bushh is too god damned proud .. we need the help

While this isn't part of the America Attacks thread, I think it needs said. this disaster in New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf has brought offers of aid from many many countires and as of Friday, bush hasn' accepted any. swallow your pride dumb ass and be grateful for the kindness and help that is offered.

I, and am sure lots of other Americans, do appreciate the offers of help and assistance coming in from around the world. We are one.

This is from the CNN new's web sit

(CNN) -- The oil-rich nation of Qatar has offered the United States $100 million to assist in the humanitarian crisis triggered by Hurricane Katrina.
The state-run Qatar News Agency said Saturday that Qatar's emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, decided to contribute that amount for relief "and humanitarian supplies for the victims of this disaster."

The U.S. government has received offers of support from dozens of nations across the globe.

As of Friday, the White House had not accepted any offers, but Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the State Department was "working very closely with the Department of Homeland Security to match up what is available with what is needed."

There was no immediate word whether the United States would take Qatar up on its offer.

Other offers of aid and assistance have come in from countries around the world -- including from India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia, the four countries hardest-hit by the December 26 Asian tsunami.

The State Department said offers of help had been received from more than 50 countries, including:

Australia, Austria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Belgium, Canada, China, Columbia, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Greece, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Philippines, Portugal, South Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela.

International organizations also offered help ranging from medical teams to tents to cash donations. They include NATO, the Organization of American States, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, and the World Health Organization.

The United Nations has offered to help coordinate international relief.

State Department officials have not yet said if any of these offers -- beyond specific offers of cash to humanitarian organization -- have been accepted.

Following is a list of some of the aid offered by governments.

-- Sri Lanka has offered what it called a "token contribution" of $25,000 through the American Red Cross.

-- Mexico has offered $1 million and is sending 15 truckloads of water, food and medical supplies via Texas. The Mexican navy has offered to send two ships, two helicopters and 15 amphibious vehicles.

-- Australia is giving A$10 million ($7.6 million), most of it to the American Red Cross.

-- China has offered $5 million.

-- India is making a $5 million donation to the American Red Cross, Ambassador Ronen Sen said Saturday. In addition, Sen said India was willing to donate essential medicines to the relief effort, noting that India has the largest number of Food and Drug Administration-recognized pharmaceutical companies outside the United States.

-- -- Germany has offered a wide range of assistance including evacuation by air, medical services, transportation services, water treatment capabilities, assistance in searching for victims, vaccination teams and supplies, and emergency shelter. Germany has also said it is ready and willing to "dip into its own emergency oil reserves" to release some 2 million barrels a day for 30 days.

-- France has offered mobile help from the French Antilles, which is relatively close to the affected regions, including a civil defense detachment of 35 people, tents, camp beds, generators, motor pumps, water treatment units and emergency kits, two CASA cargo aircraft, a ship (Batral Francis Garnier) and the frigate Ventose with its Panther helicopter, and a hurricane disaster unit (20 soldiers and 900 kg of specialized supplies and medical support).

-- France has also offered assistance from the French mainland including: one or two C-135 planes, one A-310 aircraft , and four C-160 Transalls, an airborne emergency unit. In addition, the NGO Telecoms Sans Frontieres, which specializes in restoring phone lines and Internet service in disasters, is ready to send a team of experts and equipment. Veolia Environment, which has facilities in Louisiana, has offered to make its local water management resources available to the American authorities or the Red Cross. It can also quickly send in a team of hydraulic experts.

-- Japan has offered to provide $200,000 to the American Red Cross. The government of Japan will identify needs in the affected regions through the U.S. government and, upon request, is ready to provide necessary and available emergency assistance supply amounting to up to $300,000 worth of items such as tents, blankets, power generators, portable water tanks and more from a supply depot maintained by the Japanese government in Florida.

-- Cuba's President Fidel Castro said on Friday his nation was ready to send 1,100 doctors and 26 tons of medicine and equipment.

