Posted on 09/02/2005 1:34:49 AM PDT by ChristianDefender
Well, I for one would like to thank any country who is willing to help.
Thank you Australia!
Thank you Great Britain!
As far as finger pointing, well considering the enormity of what happened, I can't fault anying or anyone, shit is going to happen and nobody can ever predict how deep its going to be.
I think rescue efforts and mobilization of help is going extremely well and will improve as time goes on. We are only being allowed to see the absolute worst, there are pobably behind the scenes activities taking place that would boggle our minds.
The biggest roadblock in all of this are the people who have regressed to savages, I don't think anybody could have forseen that.
I had to laugh at some politician who was complaining that nothing was being done while the levees were being breached. Its kind of hard to buttress those darn things when the wind is blowing 165 miles an hour.
This time?
It is annoying isn't it.
And it is not just complaining about our allies. Some are gripping about some of our corporate donors as well. They should have done more and sooner and so forth.
Some people just like to gripe. They would complain if they were hung with new rope.
Sounds like I touched a nerve. Some people can't even consider criticism, never mind accept it. Grateful or ungrateful doesn't apply, btw, I am not an American.
Hey, is it great that they at least gave something, and like another poster said probably the Americans need search personnel, mobile hospitals, etc., more than money. It's also disgraceful that 'good friends' like the Saudis didn't offer a billion the first day. That doesn't change the fact, though, that 10 million from a government isn't very much.
I don't think it's very much different from finding a wallet on the street, returning it, and then complaining that you didn't get a reward.
ok, perhaps the grateful iriaqi people might wish to sell a few million barrels on the open market and send the cash to US?
Just realize that WND is basically the journalistic equivalent of a conspiracy blog run by a 40 year old man living in his mother's basement. It's a shame anyone takes anything they write seriously.
How did you misss the threads mentioning the foreign countries that were sending prayers and donations? There were a number of them, countries and threads, around here yesterday. And most of us were thankful for the offerings.
I wasn't sneering at the kindness of others, I was just pointing out how inadequate it was. Certainly the Aussie gift is welcomed and appreciated, but it is only 0.01% of what we need. It would be nice if the rest of the world could come up with al least $1 billion in aid, which is about what the US sent to tsunami relief alone.
If you want a meaningless feel good gesture on the other hand then they could promise to send an entire pre-fab city to be set down tomorrow.
Both are quite impossible at the moment.
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
I realize that irony is hard for you to grasp, but the point here is not that there is any expected generosity from iraq, only that the American people have ponied up $300 Billion (plus interest) to do some nation building in a country that sits on the second largest deposit of oil in the world.
Meanwhile Americans suffer.
Did you know that the US government has pledged over $1 Trillion in tsunami aid and private US citizens have already provided well over $1 Trillion in additional money? Did you know the US accounts for about 40% of all relief aid worldwide? I am not belittling those who have stepped up and down something, but there are many more who have not.
By the way, has the UN offered help?
That should be billions, not trillions.
What's a t or b between friends?
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