Seeing that picture of the man with the bin Laden shirt makes me much less enthusiastic about the money being spent.
I'm sure the little worm from the UN will be up for a Nobel prize for "prodding the great world powers (aka The US) to give to the needy" or somesuch garbage.
It just pisses me off to no end how other countries knock the U.S. all the time. Namely, France. We saved their ass, and now they hate us.
The U.S. helps everyone. We should be revered.
I looked over at Amazon's website and the total for their South Asia relief fund (Red Cross) is over 3 million dollars on its way to 4 million dollars. How about that for stingy. America WILL lead the relief effort and get pilloried for it by all the usual suspects.
"Speaking publicly for the first time since Sunday's Indian Ocean tsunami, Bush told reporters that the United States, India, Japan and Australia are forming an international coalition to provide immediate relief and rescue assistance, as well as longer-term help with rebuilding"
ATTENTION! KOFI BABBA AND THE FORTY THIEVES! YOU HAVE JUST BEEN DECLARED IRRELEVANT!
(Would the last one out of the UN building please turn out the lights - OH! and before you go...here's a few parking tickets....)
I'd prefer to see relief funded with massive amounts of private donations. I've given to the Red Cross and Salvation Army.
Perhaps have a couple of concerts to raise donations. Bush could help organize a "Red State" concert with country music stars, and he could appoint Slick Willard to organize the Rock 'n Pop concert.
Yes we will give until it hurts and then the world will love us even more...right? (sarcasm)