Originally posted by Perfect_Cheezit
obviously the amount of money America is sending is gonna be stepped up since we practically always donate more than half the other nations of the world combined, this will be no exception, not to mention all the charity donations private citizens are sending to international relief organizations...plus we're sending troops there to help, so knock off your overly politicized bullshit and think like a normal person
Actually...the last decade Holland has been procentually speaking the country that has donated the most money. I don't have the link anymore but if I remember correctly America was only 6th or 7th. I know Belgium was also above America. Obvliously the 350 you are donating now is very well, just to be clear, I'm not complaining about that at all
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Jan-05-2005 12:44
Steve Stephano
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Location: UK-Wales
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Originally posted by Zewad
you mean about 10 meters..
Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Port Burwell, Ontario, Canada
Yikes, 10 meter waves ... thats not too bad in terms of what I expected these destructive waves to be (I thought they were somewhere 20-50 meters). I cant even imagine how much damage a higher wave would've caused. And I know tsunamis have higher waves than 10 meters in Pacific Ocean. It's so unfortunate that many people, when noticing unusually shallow waters and instead of running for the jungle and mountains they were collecting fish on the newly added beach and taking pictures of the waves before they hit them ...
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Jan-05-2005 17:07
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Biggest tsunami ever was 580 metres.....wasn't it?
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Jan-05-2005 20:38
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Location: Austin, TX TA#2 / SF
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Originally posted by MiB
and btw..i saw on the news today.. collin powell said "we are gonna help even that the majority is muslims there" nice choise of words..
lol..wtf did he mean by that.. beqause he and bush doesnt like muslims doesnt means that everyone is the same..(like in iraq etc fanatic ones)
I saw more of that statement he made... the whole thing in context was about wanting the muslim people to know that we do care deeply and even though there are many who support those who would like to see us destroyed, we do not feel the same. Everyone is created equal and has worth as a human being. There are even pictures showing a young man in an Osama Bin Laden shirt standing next to the US soldiers helping him and those around him. I think most american wish more than anything that people wound understand, that even though we may have vastly different political ideas, at the core, we love people. Our hearts break when others are hurt, abused and mistreated. I really believe that most of us would do just about anything to help out our fellow man.... and it would have nothing to do with where they were from, what they looked like, or what their beliefs were.
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Jan-06-2005 06:17
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Location: Melbourne
Australia is a country of only some 20mill people or so, since the tusnami the people have raised 100million AUD and the government has comitted some 1Billion AUD. But as someone said this isn't a charity competition, respect to any person or nation that donates any money to help the victims.
I think even bringing up Islam in relation to freign aid is wrong, and runs the risk of turning it into a political exercise.
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