and world leaders lambasting the United States' response to the tsunami in SE Asia. President Bush has pledged $350 million to the cause and set up a coallition of nations (Australia, Japan, India and the U.S.) to spearhead support to the region and its inhabitants.
While there are those even inside the UN talking down about President Bush's late response, the UN itself hasn't even done anything but start to set up shop. So I ask you, good readers, if you were there when the tsunami hit, starving, lost members of your family and several friends, are you going to give a rat's ass whether or not the UN headquarters that is supposed to be giving aid to you has a roof over it's head or pictures on their walls?
Why on earth are we even debating whether or not President Bush acted quickly enough? Why can't we focus our attention on what matters, the people directly effected or the people who have lost their homes, instead of this partisan bullsh*%?
A memo to the UN, pundits, journalists and others of your ilk: Grow up, grow a pair and put your own money where your mouth is. Donate money, food, supplies, etc. to the millions of people who are starving to death while people try to turn a disaster into a political weapon.
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The UN is on its way out. Bush is going to kill it; the noise is the just the last wailings of a dying beast.
Posted by: Mr. K at January 03, 2005 06:23 AM (b77a8)
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According to Drudge they held an early "wake" at the apt of former UN ambassador Richard Holbrooke .... in an attempt to ressurect Kofi and the UN....developing.
Posted by: Maggie at January 03, 2005 08:02 AM (b9sEy)
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The failure of critics to understand that drinking water was the first requirement, and that even a 24 hour delay getting it to the people could greatly increase sickness, was beneath contempt.
Posted by: Gene 6-Pack at January 03, 2005 08:11 AM (7XPVo)
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I'm tired of it too! Would anyone help us??? By the way, they just had a news alert and the Prez was talking about aid and how former Prez Bush and Clinton are going to head up the aid being sent over there.
Who says we ain't helpin'??
Posted by: Laura at January 03, 2005 09:58 AM (ptOpl)
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We can only hope that soon the U.N. will just be a distant memory.
Posted by: Aunti at January 03, 2005 10:15 AM (z8xeH)
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IAIN-HOOK-MURDER-COMPLICITY –COMPLICITY—COMPLICITY
IAIN-HOOK-MURDER-Complicity –Complicity—Complicity
By Dr. Jack Shepard
The worse crime-is silence! It gives people a feeling of hopelessness.
Why do Mr. Blair and Mr. Straw continue in their silence! Their silence only makes the problem worse! Would they be as silence if Iain Hook was their Father or Brother or Son?
The murder of Iain Hook an unarmed well known British UN Staffer shot in the back after being trapped in his UN Compound in Jenin for 3-4 hours, with 64 UN Foreign Staffers saying it was Cold-Blooded-Murder in their UNWRA open letter, DESERVES AN ANSWER.
Mr. BlairÂ’s and Mr. StrawÂ’s Silence is at this stage HAS BECOME COMPLICITY, and it makes the violence go on. That is why people cry and scream ONLY for fairness.
Complicity in the killing of UN Staff Foreign or Palestinian and the killing of now over a thousand Palestinian Men, Women and Children by the IDF is the best recruiting device that Bin Laden could dream for.
GOOD SHOW MR. BLAIR AND MR. STRAW YOU ARE HELPING BIN LADENÂ’S RECRUITING OF NEW TERRORIST BY GIVING THE ARAB PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, EUROPE AND THE REST OF THE WORLD THE REAL FEELING THAT ARAB'S WILL NEVER GET JUSTICE OR FAIRNESS.
The very fact that you can not stand up to the deliberate murder of a British citizen Iain Hook who headed the UN relief efforts at the Jenin Refugee Camp; let alone criticize the Sharon Government for its brutal policies that has lead to the present Israeli and Palestinian conflict;
which has now spread worldwide is the very fact that complicity is so one sided and unfair it is driving extremists and fanatics out of hopelessness to BECOME suicide bombers.
THEY ARE ALSO VICTIM OF HOPELESSNESS.
WHY SHOULD THE SHARON GOVERNMENT EVER LISTEN TO YOU, YOU ARE SCARED TO TELL THE TRUTH AND BE CRITICAL OF MASS GENOCIDE, WE SEE EVERYDAY THE NEWS.
