France Doubles Aid for Asian Disaster

AP ^ | Thu Dec 30, 2:32 PM ET | JOHN LEICESTER

[BIGLOOK]

Frogs pledge aid on 12/30. US aid airlift to Utapao left CONUS 12/28. US reconnaissance's of disaster areas 12/27. USS Abraham Lincoln deployed 12/28. Coca Cola donates bottled water, US drug companies donate medical supplies, US food donations....all headed to disaster areas. 12/29 US/Japan/Australia aid coalition formed. 12/30 Kofi the Magnificent returns from vacation and announces UN aid to disaster areas.

Frogs croak and the UN is a joke.

[Ginifer]

I say the French should pony up a lot more than double...after all they got millions through the OFF program.

[cfhBAMA]

[longtermmemmory]

Will french pharmacutical companies be selling drugs to the devastated?

Will french construction firms be vying for the rebuilding?

I wonder why they are pushing the anti-americanism?

follow the money.

[jb6]

They are the core of the facist EU, anti-Americanism is their first nature.

[Atlantic Friend]

"How come nobody calls THEM stingy?"

Because the French contribution is now at 57 million dollars, of which 22 are immediately available ? As for the 136,000 dollars, it was a mistake by the anchorman, the initial pledge was at 1,360,000 dollars.

Not that all these figures really matters, since the cost of the Tsunami is prone to rise as fast as the death toll, and every contributing country will have to re-assess its financial pledges accordingly.