I am republishing this post from some time ago - it concerns Katrina and the mounds of useless aid sent to the US, most returned unopened.
The question we should consider is - why, why would ANY of these countries believe we needed ANY assistance?
Perhaps a Reuters article dated 9/2/05 - World Stunned as US Struggles with Katrina.
Germany's Handelsblatt daily - Apocalypse Now
Britain's The Sun - Anarchy in the USA
A quote from someone in Sri Lanka - "I am absolutely disgusted. After the tsunami our people, even the ones who lost everything, wanted to help others who were suffering," said Sajeewa Chinthaka, 36, as he watched a cricket match in Colombo, Sri Lanka. "Not a single tourist caught in the tsunami was mugged. Now with all this happening in the US we can easily see where the civilized part of the world's population is."
France's Liberation newspaper - A Modern metropolis sinking in water and into anarchy -- it is really a cruel spectacle for a champion of security like Bush.
A woman in South Korea made a comment that she said 'a lot of people thought' - that the US was being paid back for Iraq.
What a bunch of doucebags - the media. You paint a nightmare image, blame it on Bush, the world reads and watches, and then ... BELIEVES YOUR LIES and ... we get the above stupid comments. It isn't their fault (the people) - they are too misinformed to know the difference.
What I wrote in May 2008 -
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Aid offered by over 50 countries in the wake of Katrina.
I have been pretty blunt what I think of stupid left-wing fools in previous posts, and they are a big part of this mess as well.
What the American people donated in cash and aid was over four billion dollars.
The federal government provided billions more.
The state of Louisiana SHOULD have provided hundreds of millions more PLUS insurance companies paid out billions more.
Many many billions.
Now, for a moment, think of the costs of buildings and property in Louisiana. In addition to the billions, hundreds of homes were built for free due to charity or other sources.
Every person affected received a $2,000 credit card for immediate need, received a place to stay - either on the ships docked in the harbors or a mobile home provided rent free.
Then you have extra needs and FEMA added hundreds of millions more for long term rehabilitation to the area. The issue I have is - where is the city? where is the state? It is not, just so we are all on the same page - the responsibility of the federal government to fix everything.
Apparently they were no where to be found, but it is much easier to blame Bush for everything than to acccept responsibility and place blame where it must be placed to remedy ther wrongs.
The haste with which the left attacked, the media whores and their portrayal of a failure indicating a collapse of our system led to some of the following aid offers.
The thing to remember - we have more resources available in the United States than anywhere in the world, or for that matter - the world combined, in many areas. yet, the constant media whoring on this issue creates the image in the world that the US cannot help or save itself, which is wholly inaccurate.
The left never considers what it has done to hurt our image in the world. It just feels.
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The Associated Press
AP Online 09-06-2005
Many nations have offered the United States aid in dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, including an agreement by European governments to release 2 million barrels of oil per day from strategic reserves.
Other offers include:
_ AFGHANISTAN: $100,000.
_ ARGENTINA: Six disaster relief and rescue coordinators.
_ AUSTRALIA: $8 million to American Red Cross.
_ AUSTRIA: Water pumps, plastic sheets, cots; An Austrian Red Cross team is in Houston to set up a communication network.
_ BAHAMAS: $50,000 for U.S. victims and additional aid to Bahamian citizens in stricken areas. _ BANGLADESH: $1 million.
_ BELGIUM: Medical, logistics, civil engineering and diving teams, pumps, generators.
_ BRAZIL: Willing to contribute but awaiting specific request from United States.
_ BRITAIN: 500,000 ready-to-eat meals; medical experts, search-and-rescue gear, marine engineers, high-volume pumps.
_ CANADA: three navy ships, a coast guard vessel, several Sea King helicopters and about 1,000 personnel, including navy divers to help clear waterways and inspect damaged levees.
_ CHILE: Plans to contact U.S. authorities to see what is needed.
_ CHINA: $5 million to aid survivors. Says it will help with medical treatment and epidemic prevention if necessary.
_ COLOMBIA: Offers rescue and paramedic teams.
_ CUBA: Offers 1,100 doctors.
_ CZECH REPUBLIC: Rescue teams, field hospital and pumps and water processing equipment, as well as transport planes.
_ DENMARK: Water purification units.
_ DOMINICA: Police to help patrol disaster zone.
_ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Offers rescue workers, doctors and nurses.
_ EL SALVADOR: 100 army troops, including medical personnel and engineers.
_ FINLAND: A search-and-rescue team.
_ FRANCE: Flying in 300 tents, 980 cots; 60 generators, three water purification units; 30 water pumps. Offering aircraft and two ships with helicopters, disaster unit with 20 soldiers, civil defense detachment of 35 people.
_ GERMANY: 40,000 meals; 30,000 more coming. Offering medical supplies, vaccination teams, water purification equipment, medical evacuation aircraft and crisis management experts.
