January 03, 2005

(Can you believe this is a Rooters headline?!)
Tsunami Survivors Cheer U.S. Choppers

U.S. Navy helicopters dropped aid to clamoring crowds in tsunami-hit Indonesian villages Sunday but were unable to land a full week after the waves washed away entire towns around the Indian Ocean.
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Aid pledges reached $2 billion, but the United Nations said it would take days to reach some of the survivors and predicted the death toll, now at 127,000, would rise to 150,000.
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After an initial lax response from wealthy countries, the new year brought a generous about-turn with contributions doubling in a 24-hour period. Washington increased its pledge ten-fold to $350 million, while Japan vowed half a billion dollars.

I'm sure President Bush knows what he's doing...that we can afford to give all that aid.
Betcha the Dems in Congress try to take it out of his hide and attempt to take money out of the budget for OIF, though--Hide and watch.
And, as always, the U.S. military comes to the rescue and are the good guys!
Proud to be an American.
Still praying for the victims, especially the ones in Indonesia that they will see the light and quit being Muslims, where an event like this is considered to be an inevitable thing ("It's the will of Allah.") and that it's even Allah's punishment and judgement because they were bad Muslims.
Check out Jihad Unspun's message on the tsunami:
Important Lessons From The South Asian Tsunami