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Originally posted by highlander
Sure other countries have offered to help... but not for free...
We've accepted Venezuela's offer for oil.
Kuwait has pledged $500b (yes that is billion), $400b in oil and $100b in humanitarian aid.
Iran's offer of oil was only in exchange for removal of trade sanctions.
We HAVE accepted other offers (albeit most are miniscule), and to say otherwise is so factually incorrect it is appalling and downright misinforming.
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Well of course it's not for free...but it's not like we don't bail any other country out of shit...whether they want us to or not. Besides, we give billions and billions of aid to other countries every year...so we're essentially just breaking even. I don't know where you've seen specific offers being accepted, but all I can see is that we accepted help late today from the U.N. (so in light of this recent news, I detract part of my previous statement). This, to me, seems like a symptom of every other way Bush, FEMA, and every other relief organization has handled this whole disaster...too little, too late. I'm sure he would've gone it alone if people hadn't become so outraged at his initial relucatance to take any help. Then again, macho posturing only gets one so far in life. As for Iran's quid pro quo offer, does it really matter? Aren't we coddling them enough already? I mean they pose 10x the threat to us that Iraq ever did and we're treating the with kid gloves. Who cares if we remove trade sanctions? We're already giving them the political equivalent of wet, sloppy blowjobs. I don't know if you've noticed, but Bush has squandered one of the largest budget surpluses in history to fund his stupid bullshit creating a MASSIVE debt. I'd think we'd bust nuts in our pants at the chance to not spend our own money. Then again...that would interfere with manifest destiny.