FINALLY. Colin Powell makes a condolence call >>>

[Stephanie]

Note that he is in DC. It took five days for someone from the administration to go across town to the embassies to express America's grief and sympathy for this incredible loss of life?





http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/041230/480/dcsa10112301618

Thu Dec 30,11:21 AM ET
AP

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) extends the sympathy of the American people and President Bush (news - web sites) for the losses from the tsunami tragedy as he signs a book of condolences at the Embassy of Thailand in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004. Beside him is a photograph of 21-year-old Poom Jensen, the Thai-American grandson of King Phumiphon, who was killed as the tidal wave stuck the resort areas of southern Thailand. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

[NV Whino]

1. Seems you have to be the grandson of a king to get one, though. n/t

[Old and In the Way]

Well, it is a King's grandson.

Before I read the blurb, I thought it was a funeral for a US soldier killed in Iraq.....not a kid who died while jet skiing on vacation. Silly me.

[Stephanie]

5. I think it is in sympathy for all the Thai people lost

And the grandson's photo is there as one of those lost. It's not his private funeral.

[Old and In the Way]

12. Probably true Stephanie.

My cynic meter is running in the red these days.....

[wendypan]

2. I will miss Powell

tons of reasons not to like him...but he was the only sane member of the Bush Administration. Any last vestige of reason and rational thinking.

Again, tons to complain about, but compared to the Neo-Cons, the man at least has a soul.

[ohio_liberal]

4. He sold his soul

when he gave his bogus speech to the UN before the war started.

[Serial Mom]

13. Not my kind of person . .

who went with "party politics" against his own convictions!

Tell me that is moral value!

[babylonsister]

3. Too little, way too late. nt

[Stephanie]

6. precisely

[Solly Mack]

7. How touching

NOT

[seemslikeadream]

8. Silly me, I thought it might be to the people of Haiti

[sandnsea]

9. Well where are WE???

I live in a teeny town and we don't have an embassy. But where are the people and flowers at all these embassies? Like what we received after 9/11. I appreciate all the money people are donating, but I'd sure like to see a little outpouring of empathy as well. Not sure, but is there a little pot/kettle stuff going on?

[elehhhhna]

10. He got no instructions. Bush's cell phone's turned off on vaca.

[beyurslf]

11. How is Bush going to react when we find out the 1000's of Americans

who are still missing were also lost? Just assume anyone in SE Asia and Americans must be a liberal scum who deserved it? He looked so smug yesterday in his little speech.

[nascarblue]

14. Wow, he walked across the street to write in a book that the dying...

...can't read. I think they need water and a bowl of food. What an ass. I call that a "damage control photo-op"

[nascarblue]

15. Let's not forget...

...How the world reacted when 3000 people were murdered by Bush and Cheney on 9-11. Let's compare that to this tsumani...3000 dead compared to 128,000?

[Be Brave]

16. Hey nascarblue, this deserves a thread of its own.

Please post these pics on a separate thread so more people can see and be reminded of how the world felt on 9-11.

[RuleofLaw]

17. I think I earlier today saw

here on DU a picture of Ted Kennedy signing a letter of condolence for the Tsunami victims.

Pathetic that a Senator signs before the Secretary of State.