LIKE THIS YOU WILL NEVER HAVE ANY CHANCE TO MAKING PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, IF YOU REMAIN SILENT YOU WILL NEVER HELP!
MR. BLAIR; JUST STAY AT HOME.
YOUR SILENT COMPLICITY IS WORSE.
DO YOU THINK THAT THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES WOULD SHOOT AN AMERICAN UN EMPLOYEE OR AMERICAN GOVERNMENT SERVICE OFFICIAL IN THE BACK THE WAY IAIN HOOK WAS KILLED.
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH WOULD HAVE REACTED LIKE A STRONG WORLD LEADER TAHT YOU WILL NEVER BE!
IF THAT HAPPENED TODAY TO AN AMERICAN SERVICE OFFICER; PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH WOULD HAVE GOTTEN IMMEDIATE ANSWERS, NOT LIKE YOU.
MORE IMPORTANT NOW IF THIS HAPPENED TO AN AMERICAN, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH IS SUCH A STRONG LEADER THINGS WOULD CHANGE.
ISRAEL KNOWS THAT HE IS DETERMINED TO HAVE THE TWO STATES OF ISRAEL AND PALESTINE LIVING SIDE BY SIDE AND VERY SOON YOU WILL SEE HIM TAKE URGENT ACTION AS A MAN OF GOD, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH DOES NOT LIKE THINGS THAT ARE DISPLEASING TO GOD, LIKE THE PRESENT POLICIES OF ARIEL SHARON TOWARD THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.
YOUR TWO YEARS OF COMPLICITY AND SILENCE HAS ONLY GIVE BIN LADEN A GREAT YEAR FOR RECRUITING.
WITH PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE WORKING FOR THE SHARON GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE NEVER HAD THE COURAGE TO KILL AN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL. THE ISRAELI GOVERNEMT KNOWS YOU ARE WEAK AND USED YOUR COMPLICITY TO GET AWAY WITH THE KILLING OF IAIN HOOK!
KNOWING THAT YOU ARE AND WILL BE TOO WEAK TO BE CRITICAL OF IAIN HOOK'S MURDER. THE SHARON GOVERNMENT JUDGED YOU CORRECTLY.
WHERE ARE THE RESULTS OF THE INVESTIGATIONS YOU PROMISED, WHERE ARE THE ANSWERS, WHERE IS EVEN A COMMENT AFTER OVER TWO YEARS FOR IAIN HOOKS FAMILY.
YOUR COMPLICITY AND SILENCE IS WELL KNOWN BY THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE. IT COST IAIN HOOK HIS LIFE.
THE SHARON GOVERNMENT KNOWS YOU ARE WEAK, AND THAT YOU WOULD REMAIN SILENT ON THE TRUTH.
If this murderer who planned and killed Iain Hook is brought to Justice. Maybe GOD willing someday VERY SOON Israel and Palestine will SOON BE living in peace.
THIS KILLING HAS TO STOP SOMEWHERE, AND BY BRING THE COLD-BLOODED-KILLER OF IAIN HOOK TO JUSTICE IS THE FIRST STEP ON THE ROAD MAP TO PEACE.
THAT IS PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH MAJOR CONCERN AT THE MOMENT, BECAUSE PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH KNOWS THAT WE WILL NEVER HAVE A FREE AND DEMOCRATIC IRAQ UNTIL THE STATES OF ISRAEL AND PALESTINE ARE LIVING SIDE BY SIDE IN PEACE.
Until this happens the message that goes out to every Israeli soldier is "it is OK to even kill British UN staff". This is what Mr. Blair and Mr.Straw are tell the Sharon Government by not saying anything after 2 years, COMPLICITY- without a word, breaking their promises to the British People and THAT TO the FAMILY of Iain Hook for an immediate investigation.
MR. BLAIR; Why are you so concerned to tell the world the truth. Because by saying the truth the Israeli government of Ariel Sharon would get mad, and say you are anti-Semitic.
