Documented Foreign aid for katrina disaster

[Reschke]

Boroda,

For what its worth I hope that our government opens up their little mind and accepts your nations help. Just because some nation isn't on the best of terms with another nation should not come into play when lives are at stake.

[cpxxx]

America is the richest most powerful country in the world. You don't need help from the rest of us. But I hope that any offer of aid is taken in the spirit it was offered and no stupid pride or arrogance should interfere with it reaching the people who need it.

This is an enormous disaster and all help should be taken.

[Mukiwa]

Condoleeza Rice:

"Today, we are seeing a similar urgent, warm and compassionate reaction from the international community in response to Katrina," Rice told a news conference.

Rice said no aid had been turned down and she was particularly moved by an offer from Sri Lanka, itself recovering from last year's Indian Ocean tsunami.

"Every contribution is important," said Rice, who plans to visit some of the stricken areas over the weekend in Alabama, where her own family comes from.


Embassies in the U.S. capital have swamped the department with offers, ranging from cash donations to helicopters, tents and medical teams.

While help has come from longtime American friends such as Japan, Germany, Canada, France and Britain, offers have also been made by critics of the U.S. government, including Cuba and Venezuela.

Cuban President Fidel Castro, calling a "truce" in Havana's ideological enmity with Washington, offered to fly 1,100 doctors to Houston with 26 tons of medicine to treat people in the disaster area.

Castro's leftist ally, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered to send cheap fuel but the State Department said a decision had not been made on whether to accept this offer.

In Mexico City, a Foreign Ministry official told reporters Mexico was sending 15 truckloads of water, food and medical supplies via Texas, and the Mexican navy had offered to send two ships, two helicopters and 15 amphibious vehicles

The department said offers of help had been received from: Australia, Austria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Belgium, Canada, China, Columbia, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, the European Union, France, Germany, Guatemala, Greece, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, NATO, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the Organization of American States, Paraguay, Philippines, Portugal, South Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the World Health Organization.

http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=uri:2005-09-02T235528Z_01_BAU271501_RTRIDST_0_USREPORT-WEATHER-KATRINA-FOREIGN-DC.XML&pageNumber=1&summit=

[Gunslinger]

it's amazing the amount of help that has been offered.  It blows my mind that CUBA of all places has offered to send help.

I think the command section of the releif effort has to be overwhelmed.  You can't just bring in all this help in an un-organized fasion, that would create a logistical nightmare worse than trying to get supplies to thug infested flooded city.  

I HOPE they take the help, even as a gesture of good relations.

[FalconSix]

Yes, no wonder I'm disgusted by the semantics displayed by some members of this forum.

[nirvana]

Originally posted by FalconSix
Yes, no wonder I'm disgusted by the semantics displayed by some members of this forum.

Because they don't agree with what you think should be going on or is it more of a moral or ethical digust?

[Staga]

Originally posted by Gunslinger

I think the command section of the releif effort has to be overwhelmed.  You can't just bring in all this help in an un-organized fasion, that would create a logistical nightmare worse than trying to get supplies to thug infested flooded city.  
 

That's why Red Cross and UN are existing; they have plans, command structures and ways to take care of logistics in this kind of situations.

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by Staga
That's why Red Cross and UN are existing; they have plans, command structures and ways to take care of logistics in this kind of situations.

yes and that makes all the differents when their strings are pulled by 300 corrrupt polliticians all with a different agenda.

Even planning cant help when logistics go wrong.

[Redwing]

I think among other things Germany offered to send a MedEvac Airbus.. but I'm not sure what became out of that.

Anyway I hope it'll help. I donated what I could spare.

[Boroda]

Originally posted by Reschke
Boroda,

For what its worth I hope that our government opens up their little mind and accepts your nations help. Just because some nation isn't on the best of terms with another nation should not come into play when lives are at stake.

Who cares about politics when someone is in trouble?

Using foreign emergency crews can help solving some serious problems that are not a matter of availible resources.

BTW, Russian Emercom crews are quite professional, and they can work in the field without any local supplies and support. All they need is a grass field big enough to land their IL-76s.

[Torque]

it would seem waffle's syrup would be egypt.

[SFRT - Frenchy]

France is sending Mimes.

[Hangtime]

as long as they don't send jerry lewis...

mimes would be welcome replacements for the media anchorweenies.

[Raptor]

can we say France's donation is too meager? (thinking back to what France said after the tsunami)

[FalconSix]

No we can't. We would be wrong. They were right.