the Red Cross. Thought their mandate was to ease HUMAN suffering, not that of mad dog terrorists who want to die anyway.
I say we give them their wish!
And yeah, I guess we should boycott the Red Cross financially and otherwise. No way I want even the remotest chance that my blood ends up in some Taliban caveman savage!
Edit- @Mady. Yes, absolutely, let them dirty their hands wherever they want. Just don't ask me to help 'em! I have buddies I served with still fighting over there. If some Taliban flea factory has to suffer for them to live, I have no problem with that.

4. And they're also using a huge portion of the money donated to pay themselves. A person who's suffering is still suffering no matter what don't forget that.

5. Aw, come on man. The red cross was made to help people who can't afford medical help, among other goals. They are a Non-Governmental Organization: not an American company helping in the "war on terror". You ask to set aside partisan politics, while making a very partisan argument.

No matter who's at war with whom, everybody deserves the same amount of care. It's the same with Doctors Without Borders, would you forbid them to treat certain patients because of their race, beliefs or nationality?