_ GREECE: Two cruise ships to help house homeless, as well as relief supplies and rescue crews.
_ GUATEMALA: 80 specialists from army, health and interior departments.
_ HONDURAS: 134-member medical and rescue brigade. Mayor of capital, Tegucigalpa, offers a similar group.
_ INDIA: $5 million to American Red Cross. Offering medical teams with experience in waterborne diseases and to set up community water purification plants.
_ INDONESIA: Medical team of 45 doctors and 155 other staff and 10,000 blankets.
_ IRAN: Offers to dispatch unspecified aid through its Red Crescent agency if needed.
_ ISRAEL: Sending medical team. Offering hundreds of doctors, trauma experts and other medical staff as well as field hospital.
_ ITALY: 300 cots, 300 blankets, 600 sheets, a water pump, six life rafts, 11,200 chlorine tablets, first-aid kits; baby food.
_ JAPAN: $1 million in aid and offers to send tents, blankets, power generators and portable water tanks. _ KOSOVO: $500,000.
_ KUWAIT: $500 million worth of oil and other aid.
_ LATVIA: A disaster relief team, financial aid, blankets, bottled water.
_ LITHUANIA: Rescue teams, meals, building materials.
_ LUXEMBOURG: two jeeps, 1,000 cots, 2,000 blankets.
_ MEXICO: Navy ship carrying food, amphibious vehicles, helicopters and medical team to arrive Wednesday. Fifteen army vehicles carrying food, health brigades, water-treatment plants and mobile kitchens with capacity to feed 7,000 people a day heading to U.S. border. Government sets up bank accounts to collect donations and donates $1 million. Offer comes from search-and-rescue group called "topos" _ "moles" _ organized by youths digging through collapsed buildings after Mexico City's 1985 earthquake.
_ THE NETHERLANDS: A frigate with water, medicine, helicopters and beds to arrive Wednesday. Three giant water pumps have been offered, as well as expertise in dike and water engineering, and forensic ID help.
_ NEW ZEALAND: $1.4 million. Government has also offered to send an urban search and rescue team, a disaster victim identification team or recovery personnel. _ NICARAGUA: Flooding and sanitation experts.
_ NORWAY: Navy divers, 10,000 blankets and unspecified financial aid.
_ ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES: $25,000 to American Red Cross.
_ PAKISTAN: Doctors and paramedics.
_ PANAMA: 120,000 pounds of bananas for hurricane victims.
_ PERU: 80 to 100 doctors with expertise in tropical diseases and disasters. But President Alejandro Toledo said Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld requested Peru instead send medical supplies and canned foods. Peru will try to comply.
_ THE PHILIPPINES: Philippines Red Cross donating $25,000. Government offers 25-man relief team.
_ PORTUGAL: Lending 2 percent of its strategic oil reserve, equivalent to 500,000 barrels of oil.
_ QATAR: $100 million in humanitarian assistance.
_ ROMANIA: Two teams of medical experts.
_ RUSSIA: Three transport planes with generators, food, tents, blankets, drinking water and medical supplies.
_ SAUDI ARABIA: Offers to increase oil production to replace shortfalls caused by Katrina.
_ SINGAPORE: Three CH-47 transport helicopters and 38 soldiers in training unit at Grand Prairie, Texas, to Fort Polk, La., to work with Texas Army National Guard in disaster relief operations, including resupply and airlift missions.
_ SLOVAKIA: Water purification gear, cots, water.
_ SLOVENIA: Cots, bedding, first-aid kits.
_ SOUTH KOREA: $30 million in government and civilian assistance and sending search team and relief supplies.
_ SPAIN: Firefighters and equipment, medical staff, search-and-rescue expertise, tents, cots, blankets, water treatment units, heating equipment, meals, water, generators.
_ SRI LANKA: $25,000 to American Red Cross. (Isuppose civilized nations can manage to cobble together a small amount. Would have been preferable if they sent goodwill instead.)
_ SWEDEN: First-aid kits, blankets, meals, generators, plastic sheeting, 2 water purification units and instructors; aircraft ready for immediate deployment.
_ SWITZERLAND: Blankets, 50 tons of aid supplies, two logistic experts from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, two doctors and two water specialists.
_ TAIWAN: $2 million.
_ THAILAND: At least 60 doctors and nurses along with supplies of rice.
_ TRINIDAD: Local Red Cross sending 10-15 relief workers.
_ URUGUAY: Two mobile water purification units and two tons of powdered milk.
_ VENEZUELA: Offers 1 million barrels of gasoline, $5 million in cash, water purification plants, rescue volunteers and more than 50 tons of canned food and water. Government's Citgo Petroleum Corp. pledges $1 million.
_ UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Tents, clothing, food and other aid.
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