Posted on 12/27/2004 2:04:39 PM PST by ejdrapes
I was watching CNN's Inside Politics today (no transcript up yet) and they had a panel on - someone from the Washington Post, LA Times (Ron Brownstein) and Time magazine (Karen Tumulty). They were discussing our response to the disaster and the host of the program mentioned that the UN called our response "stingy". Then the panel went on to talk about how we "fumbled" this and were basically AWOL for one day. This just really made my blood boil. What have other countries done? The Brits say over 10,000 of their citizens were on holiday in that area. It's a large tourist area for Europeans. Where's the criticism of the EU and its member nations? And do we really have to play politics at a time like this?
CNN are turncoats.
About 95% of the tourists are from Europe.
It has.
I agree, I can't believe we haven't rebuilt Sri Lanka back into the paradise it was before the quake. Come on Bush its been 24 hours get with it! Kerry would have it looking like Beacon Hill by now.
The UN, who ignores genocide, calls our response stingy.
Laughable.
Well, then, why doesn't the UN just send some of their own money. Oh, that's right, I forgot, never mind...
The East River needs a good Tsunami... one that just takes out the UN building.
When I see Kofi Annan head over to Sri Lanka, put on some rubber boots and work gloves, grab a shovel and actually exert a little effort in doing something for someone else (without any expectation that he or his son will profit from it), then I'll give a rat's patootey what the U.N. thinks.
What else can we expect from an irrelevent and sterile body of pimps.
The only "relief supplies" the Saudis send are Qurans and "religious teachers".
The United States should match this amount or the smallest donation of any of the middle eastern Muslim countries which every is less.
I saw this same news segment and threw my tortilla at the TV.
Indeed, the ENTIRE EUROPEAN UNION- with twice our population- pledged only 4 million dollars.
The US has pledged 15 million, the last I heard. We will probably pledge more, too.
When our communities have been leveled by hurricanes or earthquakes, when was the last time ANYBODY offered us assistance? REALLY?
When there has been a catastrophic calamity, when have we NOT offered ample assistance?
I want to tell these UN pricks exactly where they can stick it.
Stingy? Whenever there's a disaster anywhere in the world, Americans open their pocketbooks and checkbooks giving millions. But when there are earthquakes in California or hurricanes in Florida, do the people in other countries reciprocate?
Why even watch the HATE AMERICA crowd on CNN or listen to the Blame America First and 3rd world commie crowd at the UN.
Maybe the'd like to cough up some of the Oil-for-Fraud fortune for a little "humanitarian relief"?
Then again, maybe not.
Is it wrong to want the next tidal wave to hit the UN, while its in session?
Turncoats?? I don't think so it seems to me the back end of them is all we have ever seen of them from day one, no turning involved.
Any foreigner that sits in the US and says such a thing should be put in the Hudson River in a rowboat someone is tossing and told to row due east.
Any US clown citizen that says such a thing should be put in a cage with a bunch of gay babboons with his hands cuffed and little bells attached to his...
Oh Boy- that's a GOOD one!
MSM =America-haters. It must suck to be one of those American press elites and having to go to bed every night hating America.
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