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...medical supplies, as well as $50 million in military aid, covering helicopters, cargo planes and help from troops on the ground. (Most of the Department of Defense's costs won't count against the $350 million pledge, according to State Department officials.) In Jakarta last week, Secretary of State Colin Powell said that "we will continue responding to legitimate demands until $350 [million] is reached." The $350 million offered by the White House will be drawn against existing funds for the U.S. Agency for International Development, and Congress sets that agency's budget. Any further increases in tsunami relief will...
...been in war and I've been through a number of hurricanes, tornadoes and otherrelief operations, but I have never seen anything like this." COLIN POWELL, U.S. Secretary of State, after surveying the devastation in Aceh, Indonesia, caused by the tsunami that struck...
...COLIN POWELL, Secretary of State, after traveling to Indonesia to survey the tsunami damage in Banda Aceh...
...weighed in with $810 million. Arab commentators engaged in some self-criticism, asking why Norwegians and Belgians offered so much more than Arabs to help Asia's suffering Muslims. During his visit to Indonesia, the hardest-hit country and the world's most populous Muslim nation, Secretary of State Colin Powell could not let pass an opportunity for self-congratulation. "I think it does give the Muslim world and the rest of the world an opportunity to see American generosity, American values in action," he said...
...exists, but the same cannot be said of the Bush Administration. It is hard to take seriously the criticism of the U.N. Security Council's actions regarding Iraq. Considering the comically incorrect material about Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction that was presented to the U.N. by Colin Powell, an apology seems more appropriate. The Bush Administration does not help U.S. credibility by stubbornly insisting there was a link between al-Qaeda and Saddam despite its inability to produce the slightest proof of such an unlikely alliance. Surely, reality still counts. Perhaps it's time for U.S. conservatives...