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U.N. taking over relief effort
EFLThe United Nations will take over coordination of tsunami relief and reconstruction efforts from a core group of nations, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told donors Thursday. And you thought Rawanda was bad. Powell had convened the core group -- the United States, Australia, Japan, India, Canada and the Netherlands -- at U.S. President George W. Bush's request following criticism his administration had not responded aggressively enough to the crisis. Well, not exactly. We are doing just what we would have done even if the MSM had not attempted to create a meta-narrative that paints Bush as slack ass. The announcement came shortly after U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the regional donor conference in Jakarta that Indian Ocean countries will need $977 million in cash assistance over the next six months to recover. This one is too obvious: Oil-for-food, Kojo, The Congo, Toyota Taliban, $400 a day per diem...etc. Posted by: Dragon Fly 2005-01-06 |
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