"HeyBub" wrote in message
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Lord Gow333, Conservative Fullback! wrote:

Thailand tsunami - US 15 million dollars in relief money. What was
needed was 2 billion dollars. Where did it come from? Not the US.

Some sort of proof of these numbers you keep pulling out of your ass
would be just peachy.


Initially, the US contributed $350 million in immediate relief effort. As
of
Jan 2005, the President requested an additional $950 million ($1.3 billion
total).


After the entire world condemned Bush for his "stingy" response, yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanit...n_ear thquake

Scroll down to the chart titled List of Donors. See how the US stacks up.
It's not good.

Private-sector donations, mostly from the U.S., are estimated at $700
million.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/tsunami/

At least one of his numbers was correct ($2 billion). All from the U.S.

This does not include the operating expenses and salaries of 16,000
military
personnel, 26 ships, and 101 aircraft deployed in the immediate aftermath,
inasmuch as these fixed costs are otherwise allocated in the federal
budget.

His other number, 35% Holocaust deniers, is similarily flawed:

"A January 1994 Gallup Poll found that a much lower percentage,
approximately 4 percent, of those it surveyed "have real doubts about the
Holocaust..." This 4% is roughly compatible with crop-circle devotees.


"Real doubts?" Is that the same as "Absolutely certain?" "somewhat
certain?" Is that like saying "absolutely not a denier?" Stats from 1994?
Got anything in this century to quote?

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/...st/denial.html

Paul