Largest single donor to tsunami victims: Japan, at $500 million

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Just thought I'd mention it for the folks who rallied to the support of president Bush on DU, saying that he did the best he could by staying on the Crawford Pig Farm, avoiding the media, and coughing up an initial $15 million until the WORLD shamed him into giving more.

Your president appreciates your support. You've really performed a great service, defending your president's actions whether they are right or wrong. As you know, that kind of blind and unthinking support is like a hot shot of pure "H" into the junkie arm of Emperor Bush.

Japan is no stranger to the ravages of Mother Nature. They stepped up to the frigging plate. Your president did not.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6754820/



Rain, flash floods hamper tsunami relief effort
Toll passes 123,000; aid pours in with Japan pledging $500 million
The Associated Press

Worldwide donations to aid those battered by the huge waves that slammed Asian and African nations topped $1 billion, with Japan pledging up to $500 million on Saturday, making the country the largest single donor to victims of the catastrophe.

A steady stream of foreign military aircraft also touched down in the epicenter of the disaster, the Aceh province on the northern tip of Indonesia’s Sumatra island.

But supplies were bottlenecking and officials acknowledged distribution networks were not in place to deliver desperately needed supplies to the worst-hit areas.

“The scale of the disaster is just too big,” said Andi Mallarengen, spokesman for Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. “We can bring in the aid, food, but we need manpower to distribute them.”

[Chimpanzee]

1. You must be referring to the freepers that have overrun DU

* is not my president.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

2. Yes, exactly.

It's not the freepers who come here and are obvious about it, it's the ones that post their thoughts on why George Bush is a great man doing the best that he can.

They do it without a trace of irony, assuming it will just be accepted as the gospel truth. It isn't.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. Who has been singing Bush's praise on DU?

Name the names. And, find out their party affiliation. Probably the same Democrats who voted for Bush in Florida. Who needs them?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. I've replied to a few but don't recall the names

It's been primarily in the "Bush offers $15 million in relief" threads. The folks who say he was right not to speak out sooner, that he did everything he could do and we shouldn't expect more, that Kerry would have done exactly the same thing in his situation.

I generally stop short of calling these folks freepers, but I call them on their delusional garbage. Bush is NOT a great man. He is NOT "doing the best he can."

He's doing as much as he WANTS to, which...since the only thing that matters to George W. Bush IS George W. Bush...may actually BE his "best."

[madrchsod]

3. 500 million of our money

another thank you george for fucking us over