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Federal Refusal of Hurricane Aid Outrages Louisiana Governor | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/28061 - broken link)
The USA did not accept most of the aid offered for political reasons.
See the Wiki page...International response to Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
...."When other countries offered the United States $854 million in cash and oil as foreign aid to help the areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina, they merely accepted 4.7% of the total aid offered, the rest went uncollected. There is no reason for not accepting the available resources, other than that aid is a political tool. The United States wanted to avoid the political influence aid has on the policies of the recipient nation."
ALMOST three-quarters of Australians want Barack Obama to win the US presidential election while only 16 per cent back John McCain, the latest snapshot of Australian attitudes to a range of foreign policy issues shows.
Who gives a CRAP about Australia!!! The AMERICAN people matter here NOT Australia, Germany,England,France or any other country. Man you liberals have it backward. The rest of the world should emulate America, not the other way around. We are still the greatest Country on the planet.
What an arrogant, insular and ethnocentric response. It seems some Americans are SO insecure they must hold up their "we're the best! we're the best!" mentality as a security blanket against the fact that in addition to the good we do, America IS fallible. America has made HUGE mistakes. America just MIGHT make another huge mistake in November by electing McCain.
Despite what this poster thinks, the rest of the world DOES matter. We rely on them, they rely on us. It's shockingly ignorant to think otherwise.
"The US public was polled separately and Americans also believe an Obama presidency would improve US relations with the world more than a McCain presidency, with 46 percent of Americans expecting relations to be improved with Obama’s election and 30 percent with McCain’s."
What an arrogant, insular and ethnocentric response. It seems some Americans are SO insecure they must hold up their "we're the best! we're the best!" mentality as a security blanket against the fact that in addition to the good we do, America IS fallible. America has made HUGE mistakes. America just MIGHT make another huge mistake in November by electing McCain.
Despite what this poster thinks, the rest of the world DOES matter. We rely on them, they rely on us. It's shockingly ignorant to think otherwise.
I know I dont give a crap what Australia thinks. I am picking a president for America, the best country in the world, not a "MESSIAH" for the rest of the world. Stop putting down America, you wonder why the world does not like us, it s because of bid mouths who do nothing but complain about America. I would rather vote for a man who fought for this county, rather than one who sat in Chicago and organized marches against it.
You folks are idiots. Do you honestly think that the countries around us has their best interest on America?
Believe it or not, yes. The well-being of America and the ECONOMY of America has a huge effect on other countries around the world.
If I was another country, I would vote for the worst candidate to bring down America so my country will be the superpower.
Well it's a good thing you're not another country.
The stupidity of Americans are unbelievable. Vote for the track record not promises. Do your research before voting and vote intelligently and not based on promises.
YOU'RE talking about the stupidity of Americans? funny.
So I assume you would like us to vote for someone with a track record like McCain - someone who bought himself the nomination by reversing ALL of his positions to align with the Bush administration? Is THAT a candidate we can trust? How about a candidate that makes snap judgement, has anger management problems and chose probably the least qualified VP candidate in US history?
That sounds like GREAT judgement!
Maybe you should re-think.
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