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UN Official says US stingy in relief aid
The Washington Time ^

Posted on 12/28/2004 4:29:52 AM PST by misharu

The Bush administration yesterday pledged $15 million to Asian nations hit by a tsunami that has killed more than 22,500 people, although the United Nations' humanitarian-aid chief called the donation "stingy."

"The United States, at the president's direction, will be a leading partner in one of the most significant relief, rescue and recovery challenges that the world has ever known," said White House deputy press secretary Trent Duffy.

(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: eurotrash; humanitarianrelief; janegeland; screwtheun; sumatraquake; unitednations; usaid
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We are giving 15 million to aid the relief and we get this?! Utterly, utterly incredible. How about we give nothing after the way we are treated in the world today!
1 posted on 12/28/2004 4:29:52 AM PST by misharu
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To: admin

Please remove. Dupe post.


2 posted on 12/28/2004 4:30:53 AM PST by misharu (I've been here a while . . .you just haven't noticed me.)
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To: misharu

What they don't understand are the private relief efforts from charities (Christian and otherwise) that will be added to this sum. Other countries that don't have this ethic woven into their social fabric cannot understand it, think it all has to come from the government.


3 posted on 12/28/2004 4:32:47 AM PST by Angry Enough
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The UN fails to understand charity begins at home. America for Americans we should never kiss the hands that will slaps us.


4 posted on 12/28/2004 4:43:27 AM PST by No Surrender No Retreat
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To: Angry Enough
When I see what other countries are donating then I will decide whether this is STINGY or not. What unbelievable nerve this UN clown has calling US STINGY! We do more for other countries than any four countries combined and this is what we get for it. There is a lot to be said for isolationism.
5 posted on 12/28/2004 4:43:40 AM PST by asp1
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To: misharu

Stingy, huh? This from the agency at the center of the Oil-for-Food scandal - one of the worst scandals of our time.

Stingy!? From the agency that sat on its hands as Rwandans committed genocide against one another?

Stingy!!?? From the agency that sided with France, Germany, Mexico and Hans Blix about Saddam's WMD and believed that it was perfectly ok for him to murder, rape and torture as many Iraqis as he could?

Somehow, I don't think I want or need any moral approval for the aid we are providing from anyone associated with the UN.


6 posted on 12/28/2004 4:52:22 AM PST by DustyMoment (Repeal CFR NOW!!)
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To: misharu

The UN and the ACLU two anti-American organs created by
the Democrats to destroy the United States. They are corrupt in all their ways.But we are told we must pay and
pay and pay yet again for the priveledge of their corruption


7 posted on 12/28/2004 4:53:14 AM PST by StonyBurk
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To: misharu

Why is it that whenever these countries who vilify us, when they get in trouble, are immediately whining at our door for assistance?


8 posted on 12/28/2004 4:54:36 AM PST by tkathy (Ban all religious head garb.)
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UN Official says US stingy in relief aid

How about the 15 BILLION to Africa to fight AIDS?

Hey, Useless UN...STFU!

9 posted on 12/28/2004 4:55:15 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
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To: Angry Enough

i'm calling my congressman, senator and the white house and telling them to send more money, for relief, by ending our payments to the UN!! That should make this tax and spend UN official happy.


10 posted on 12/28/2004 4:56:06 AM PST by q_an_a
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To: misharu

It is obvious the United Nothings only want American participation because we have and provide most of the money the UN needs to operate. Time to get out and let the Ungrateful Nobodys fend for themselves.

We don't give enough money????????? What an insult!!!!


11 posted on 12/28/2004 4:56:22 AM PST by o_zarkman44
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To: q_an_a

There ya' go!


12 posted on 12/28/2004 4:57:44 AM PST by Angry Enough
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To: q_an_a

Right on! Now THAT is a great idea!!


13 posted on 12/28/2004 4:59:30 AM PST by misharu (I've been here a while . . .you just haven't noticed me.)
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To: StonyBurk
"The UN and the ACLU two anti-American organs created by the Democrats Socialists to destroy the United States."

One slight correction.

14 posted on 12/28/2004 4:59:41 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: misharu

Giving $15m to the UN to administer aid to the victims is the same as flushing the money down the toilet. How can we trust them after the oil for food scam? to hell with the UN.


15 posted on 12/28/2004 5:04:25 AM PST by KenmcG414
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To: misharu

Damn I hate the UN and all its works.....

How the hell do we get out of that cesspool!?!?!?!?


16 posted on 12/28/2004 5:22:56 AM PST by An Old Marine (Freedom isn't Free)
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Ain't that the truth! Brian Kilmeade was interviewing Colin Powell on Fox & Friends this morning. They were talking about the $15M in aid already promised for relief. The UN came up in a discussion of administering assistance. I wanted Brian to ask him how we could possibly trust the UN with any monies after the world class oil-for-food milking. But alas, he didn't. Someone sure needs to.


17 posted on 12/28/2004 5:26:13 AM PST by Quilla
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To: An Old Marine

Here's a contact site on the UN if you want to send this dork your thoughts: http://ochaonline.un.org/contactus.asp


18 posted on 12/28/2004 5:27:00 AM PST by Elkiejg (Merry CHRISTmas to all - especially to our troops and Pres. Bush.)
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...and how much foreign aid did the US receive following multiple hurricane hits in Florida this year?

I can't remember...but I know the UN insured massive relieve efforts.

19 posted on 12/28/2004 5:29:54 AM PST by NeonKnight
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To: misharu

Sent this morning:

To: Jan Egeland
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs
and Emergency Relief Coordinator

I want you to be quiet.
I want you to take a few billion of the embezzled Oil-For-Food dollars and use it to support the tsunami victims.
I want you to be the FIRST to act when there is a disaster, not the first to shoot off your mouth.
I want you to stop slapping around the USA. No country on the face of the earth has freed more people, saved more lives, fed more people, or improved the standard of living across the globe.
All you do at the UN is talk, correct the grammar, shoot your mouth off, spend money, live it up, and lie to the world.
I want you and your ilk to get out of the US. You have worn out your welcome.


20 posted on 12/28/2004 5:30:26 AM PST by NetValue (Please call me a "values voter"....please.)
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