IF YOU ARE STRONG ENOUGH TO BE CRITICAL ABOUT THE PRESENT POLICIES OF THE ARIEL SHARON GOVERNMENT TOWARD THE UN FOREIGN STAFF, PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, THE ROAD MAP, THE CREATION OF PALESTINE AND THE PRESENT INHUMAN TREATMENT OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES BY THE ISRAELI TROOPS; you are just ANTI-SHARON and HIS GOVERNMENTS policies of violence that have made the environment where terrorism can rapidly grow.
I ASK ARIEL SHARON; are YOU a believer in GOD and HOW CAN YOU ORDER such evil THINGS THAT DISPLEASE GOD.
God will judge you how you judge others. EVERY TIME IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WHEN THE LEADERS "KINGS" DID THINGS THAT WERE DISPLEASING TO GOD, THE JEWISH PEOPLE WERE PUNISHED.
PROPHET WERE THE SEERS AND WARNER IN THE OLDEN DAYS, TODAY WE HAVE TO LEARN FROM OUR PAST, READING THE OLD TESTAMENT, HOW GOD PUNISHED THE JEWISH PEOPLE EVERY TIME THEY DISPLEASED HIM.
GOD USED THE JEWISH PEOPLE AS AN EXAMPLE TO OTHER NATIONS, I PRAY YOU REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE DOING THINGS THAT DISPLEASE GOD; THIS YOU CAN NOT DISPUTE.
I WOULD ADVISE MR. ARIEL SHARON TO THINK ABOUT GOD AND HOW HE AND ISRAEL WILL BE JUDGED BECAUSE OF THE THINGS THE PRESENT SHARON GOVERNMENT POLICIES TOWARD YOUR NEIGHBORS.
YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN THAT "WE SHOULD LOVE OR NEIGHBORS AS WE LOVE AND SERVE GOD." THAT WAS GOD'S CHIEF COMMANDMENT, I PRAY YOUR EYES WILL BE OPENED AND YOUR EARS WILL HEAR THESE THINGS BECAUSE YOU ARE PLACING THE JEWISH PEOPLEìS FUTURE IN THE HANDS OF A GOD WHO YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN AND ARE DOING THINGS THAT DISPLEASED HIM.
I PRAY THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR PRESENT POLICIES AND START TO DO THINGS THAT PLEASE GOD, AND ONCE AGAIN LEARN "TO LOVE YOUR NEIGHBORS AS YOU LOVE GOD; " BEFORE GOD WILL ONCE AGAIN PUNISH THE JEWISH NATION LIKE MANY TIMES THROUGHOUT ANCIENT HISTORY; IN THE OLD TESTAMENT; WHEN THE JEWISH LEADERS DID WHAT WAS DISPLEASING TO GOD.
MR. SHARON do YOU not think maybe the majority of the Israeli' PEOPLE wish YOU TO STOP YOUR VIOLENT POLICIES AND LIVE IN PEACE WITH YOUR PALESTINIAN BROTHERS.
THE MAJORITY OF ISRAELI CITIZENS PRESENTLY ARE VERY DISPLEASED WITH THE PRESENT SITUATION THAT IS CAUSED BY YOUR EXTREME VIOLENT POLICIES TOWARD THE PALESTINIAN MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
General Sharon's PRESENT POLICIES NOW HAVE stimulated the Terrorist to recruit more and more suicide bombers. ( also 99.9% of the World Leaders are very concerned about the Israeli treatment of the Palestinian people); especially the world leaders clearly see the stimulation the Sharon Policies are HELPING Terrorists to recruit more and more suicide bombers.
Mr. Blair your silence only continues to let General Sharon kill and be as violent as he wishes without having to ANSWER TO ANYONE, BUT GOD SOONER OR LATER.
LIKE SOME OF ISRAELS KINGS OF OLD ARIEL SHARON'S PRESENT POLICIES AND ACTIONS DISPLEASE GOD AND ARIEL SHARON IS GAMBLING WITH THE FUTURE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE IF HE CONTINUES TO DO THINGS THAT DISPLEASE GOD.
Complicity is a crime.
