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  • UN calls US response to tsunami disaster "stingy"

    12/27/2004 2:04:39 PM PST · by ejdrapes · 417 replies · 13,098+ views
    CNN Inside Politics | December 27, 2004 | CNN
    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...