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| U.N. taking over relief effort |
| 2005-01-06 |
| EFL The United Nations will take over coordination of tsunami relief and reconstruction efforts from a core group of nations, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told donors Thursday. And you thought Rawanda was bad. Powell had convened the core group -- the United States, Australia, Japan, India, Canada and the Netherlands -- at U.S. President George W. Bush's request following criticism his administration had not responded aggressively enough to the crisis. Well, not exactly. We are doing just what we would have done even if the MSM had not attempted to create a meta-narrative that paints Bush as slack ass. The announcement came shortly after U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the regional donor conference in Jakarta that Indian Ocean countries will need $977 million in cash assistance over the next six months to recover. This one is too obvious: Oil-for-food, Kojo, The Congo, Toyota Taliban, $400 a day per diem...etc. |
| Posted by:Dragon Fly |
| #4 The UN immediately requested $1B of the $3B plus pledged thus far....not Oil-for-Food, but.... |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-01-06 11:03:19 AM |
| #3 Just saw the post from yesterday. My apologies to all. |
| Posted by: Dragon Fly 2005-01-06 10:07:34 AM |
| #2 I was forced to listen to the Perky Katie show this morning. Haven't done that for a long time, and I was amazed at how much it was like watching a soap opera (ie: you can watch once every six months and they still haven't moved the show forward from where you left off.) Headline topics: Abu Gharib, Michael Moore, and I'm sure if I watched abit longer, they would have covered Scott Peterson, the election and Jon Bennet Ramsey. The reason I bring this up here, was they actually do have a new topic, the tsunami - but they covered it by saying (something like) now that the UN has taken over, do you think Bush has "redeemed himself"? ...ah yes, redeemed.... and they wonder why no one watches them anymore |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-01-06 8:54:13 AM |
| #1 Like I said yesterday - now that the 5-star Hotel has 24-hr catering restored the U.N. is ready to 'tke over' the credit for other people's work..... Farking Vultures..... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-01-06 8:53:13 AM |