Powell reaffirms commitment of U.S. aid (Jeb: I am symbol of *'s concern)

[rainbow4321]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TSUNAMI_US?SITE=TXSAE&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Bush, who returned to the White House on Sunday after a holiday vacation at his Texas ranch, will get reports from the delegation, but does not now intend to go to the region.

"These are nations that are spending their time and attention now delivering relief to their citizens, and a visit by the president of the United States, with all that entails, would be a diversion of their attention from providing support," Powell told CNN's "Late Edition."
"So we don't need a big, grandstanding event right now, which would essentially, no matter if it's only two capitals, be a significant diversion," he said.

Jeb Bush, who has overseen Florida's recovery from hurricanes, said before leaving Miami, "I know the president has deep concerns about what has happened and the fact that I am his brother symbolically may underscore his deep concern."

[Annus Horribilis]

1. Super Jeb to the Rescue!

[THUNDER HANDS]

2. I am his brother?

I see he's gramattically channeling his brother too!

[tx_dem41]

4. Help me...

what's wrong with that?

[THUNDER HANDS]

6. now that i read it again

technically, nothing, except a missing comma. I read the sentence starting from the bolded part so I thought that was the beginning of the statement.

Disgregard my grammar comment, though please leave in the disgust behind it. :D

[tx_dem41]

8. Left in disgust...as desired...lol..

The sentence as a whole is awkward.

[wildmanj]

3. jeb

:puke:

[Just Me]

5. Jeb is a signatory to PNAC and gives nothing without strings attached.

To me, his trip to these parts of Asia only symbolizes the BFEE's usual analysis of how they can most benefit from human tragedy.

He and his brother and family have proven themselves as actors interested only in self-advancement.

I wave at the whole lot of them,...WITH ONE FINGER!!! To me, they and their constituents are the enemies of democracy and compassion and equality and "freedom" and hope,...need I go on?

[MaineDem]

7. The UN and the countries involved have asked...

that Heads of State, etc, NOT come to the region.

There's no ability to provide security for one thing and it would just be disruptive.

And what capitals were damaged? I'm not sure any capital was damaged but I could very well be wrong. If they only go to "two capitals" they won't see the damage.

[patdem]

9. But, but, but bush** said he abhored 'symbolic gestures' like

'I feel your pain'..his excuse to continue his vacation? now he 'symbolically' sends his older brother who the people in Asia know nothing of and could not care less for? :grr:

Edit: I forgot the :grr:..and another thing...If the world trusted us, why would Powell have to RE-AFFIRM our commitment??? and another :grr: so I do not forget!

[Just Me]

15. It's all about money,...

,...the BFEE sure as hell hasn't pressed for humanitarian relief caused by their aggressive warring or by other "human-produced" horrors (which they can only profiteer from by pushing arms or drugs).

Absolute power-mongers only feel loss or suffering when it involves their small circle. Otherwise, "compassion" is a codeword for "profits".

[Moloch]

10. Jeb is a symbol, alright

Of his brother's unwillingness to be bothered with the deaths of over 100,000 people.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

11. Hey Jeb! YO, Jeb! Symbolically underscore THIS.

If you go back to the original blueprints for the United States of America, a MONARCHY was one of the things our founding fathers were FIGHTING AGAINST.

Don't take what you believe to be support for the Bush dynasty for granted. George W. Bush is "deeply concerned" about George W. Bush. THAT'S IT. Anything else is "too much hard work."

:grr:

[madrchsod]

12. "i am running for president as

soon as my retarded brother leaves office". "king jeb sounds good to me"

[Benhurst]

13. This is a great chance for Jeb to sell the leftover defective water

pumps he was selling to African dictators. Way to go, Jeb!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. "His deep concern," my sweet pink ass.

Weecowboy's "deep concern" doesn't involve a bunch of non-Christian brown furriners -- he's proved that already. He's sending Brother Jebby as a way of grandstanding that doesn't look as much like grandstanding as it would if he went himself. Anyhow, why would His Chimperial Highness want to travel to some hot, steamy third-world hellhole full of rotting corpses and creepy poor people when he can make somebody else do it?

[nascarblue]

16. Jeb, Powell, and Cheney...Economic hitmen and jackals smell $$$.

He's going to check on their oil infrastructure damage more than anything. Scout out new jobs for the corporatocracy. It's well known the US has raped Indonesia of it's resources for the last 28 years.
I was just watching an interview with John Perkins where he was discussing Indonesia.

Check out the interview here.http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/31/1546207


I really am suspicious about this tsunami. It did the same job a year of bombing would do without the high profile blame. Now the World Bank and Jeb are headed over there? Powell, who's now going into privatitizing? Remember Powell went to OPEC last month in Chile. There's just too many coincidences. Plus, remember exactly a year before TO THE HOUR, the Iran earthquake hit under similar historically strange circumstances. Dont you find all these coincidences eerily reminiscint of 9-11? The way they're behaving?

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO412C.html global research has some very good in-depth research about all the cover ups and failures of last week. I think you will find it very interesting and very thorough. Shades of the 9-11 cover up.

Speaking of Dr. Evil, anyone notice that Dick Cheney had been MIA from the time of Karzai's inaugural in early Dec. to his annual duck slaughter trip on New Years day? Where has he been? At some trunami/earthquake command center?

[Pithy Cherub]

17. Chimp trainer Jeb is his brother's keeper...

jebbie, the presidential stand-in stunt dummy...

[Zech Marquis]

18. that's so goddamn insulting!

"Jeb has dealt with brown skinned people in Foria, so I'll send him over there" :puke:

oh yeah, that first pedge of $15 million in aid showed how much * cared--until he was shamed into giving MORE!

my god, I'd better wipe the dust off my passport, I'm afraid I just might need it after all :argh:

[Swamp Rat]

19. God speaks to Jeb...

[bluedeminredstate]

20. All I can say to that pretentious phooey is that

Jeb can go piss up a rope!

[Seabiscuit]

21. No, Jeb, you're just a symbol of yo momma's propensity to spawn evil.

[gatorboy]

22. AARGH!! This is what kills me about the right.

They fall all over each other whining about the Clinton political dynasty. How Bill and Hillary want to run everything. But they love to ignore the fact that the Bush family is committed in getting their greedy hands on every bit of power they can....

[murielm99]

23. A symbol of his corruption is more like it.

And a symbol of the BFEE corruption as well.