U.N. official slams U.S. as ‘stingy’ over aid
The Bush administration yesterday pledged $15 million to Asian nations hit by a tsunami that has killed more than 22,500 people, although the United Nations’ humanitarian-aid chief called the donation “stingy.”
“The United States, at the president’s direction, will be a leading partner in one of the most significant relief, rescue and recovery challenges that the world has ever known,” said White House deputy press secretary Trent Duffy.
But U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland suggested that the United States and other Western nations were being “stingy” with relief funds, saying there would be more available if taxes were raised.
It is horrible what this natural disaster has done and how many lives it has taken and families it has torn apart – - and the United States has sent twenty million dollars thus far (more than any other country) and will continue to send financial aid. This was just a first installment of what our nation has pledged to do to help these nations in trouble. Also many US workers are being deployed to the disaster areas to assist in the recovery and identifying the bodies as well as to help those who are in need or have been injured.
The United Nations calling the US stingy is ridiculous and way out of bounds. If they want to measure us by our relief efforts then might I ask where they have been during our natural disasters? Where were they when Florida was hit time after time by hurricanes this year?
Why doesn’t the UN dip into some of the oil for food money instead of wanting the US to raise taxes? That’s just stupid – - and they deserve the smack of the week for this one.
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My girlfriend is pro-choice, pro gay marriage, and against the war in Iraq..and I love her very much!
funny
Yeah it is….. don’t get me wrong, I’m actually a pretty level-headed, likable fellow! I just go over the top a lot here, in part, to demonstrate to the wild-eyed lefties, that we are here on the right, just as brash, just as passionate….this is a NEW thing.. and it’s good. I’ll tell you what though, I get in debates with my girl, and basically bow out…. I’m not stupid..I’m not SLEEPING ON THE COUCH!!!!!
150: Sounds like you would love shiloh
the first time I told her I was pro-life and against gay marriage, she looked like I just served her a hot steaming turd!!!!
it’s one thing to be a compassionate liberal, it’s wholly another to be a blind Bush hater…and I think dg, shitloh, and certainly simon fit in to the latter
and that’s really the difference between them and I… I could tell you 10 things that I respect and / or support about Billy Blowjob.. I defy you to find the same sort of objective views from them on President Bush.
maybe you should ask them to be sure
ask them what?
If there is anything positive they see in Bush
how i got into a position that i am asked to defend the UN is not based on anything i said in this forum. as far as pcd asking me how much outof pocket i’ve given to flood relief, is he serious? he wants a dollar figure?
i find it interesting & [insert your own adjective here0 how peejz, pcd, kilo & sasha ascribe beliefs to me, like all liberals all believe exactly the same thing, then condemn me for the beliefs they’ve ascribed.i don’t even have to be in that
ok, I’ll play along…
to all of the left-leaning posters….sandyb, shiloh, dg…can you name me some things that you like / respect / agree with vis a vis President George W. Bush????
136 – Drake. i don’t know if what the UN does for a living is clearly understood to those who only see it as a body that deliberastes on war and peace and security. does it count if it teaches a man to fish?
they fail, they succeed, just like us, they try their best. my basic opinion was expressed in post #21. it’s the best we’ve got. those who think we don’t need it i believe are shortsighted.
some UN missions
161 – well i could say this:
1. He has successfully rid America of that troubling budget surplus and turned it into a $500 billion deficit.
2. He has successfully helped America’s trading partners have the highest trade surplus with us in America’s history.
3. He has successfully lowered the taxes for the richest Americans and corporations at the expense of 99% of the American population.
4. He has successfully started another Viet Nam in Iraq after lying to the whole world.
5. He has successfully pushed the price of gas up to the highest level ever here in America.
6. He has successfully allowed American corporations to dramatically increase their pollution.
7. He has successfully thrown about 10% of the population out of work.
8. He has successfully allowed corporations to export our best middle-class jobs.
9. He has successfully divided our country as never before.
10. He has successfully driven our oldest allies away.
11. He has successfully united the terrorists as never before (he said all along he was a uniter, not a divider).
12. He has successfully broken his oath to uphold the constitution of the United States of America.
but i won’t say that in that i’m playing peacemaker as kil said he’d “play along”.
so will say this:
I hear from my friends in Northern California that the Weott Indian tribe is happy with a conservation plan put into place by Bush’s Interior Department that has improved the tribes salmon catch the last 2 years.
good work. exemplary. keep it up.
So why should US tax payers finance new digs for these bunch of crooks and hoods they have cuased suffering and misery for many countries and why do we need to even tolerate their dirty work since koffi annan is a crinimal who has violated New Yorks stricy gun control and i,ll bet even has broken numerous laws its time to defund these UN jerks and evict the UN from american soil forever:mad::mad:
139 – kilo is that what i believe about the Human Rights Committee? telling others that i believe it doesn’t make it so. then condemnming me for it is cheap.
would you believe me if i told you that i think having a country that does not practice humanitarian treatment of their people chairing such a group, just because it’s their turn is idiotic.
but making things up about people you disagree with is such a dear habit or yours, i wouldn’t want you to stop just because it exposes you as a fraud.
OPEN VIOLENCE!
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Hey there!
