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Former US president Clinton urges coordinated aid effort for south Asia
AFP News / Yahoo News ^ | Tue Dec 28, 2004 | LONDON (AFP)

Posted on 12/28/2004 12:19:52 PM PST by Mo1

LONDON (AFP) - Former US president Bill Clinton (news - web sites) urged a coordinated effort to provide relief to the countries stricken by the tidal wave that killed tens of thousands across South Asia.

"It is really important that somebody take the lead in this," he told BBC Radio 4's Today program.

"I think one of the problems is when everybody takes responsibility it's almost like no one's responsibility."

Clinton said individual countries should target aid at specific areas.

"Maybe what we should do is get countries or groups of countries to take responsibility for specific countries that were hurt," he said.

"I think if you did that you would have a better chance of seeing responsibilities fulfilled even when the emotional tug wanes."

The United Nations (news - web sites) on Monday said that the biggest disaster relief operation ever staged would be needed for the Asian tsunami (sea surge) victims as medicines and other emergency supplies started pouring into the worst-hit areas.

UN disaster relief coordinator Jan Egeland said the cost of the devastation will be in the "billions of dollars".


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clinton; humanitarianrelief; sumatraquake; tsunami; x42
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1 posted on 12/28/2004 12:19:53 PM PST by Mo1
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To: OXENinFLA

I guess he couldn't resist in putting his in 2 cents huh?


2 posted on 12/28/2004 12:20:50 PM PST by Mo1 (Should be called Oil for Fraud and not Oil for Food)
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To: Mo1

Well, I for one am glad that Clinton came out and said this, because now people and nations will actually start to help out...

Thanks, Bill, for caring!


3 posted on 12/28/2004 12:21:04 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little ass)
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To: Mo1

Thank you Captain "Well DUH".


please please please just go away....please!


4 posted on 12/28/2004 12:22:12 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Yeah...what did we ever do without him???

/sarcasm

5 posted on 12/28/2004 12:22:29 PM PST by BossLady
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To: Mo1

Can Carter be far behind?


6 posted on 12/28/2004 12:22:29 PM PST by G.Mason ("It's easy to curb the freedoms of others when you see no immediate impact on your own." – M. Forbes)
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To: BossLady

No kidding.


7 posted on 12/28/2004 12:22:51 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little ass)
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To: Mo1

Thanks for pointing out the obvious, Bill. Always one to jump in front of a parade, aren't you?


8 posted on 12/28/2004 12:23:01 PM PST by randog (What the....?!)
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To: Mo1

Good grief, who cares what Bubba has to say. He is irrelevent.


9 posted on 12/28/2004 12:23:02 PM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: All

If I were Kofi, I'd.....


10 posted on 12/28/2004 12:23:26 PM PST by bugs_dallas
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To: Mo1

The sociopath just couldn't resist injecting himself into the story. I don't give a damn what former felon-in-chief Clinton has to say about anything.


11 posted on 12/28/2004 12:23:32 PM PST by MisterRepublican ("I must go. I must be elusive.")
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To: Mo1

Clinton should get assigned to Phuket.


12 posted on 12/28/2004 12:24:34 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (The Sage of Chappaqua.)
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To: Mo1
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13 posted on 12/28/2004 12:24:35 PM PST by OXENinFLA
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To: Charles Henrickson

Then, someone should whack his Phi Phi...


14 posted on 12/28/2004 12:25:17 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks (I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little ass)
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To: Mo1
I guess he couldn't resist in putting his in 2 cents huh?

Nah. I'd bet money that the MSM's mantra of "WWWJCD" is in play here (What Would William Jefferson Clinton Do?"

Clinton was probably off trolling for tail when some "intrepid" journalist asked him about it.

APf

15 posted on 12/28/2004 12:25:34 PM PST by APFel (Humanity has a poor track record of predicting its own future.)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

He fancies himself the President of the World.


16 posted on 12/28/2004 12:26:01 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (The Sage of Chappaqua.)
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To: Mo1

Well, he was fairly good at coordinating oral office activities with Monica...


17 posted on 12/28/2004 12:26:22 PM PST by pookie18 (Clinton Happens!)
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To: Mo1

"Me! ME!!! Look at MEEEEEEEEEE!"


18 posted on 12/28/2004 12:26:38 PM PST by cyncooper
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To: MisterRepublican

Why isn't the Impeached One taking the first plane to Sri Lanka, rolling up his sleeves and helping out himself?

As usual, it'll be the US along with a few other Christian nations shouldering all the burden, with the libs and the UN throwing insults. It's been this way for a lot of decades.


19 posted on 12/28/2004 12:26:54 PM PST by wrathof59 (semper ubi sub ubi)
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To: G.Mason

Will we get a story on what Gerald Ford or GHW Bush think?


20 posted on 12/28/2004 12:27:08 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (The Sage of Chappaqua.)
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