The best and worst of 2004

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Margaritas prove that people are not at risk.

yep. that's exactly what i was saying. or i may have been suggesting that if we had in a knee jerk reaction sent planeloads of supplies and aid to the places seen on tv, we may have been sending it to the wrong places. there were people on the beaches the very next day. my sister's hotel was on the beach. she saw them sunbathing. she walked the beach the very next day. i don't care if you believe me or not, although you could verify some of this by looking in the news, as there have been some reports of this.

and back to the red cross and NGO aid flowing in... do you seriously not understand that government regulations require that even after funds and support had been pledged, formal requests had to be made from the governments in need before the US government could do anything? the red cross and other NGO's can go and do as they please - they are after all Non-Governmental Organizations. international politics has a set of rules that are to be followed. We gripe when they aren't followed, we can't rightly gripe when they are.