[Ichneumon]

Do you want to know what the definition of ungrateful is? It is being clearly spelled out for us in the world's response – or rather, its lack of response – to the carnage wrought by Hurricane Katrina earlier this week.

Ahem:

Australia donates $10m

UN offers to help overwhelmed US cope with Katrina

Excerpt from that first story:

Australia joins more than 20 countries - even poor Honduras - in offering help. Australia joins more than 20 countries - even poor Honduras - in offering help. [...] The State Department said offers so far had come from Belgium, Canada, Russia, Japan, France, Germany, Britain, China, Australia, Jamaica, Honduras, Greece, Venezuela, the Organisation of American States, NATO, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Greece, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, South Korea, Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

It's stories this that make me understand why some folks call WND, "WingNut Daily"...

[KillBill]

Didn't the US decline Russian aid? And didn't they not allow a team from Vancouver entry into the US?

I think that this time WND is full of shit, man. Sorry.

[DB]

The Aussies stepped up to the plate.

I was cranken on'em for sending to "managers"... But today they've announced $10 million in aid. That is helpful. Thank You!

[Joe Boucher]

I'm going to stop being mean to just the french and start being surly to all foreigners that I cross paths with in tourist destination Florida.

[HAL9000]

This sort of sloppy, inaccurate reporting is why I don't waste time reading WND anymore.

[BykrBayb]

I was fully prepared to post this file all over Free Republic, in anticipation of our "allies" snubbing us. Some of them have, but we can't exactly claim they all have. Did anyone mention the offer from Sweden?

Gordon Sinclair - The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)

[laconic]

Russia offered help on the first day.

[Xargoth]

1- One must realize that US is the richest country of the world far far richer than the World's second..

2- US has the biggest army and police forces in the world with
the strongest mobilization capacity..

3- The oil prices went sky high and US is the one who controls
oil in the world. And countries that rely on Oil are really at the edge of an economic crises..

4- Americans IMHO should really stop shooting at rescue teams with their automatic rifles and they really should stop trying to shoot down helicopters with sniper rifles..

[Clive]

The second comes from Ontario, Canada. Yes, that's right – just that lone province, not the whole of the Canadian central government."

WRONG

Canada as a whole has offered whatever the US asks for. General Hillier has put contingency plans in effect to respond to US requests.

Canadian electrical crews have started moving south. This is routine when a distribution emergency happens anywhere in North America.

British Columbia was the first to react, allocating urban search and rescue teams which the US has yet to accept.

The Prime Minister has already been on the telephone to the President.

But the US has to ask. Troops simply cannot cross interational boundaries unless asked by the receiving country to do so.

The US has yet to accept Canadian offers of help.

[podkane]

Apparently, many countries tried to offer aid immediately, Bush seemed to rebuff it:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9161198/

I think he is now changed his mind and is asking for help...almost everyone has offered..

[muir_redwoods]

There is aid and offers of aid coming in from all over. Just like those of us who don't live in the Gulf area, it took awhile for the magnitude to sink in. Aid from all over is on it's way and, I think, it is petty and mean to complain about anyone's level of generosity.

[freeangel]

Save for later

[WhiteGuy]

Hey, world: Thanks for nothing.

Mr. Dougherty is correct.

One might have expected the grateful iraqi people to pledge a few million barrels of oil to help out............

[Budgie]

European countries were on Thursday preparing to release emergency stockpiles of petrol as the US confirmed that some refineries hit by Hurricane Katrina would remain shut for several months.

Earlier US officials had estimated the closures at only one to two weeks.

Officials from member governments of the International Energy Agency, the energy watchdog of industrialised countries, said they were now waiting only for the US to agree to such a measure.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/baac872c-1b0c-11da-a117-00000e2511c8,_i_rssPage=80fdaff6-cbe5-11d7-81c6-0820abe49a01.html

[Living Free in NH]

I find it interesting the the MSM is reporting that "many, many" countries have stepped up to help out. Yet when even more countries than this stepped up to invade Iraq it was reported as a near singlehanded attack by the USA, with the vast majority of the world's countries strongly opposed to the actions of the USA.

[moose2004]

By the way, has the UN offered help?

[Cyber Liberty]

I personally don't care if anybody sends us help. We don't help out in order to get paid back, we just help out because it's the right thing to do.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Perhaps John Dougherty (just another political hack reporter) should actually learn what's happening before commenting on it. Of course, he is a reporter.

[drlevy88]

He's a little early to the party.

[firequarrel]

So what?...as a conservative the last thing I'm going to whine about is receiving help from other people. That's what Democrats do. And that's why New Orleans has been such a disaster.