This joker comes to mind...
Posted on 09/04/2005 9:00:37 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Kuwait Pledges $500M for Hurricane Relief Updated: Sunday, Sep. 4, 2005 - 11:26 AM
KUWAIT CITY (AP) - The oil-rich Persian Gulf state of Kuwait said Sunday it will donate $500 million in aid to U.S. relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
The offer is the largest known put forward since the hurricane ravaged Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama and follows a $100 million aid donation from the emir of a Mideast neighbor, Qatar.
Kuwait's energy minister said his country would provide "oil products that the disaster-stricken states need in addition to other humanitarian aid."
"It's our duty as Kuwaitis to stand by our friends to lighten the humanitarian misery and as a payback for the many situations during which Washington helped us through the significant relations between the two friendly countries," Sheik Ahmed Fahd Al Ahmed Al Sabah said in a statement carried by Kuwait's official news agency, KUNA.
Kuwait is one of America's closest Mideast allies and owes its 1991 liberation from Iraqi occupation forces to a U.S.-led coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's army out.
Kuwait and Qatar's donations came as the Egypt-based 22-member Arab League called on Arab nations to provide relief to the U.S.
The Arab League said that its secretary-general, Amr Moussa, sent a cable of "deep condolences and regret to the U.S. administration over the effect of Hurricane Katrina ... and called on all Arab countries to extend aid to the United States to face the exceptional humane circumstances."
Excellent, finally a country donates something to speak of.
Thank you, Kuwait.
Pa mom, Im really starting to feel foolish now! But Ill take it though, the response has been overwhelming. Now Im going to have to dig deeper! But will do so willingly.. : )
Isn't Kuwait a democracy?
I admit I am much more wary of Qatari money than Kuwaiti money...as Qatar is the home of Al Jazeera and the Qataris have given money to terrorist organizations in the past to "buy security."
That's odd. The left claims that the entire muslim world hates the US. I'm very glad to see that we have friendship that scratch each others back. My faith in humanity just went up another notch.
Favors get payed back in kind.
Doubtless they remember what the Presidents Bush did, and wish to be appropriately thankful-- with an eye toward their potential future needs.
Thank You Kuwait !
Thank you Kuwait!
Bless them but watch out for the race-baiting poverty pimps that are salivating like rabid animals.
Finally a country that observes "tit for tat"!
Which is greatly needed and can be put to good use.
This joker comes to mind...
Qatar was a key ally in the War, as was Kuwait. I'd like to see these countries also sidestep OPEC and pledge to produce more oil to make up for that which will be lost due to Katrina.
Thank you, Kuwait and Qatar! Proof positive that not all Muslims or Arabs hate us.
Hmm. . . By this standard, France should be ponying up ten times as much- they're bigger, and we liberated them from the Germans twice.
very nice. they only owe their entire country to us. but then, that never bothers the french.
Another day there was somebody's FR post accusing the Kuwaitis of ingratitude. That post ought to be withdrawn and apologized for.
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