Complicity in the cover-up of killing of innocent Palestinians or British UN staffers, only make the Arab Street (Billions of People is every country in the world) FEEL more and more help
less and see and feel more and more injustice.
Hear– Hear: Mr. Blair speak-up– the War on Terrorism can be won only if you tell the truth and everyone in the world is treated equally.
MR. BLAIR, YOU KNOW BUT YOU STILL REMAIN SILENT THE WAR ON TERRORISM IS BASED IN INJUSTICE, AND UNFAIRNESS AND WAS STARTED BY MR. SHARON'S TERROR POLICIES TOWARD THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, WHEN MR. SHARON VISITED THE TEMPLE MONT WITH 5,000 HEAVILY ARMED ISRAELI SOLDIERS WHICH STARTED THE PRESENT WORLD ON A CIVIL WAR. WHAT WAS HE THINKING? WHAT WERE HIS GOALS? TO PLEASE GOD? HIS ACTIONS FOR OVER 20 YEARS HAVE DISPLEASED GOD BUT NEVER IN RECENT HISTORY HAS ONE MAN DISPLEASE GOD ON SUCH A SCALE TO STIMULATE A WORLD CIVIL WAR.
MR. BLAIR, May God give you the courage to expose THE injustice and once again become a world leader, who can tell the Truth and be known because of YOUR fairness.
YOU WILL BE DOING THE JEWISH PEOPLE A BIG FAVOR BECAUSE OF YOU TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TERROR THAT HAVE BECOME THE PRESENT EVERYDAY POLICIES OF ARIEL SHARON'S TOWARD THE UN STAFF AND THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES, YOU JUST MAY SAVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE BY MAKING THEIR LEADERS DO WHAT IS PLEASING TO GOD.
MAY GOD BLESS ISRAEL AND PALESTINE WITH PEACE AND HAPPINESS, ONCE THEY LEARN TO ONCE AGAIN "LOVE THEIR NEIGHBORS AS THEY LOVE GOD." AND BOTH THE ISRAELI'S AND THE PALESTINIANS LEARNING TO DO THING THAT ARE PLEASING TO GOD AND BE REWARDED WITH PEACE AND HAPPINESS AND A PLACE IN PARADISE FOREVER.
Dr. Jack Shepard
Posted by: Dr. Jack Shepard at January 03, 2005 03:22 PM (oARVH)
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Dr. Jack,
One word: Thorazine.
Embrace it.
Posted by: Brian B at January 03, 2005 03:48 PM (CouWh)
Posted by: Laura at January 03, 2005 06:19 PM (ptOpl)
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Dr Jack: Will you please stick to the subject. What does your tirade have to do with US aid? You are really not getting anywhere except people are believing you are over the edge. By the way, Doctor of what? Calm down. Short attention spans here.
On the subject. How soon they forget. I'll match the United States record on aid to other countries with any. No one is history has been as giving. I think much of the noise agrees with my jealous little dog theory.
As the big dog we have choices.
1. Ignore them and continue on.
2. Raise our leg and piss on them.
3. Turn around and beat the shit out of them.
This calls for a # 1: This time.
Posted by: greyrooster at January 03, 2005 06:54 PM (XioYD)
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Jack,
Caps off. Please.
Posted by: Venom at January 05, 2005 03:34 PM (dbxVM)
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Dr Jack.
Do you really believe Sharon and Blair read this blog? I wish.
Posted by: greyrooster at January 05, 2005 04:05 PM (sqa1t)
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Thanks Chad. Just because Bush was at his residence doesn't mean he wasn't on top of things. He probably was the first of any head of state who was on the phone and in that special room with tv's and got everything in their groove faster than anyone else.
NOW WHAT YOU SHOULD WORRY ABOUT IS GEORGE BUSH HAS ASKED CONGRESS AGAIN FOR ANOTHER $100,000 FOR THE TROOPS IN IRAQ AND AGAIN, THEY HAVE DENIED IT.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at January 05, 2005 05:06 PM (D39Vm)
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Brian B: ahhhhhaaaaahaha
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at January 05, 2005 05:59 PM (D39Vm)
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