Will We Get Any Foreign Help For Katrina?

[LeftyElvis]

We need it; that jackass in DC can't coordinate shit. Look at the disasterous handling of 9/11.

[Horse with no Name]

1. This is just a RW talking point

Our country has what it needs.
Other countries have offered. We have declined.
It allows them to be portrayed as being generous, it allows us to keep our national pride by not requesting charity.
Can we stop with this point already?

[Maple]

4. People need to feel

they're not alone. What's wrong with that?

[Horse with no Name]

7. You must have missed the wars about this yesterday

it was a Fox/Rush talking point yesterday.
It is still being pursued, trying to paint the US as a martyr who gives and never receives when it simply isn't true.
Other countries offer--we turn them down.
It's the way it works.
Nobody is leaving us in the cold. It's just something to get the Bushbots in an uproar over.

[Maple]

11. Ahhh

well I never listen to Fox or Rush. :D

But if people knew that others offered help, I think it would undercut a rightwing talking point.

[Horse with no Name]

14. That's precisely why Faux or Rush doesn't report it

gotta keep the bots worked up in a frenzy!
FWIW, this little morsel was carried in here yesterday about 5 minutes after it was on Faux.:)

[donheld]

20. Other countries offer--we turn them down.

If you have any links on these offers it would be great. We may need them to rub some right winger noses in. thanx

[Horse with no Name]

21. There was a link earlier in LBN

There is so much information going through DU right now it is impossible to find everything.

[donheld]

22. You got that right

It's been moving at warp speed. Unlike * who still at a snails pace.

[Horse with no Name]

23. LOL

I will keep my eyes out for it again and post it when I run across it.

[kbm8795]

6. We turn it down

because Bush doesn't want to be embarassed at how much more quickly the Canadians could dispatch assistance than our White House.

[Maple]

2. Everyone offers

whenever there is an earthquake or a hurricane, but the US usually turns it down.

So far Canada, Venezuela, Russia and France have made public announcements to that effect....both sympathy and aid.

Others may well have offered, but those 4 I know for sure.

[daleo]

3. For the record, Canada offered help last night

Russia and Venezuela have also offered help, that I know of. Probably more have by now.

[Totally Committed]

5. Venezuela has offered food and fuel assistance. n/t

TC

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

8. Who do you want it from? The Sudanese?

[ernstbass]

9. the gov of Louisana said that offers were pouring in

from other countries.

[Justitia]

10. What did we do for France when 10,000 of them died in a heatwave?

I don't remember a massive shipment of window a/c units, but I could be wrong....

[Horse with no Name]

12. Silly you

They were FRENCH.
Bushbots don't like the French! That can be justified.
:sarcasm:

[mattclearing]

13. We did kick the Germans out of their country, FWIW. n/t

[nyhuskyfan]

15. And they helped kick the British out of ours...

So we're even

[mattclearing]

16. Touché. n/t

[back2basics909]

18. And the British...

... made your first language England and not Dutch, German, French, Spanish or Portugese.

[Justitia]

17. We probably owed them for financing the American Revolution. -eom

[izzie]

19. I recall once Russia offered to build a bridge in some small town

These people needed a new bridge and could not get the state to do it. It was sort of funny and I do not think they ever did it but they may have sent the money for all I know.