Hope everyone had a great Christmas!
You mean a happy holiday. j.k.
Hey sis, you haven’t missd much. Got a puppy for Christmas…. Beagle… will post pics later.
oh..how cute TAC…what did you name the little tike?
Gee it looks like I missed a lot.. dirty pics..men locker room talk..threats and violence…ect. What happens when I go away?
merry Christmas navy sis. how’s your brother doing? where is he? did you get any socks?
Back at ya shiloh! Actually he’s coming home tomorrow and we’re going to do the family Christmas get together on New yrs. Can’t wait to see him! So did you have a nice Christmas? Get the typical socks and underoos?
if one more person asks me if Santa gave me everything i wanted i will reach thru the computer screen and they will not see another Christmas. other than that, it was sweet, but tinged with sorrow.
Why the sorrow?
Navy sis, if you liked the locker room talk, i suggest you check out this post and read the comments: For Ann Coulter Fans
Crypt keeper huh sabor?
on Christmas Eve we talked about why Jesus was born and how that’s worked out. i suppose we got hold of the traditional liberal guilt and that, & the libations, took us to tears. but it was with good friends.
179: yeah, I guess I was a little harsh, but I couldn’t let those guys talk about how she is so hot when she isn’t.
I would think that that would bring humility and then joy.
so then who would be on you “hot” list?
gotta run, good night all.
Molly….
183: you got your playboy bunnies, Victorias secret angels, pop princeses, actresses, etc. anyone besides Ann “the man”
Nite sabor! That’s a cute name TAC!
Lee RE: #87
“:we did the wrong thing in the past and therefore we have no right to do the right thing now: you’re so quick to blame everything on Bush.”
You know, now that you mention it, the Bush family has a long history of supporting the Bad Guys:
Grandpa Prescot did business with facist-financier, Fritz Thyssen throughout the 1930′s and was director of a bank that busted laundering money for the Nazis in 1942.
Daddy Bush financed and armed Saddam Hussein in Iraq AND Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan throughout the 1980′s. He was also a member of a business conglomerate that included members of the bin Laden family.
Junior Bush started his “Arbusto” oil company with financing from Salem bin Laden. Dick Cheney’s Halliburton had been in Iraq until just before the 2000 election.
See a pattern here?
You can’t refuteTHAT!
Kilo RE: #135
Can’t you see how stupid and ironic you sound?
Stop with the hateful name-calling and make a point, for Christs’ sake.
100: Of course not. Egypt tried that and got their butts handed to them. Besides that, the US has consistently positioned itself between them and those who’d like to try.
dg, “Grandpa Prescot did business with facist-financier, Fritz Thyssen throughout the 1930′s and was director of a bank that busted laundering money for the Nazis in 1942″ PAPPA KENNEDY WAS VERY CLOSE TO THE NAZIS ALSO, HUHH.
dg, can you name another company that does the same work as Haliburton. Hell, if I get out, I want to be a “contractor”:wink: for them. 250,000 and no rules of engagement.
Kilo RE: #143
“:I took up arms in it’s defense, and i’ll put up my fists in defense of it now, against anyone who sides with our enemies:”
This statement is a lie. You support Bush whose daddy helped create our current enemies.
Is that why you get so irate? A dumbass liberal like me displays the facts of your President and, since you have no response, get all pissed off and threaten people on the internet? (ooooh! Bad-Ass!)
TAC RE: #191, 192
The Kennedys aren’t running the country — Bush is!
Yeah, I know. There is no other company that does what Halliburton does with the security clearence Halliburton has.
There’s also no other company whose board of directors are made up entirely of Generals, Admirals, former Pentagon brass and Reagan/Bush administration officials.
Why would they (Generals, Admirals, former Pentagon brass and Reagan/Bush administration officials) go anywhere else to work when ONE company can hold the government hostage?
I do wonder who grants security clearences for Halliburton subsidiaries like Kellogg, Brown & Root? BTW, these companies are doing jobs that used to be done by soldiers, but Reagan/Bush like to privatize things so that their greedy, warmonger corporate corksuckers can profit off wars — at taxpayer expense.
“Hell, if I get out, I want to be a contractor: for them. 250,000 and no rules of engagement.”
Now THAT’s one hell of a display of disdain for the troops. What an insult to the very soldiers you say I hate.
Unfortunately, if your in the warzone now, you’ll probably stay there until it’s over. Isn’t that what your contract says?
Simple question dg….. “The Kennedys aren’t running the country”Bush is!” Are you suggesting that President Bush is a Nazi? Yes or no will do.
dg. “”Hell, if I get out, I want to be a contractor: for them. 250,000 and no rules of engagement.” Now THAT’s one hell of a display of disdain for the troops. What an insult to the very soldiers you say I hate.” Tell me how I am showing disdain for my OWN?
I hold a commission dg, not a contract. I could resign tomorrow. But I will not.
Contractor ROE… see the enemy, kill them. Very effective. Do ya know who slashed the military dg? Huhh? Talk all the double speak you like, but I lived it. I was in intelligence when it was slashed to ribbons. You can spin it any way you want, but I saw it with my won eyes.
Why work so hard to destroy the US?
I am saddened.:cry: