STORM2K

Boy if this doesn't tick me off.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/27/un.tsunami/index.html

Man, of ALL the nerve Egeland has!!

Eric

As if the US doesn't have its OWN disaster cleanup ongoing? FOUR major hurricanes, record snowfall, etc..

Maybe we should tell the UN to pay out the "Oil-For-Food" money they received from "So-Damn Insane" for the relief effort...then, they just MIGHT gain a little legitimacy.

I am not american but I think calling the U.S government singy was very much uncalled for

It's the U.N... is anyone TRULY surprised?

Yep...we a very "stingy" bunch. We only gave about $16 Billion through USAID in 2003.

stormchazer wrote:Yep...we a very "stingy" bunch. We only gave about $16 Billion through USAID in 2003.

16 billion that could have been used to pay for the Iraq war, to pay for homeland security, to pay for anything.

streetsoldier wrote:As if the US doesn't have its OWN disaster cleanup ongoing? FOUR major hurricanes, record snowfall, etc..

Maybe we should tell the UN to pay out the "Oil-For-Food" money they received from "So-Damn Insane" for the relief effort...then, they just MIGHT gain a little legitimacy.

I couldn't agree more!

tropicalweatherwatcher wrote:I am not american but I think calling the U.S government singy was very much uncalled for

"Uncalled for"? Quite the understatement, if I might say so.

When disaster strikes the US...as it has so frequently the past few years (2004 Hurricanes, 9/11, etc etc), we're lucky to even rate a sincere word of condolence...much less material aid from the rest of the world.

When IRAN (of all countries) was struck last year this time by the Bamm earthquake...we quickly and generously offered ANY and ALL assistance to IRAN--a country that views us as "The Great Satan" and whose leaders would be thrilled to see us all dead.

The US is ALWAYS the first on scene with $$, food, blankets and search and rescue resources when a natural disaster strikes anywhere in the world.

WHERE was all the world's "help" for FL? For GA, NC and up the eastern seaboard after the 'Canes this year? Nada. Zip. Zilch. Not even condolences.

Now with the Tsumami....we're "stingy"??

This just ticks me right off. I'd just as soon the UN move to Brussels, and we keep the US tax dollars funding it right here at home.

As I said then...Iran should remember to NEVER build a city on a place called "Bam".

streetsoldier wrote:As I said then...Iran should remember to NEVER build a city on a place called "Bam".

streetsoldier wrote:As I said then...Iran should remember to NEVER build a city on a place called "Bam".

Great irony that BAMM was leveled, huh?

Jeny

since nobody said anything to us after either Charley, Frances, Ivan, or Jeanne (except maybe Britain and Russia), we should have not even acknowledged the event, much less given any aid. I do not want my tax dollars going to help nations who will not even offer a single word of condolences when we have major disasters