Posted on 12/30/2004 10:01:15 AM PST by Keith Burwell
400k is the projection after adding in the 2 towns that sound like they were utterly destroyed. The official number is already around 140k confirmed dead.
Sad, sad, sad. I have trouble reading many of the stories.
This is Indonesia ALONE. This is not including the death toll in Sri Lanka and elsewhere.
Don't forget, with the spectre of disease to follow, the numbers could easily mount one million either directly or indirectly killed by this tsunami.
Horror of horrors.
Because we're better than Islamonazis.
We're human beings. The victims of the tsunami are human beings. We have the capability, and it's the proper, Christian thing to do.
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Merry Christmas, Satan. Feeling the schadenfreude, eh?
Aceh, I think, was the closest populated area to the epicenter of that 9.0 earthquake, less than 200 miles away...so they got the double whammy, the biggest earthquake in 40 years AND the tsunami.
}:-)4
Understand and share the sentiment (kinda) but we know what's right and do it.
Call OBL to see if it's okay to take aid from the "infidels".
How long before they are protesting in the streets for us to leave. How long before their suicide bombers target our men?
Don't think that our humanitarian aid is going to change anything, it's not.
I live in Singapore and we felt the tremor..I am originally from Los Angeles, as is my mom who was visiting.
I got on the computer and well...
We have friends, good friends with children, vacationing in Phuket....we have not heard from them.
We are devasted in Singapore and we know that we will never be the same.
Pray for us.
Pray for us.
Pray for the dying, the living, and the dead.
Since Indonesia is the largest Muslim nation in the world, do you suppose Saudi Arabia, et al., will move a little of the oil wealth they currently invest in Madrassas to relief aid for their devastated, fellow Muslim country?
Yes...Every one of these poor souls was a "Islamopig". Even the children and non-muslims!!
That wave hit the wrong people.
& how different does that make you from them???
Most Indonesians are pragmatic Muslims who want to get on with their lives who follow a more palatable form of Islam,unlike their cousins in the Persian Gulf & Pakistan(BTW,aren't those very nations American allies!!)
Yep-a lot of Arab nations are sending aid.Saudi Arabia,Iran,the UAE etc have all pledged millions.
huh??
Please speak for yourself.
One doesn't have to be Christian in order to help others and/or NOT act like a pig on a message board.
Our prayers have been lifted daily. It is overwhelming to see the tragedy of all these ruined lives. It's too late to pray for the dead. Money is nothing, when you see how quickly life can end... but now, many of the survivors have little family left, as well.
God will comfort, and God will provide, through His....
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