Asia

AUSTRALIA: "We're going to provide A$10 million ($7.6 million) and the bulk of that money, if not all of it, will go to the American Red Cross," said Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer. The Australian government said there may be up to 24 Australians trapped in Louisiana in the aftermath of Katrina.

CHINA: China offered $5 million in aid for victims of Hurricane Katrina which devastated the Gulf Coast ahead of President Hu Jintao's U.S. visit. If needed, the Chinese government is also prepared to send rescue workers, including medical experts, officials said.

JAPAN: Will provide $200,000 to the American Red Cross to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said on Friday. Japan will also identify needs in affected regions via the U.S. government and will provide up to $300,000 in emergency supplies such as tents, blankets and power generators if it receives requests for such assistance, the ministry said.

SINGAPORE: The Singapore Armed Forces, responding to requests by the United States Texas Army National Guard, has sent three Chinook helicopters to Fort Polk, Louisiana, to help in relief efforts. The government said the Chinooks will help to ferry supplies and undertake airlift missions.

SOUTH KOREA: Has pledged aid and is waiting for a U.S. response, a government official said. "We have sent our intention to offer recovery aid," a Foreign Ministry official said on Friday.

SRI LANKA: Will donate $25,000 to the American Red Cross.

TAIWAN: Has pledged more than $3 million to the relief effort.

Americas

CANADA: Offered to help in any way it can and the navy is preparing a ship full of emergency disaster relief supplies to be sent when a request comes.

CUBA: Cuban President Fidel Castro offered to fly 1,100 doctors to Houston with 26 tonnes of medicine to treat disaster victims.

MEXICO: The country is sending 15 truckloads of water, food and medical supplies via Texas and the Mexican navy has offered to send two ships, two helicopters and 15 amphibious vehicles.

VENEZUELA: President Hugo Chavez, a vocal critic of the United States, offered to send cheap fuel, humanitarian aid and relief workers to the disaster area.

Europe

EUROPEAN UNION: EU countries are ready to give the United States oil if it requests help, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Friday. But British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said this was not what the EU had in mind when it discussed how to help.

FRANCE: Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said France was ready to offer support, telling TF1 television: "We have rescue teams based in the Caribbean and we are naturally ready to provide aid to the Americans, and that is what we have told them."

GERMANY: Has offered mobile units to provide clean water, military hospital facilities and medical aid.

ITALY: Has offered to "immediately" send aid and evacuation specialists, Italy's civil protection unit said. Authorities have prepared two military transport planes to fly amphibious vessels, pumps, generators, tents and personnel to New Orleans and other areas. They were awaiting word from U.S. officials, the unit said.

NETHERLANDS: Will provide teams for inspecting dykes and for identifying victims if there is a formal request from the United States. It will also send a frigate from Curacao to New Orleans shortly to provide emergency assistance, the government said.

RUSSIA: Has offered to help with rescue efforts, but is still awaiting a reply from Washington. "Above all with heavy transport planes, which can be loaded with helicopters and generators -- as there is no electricity in the area of the catastrophe," Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said.

SPAIN: Expects to receive a formal request to release gasoline stocks to the United States and is prepared to grant it, an Industry Ministry spokesman said.

SWEDEN: The Rescue Authority said it was on stand-by to supply water purifying equipment, healthcare supplies and emergency shelters if needed.

UNITED KINGDOM: British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said Britain stands ready to help the United States in whatever way it can.

Middle East

SAUDI ARABIA - Saudi Refining, a Houston-based subsidiary of state oil firm Saudi Aramco, will donate $5 million to the American Red Cross to support relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

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MOSCOW, Russia (UPI) -- After first turning it down, the United States has accepted Russia`s proposal to help Louisiana recover from Hurricane Katrina.

'Anything that can be of help to alleviate the tragic situation of the area affected by Hurricane Katrina will be accepted,' State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said. 'America should be heartened by the fact that the world is reaching out to America at a time of need.'

