Foreign Aid

[raefinlay]

Wow. *hugs and thx to all people everywhere who want to help*

But. Bush, buddy, now is not the time for stubborn pride. ASK FOR HELP, moron.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168203,00.html

ETA: The story has been changed to reflect more openness on Bush's part. Turns out, he was only partially quoted the first time.

Original quote: "We're going to take care of our own business."

Current quote: "You know," he said, "we would love help, but we're going to take care of our own business as well, and there's no doubt in my mind we'll succeed."

Our media at work.

Comments

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

And we Canadians are sovery dangerous. >_< With our equipment of searching. And of rescuing. It's a wonder the world allows us to continue unsupervised.

In other news, I was flabbergasted when I read that cops in the city were pulled off search & rescue to quell looters. Argh! The stuff's gone! Just let it go and save the people! *boggles*

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

The rescue attempts are probably just an excuse to take over the world. O.O

But, yeah. *boggles*

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

*hangs head* You've seen through our plot. Wanna join us? We have cookies!

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

For cookies, I will join anything.

*venal*

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

I was flabbergasted when I read that cops in the city were pulled off search & rescue to quell looters.

I'm going to dare to be somewhat positive about this, and actually try to defend the decision. This wasn't so much for the protection of property, but once people move past taking food they need and go on to taking TVs, you're going to have people trying to take the TV from them. At some point you need to crack down on the flagrant violations of law or it'll only keep escalating and then no one will get rescued. They already had to stop evacuating one hospital because the medics were being shot at.

[ginny-t.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't hear about that. I did hear about the Wal-Mart whose gun section was entirely cleaned out. That made me quite fearful.

(Is it bad that it also gave me story ideas?)