Altogether, more than 20 countries, from allies Germany and Japan to Venezuela and Honduras, have offered to help the United States cope with the aftermath of Katrina, MosNews reported.

President George W. Bush said in an earlier television interview the United States could take care of itself.

Copyright 2005 by United Press International


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Bush can't accept aid.....it would be an admission he ain't God, The dumbass would watch a million people die before he did that.

 

Did you skip a post within this thread ?? he has accepted and will accept help..

Please start a thread about Bush flip floping at these pressing times..

 

I believe that Katrina may be bush's Watergate.

"Nero fiddled while rome burned" will be replaced by "bush vacationed while New Orleans drowned."

This is hurricane season in the gulf states, and it was known as early as 5 days in advance that the massive hurricane Katrina was going to hit the U.S.
Did the fed gov't prepare for this?
Nope.
bush's polical favor of appointing a campaign contributer/lap dog as head of Homeland Security, and thus putting him in charge of FEMA (who turned away from preperation AND recovery) is inexcusable.

bush (and 2nd in command chaney) shoud be impeached.

 

well, bush's pride was just an example of the arrogance of most of the country. we assume that we're the "best off" (as stated by another member here) but we're not. we could be, but it just isn't so. accepting assistance would be an admission that america is no better than it really is, an end to the illusion. it would put us in someone else's debt, someone we might actually have to listen to later. i'm glad he's accepting assistance, our latent isolationism when it comes to our decisions should at least take a solid kick to the crotch.

 

Humility is nothing to be ashamed of imho.

 

i know. i'm glad we're finally getting over that hump.

 

Whatever next... the realisation the world does not rotate around the usa

 

Either they're with us or against us..Bush said so. He forgot the part about who gives a fuk and who is he to think the world should suck his ass

 

wouldn't that be fascinating?

 

I fear you are taking that horribly out of context..but never mind.

 

i concur.

but anyway, allowing other countries to assist us would be a very pride swallowing step to take, but so necessary. and maybe we wouldn't be so deaf to what they're trying to tell us.

 

That's exactly why Bush can't...nobodys gonna Tell Bush anything, even if they did with him thinking he's God..he'd just tell em to fuk off

 

This fucking makes me sick.

Press conference here and there. Bullshit!

Accept those offers! Get these people some fucking help!

You fucking hokey cowboy, get off your high horse and help load the wagon!

 

what on EARTH are you talking about?

Do you forget the people who came to our aid after 9/11? Whether it was canadians coming down to help us our or Australia/Nato invoking common defense clauses to protect us, we have accepted and will continue to accept help from other countries.

Our whole notion of defense over the past 60+ years has been about COMMON DEFENSE and that we are intricately connected with our allies in a defense web. How are we saying "we dont need you?"


edit:

"UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The Bush administration, long critical of the United Nations, has accepted a U.N. offer of help in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and a U.N. team has gone to Washington to see how it can complement American efforts."

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A year ago Time Magazine ran an article that clearly said what would happen if a major hurricane hit New Orleans. The article was right on the money. The Corp of Engineers has been wanting to rebuild the levees in that area for a long time. They had everything designed and figured out then Bush took office and slashed their budget making it impossible for them to rebuild the levees. Bush also gutted the budgets of both the Coastguard and FEMA. There is no way to stop a hurricane but you can prepare for one by putting infrastructure in place to reduce the overall damage.

 

God I hope so for the sake of the rest of the world. He should have never been in office in the first place.

 

i'm talking about the fact that most of the people i talk to are SHOCKED that we're accepting aid, because we're supposed to be the best at everything. people languishing in some bizarro world that says that we shouldn't ever accept help, because that would be a weakness. don't pretend you don't know what that's all about. for years and years we've thought of ourselves as the world's heros, and that just isn't working out at all.

 

yeah, seriously, had i been in new orleans, i woulda been extremely pissed at how poorly my municipal government prepared the city for the disaster, KNOWING that there was no money for much needed repairs...