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The Victims Of The Tsunami Pay The Price Of War On Iraq

Posted on Wednesday, January 05 at 14:01 by 4Canada
Published on Tuesday, January 4, 2005 by the Guardian/UK US and British aid is dwarfed by the billions both spend on slaughter by George Monbiot The US government has so far pledged $350m to the victims of the tsunami, and the UK government £50m ($96m). The US has spent $148 billion on the Iraq war and the UK £6bn ($11.5bn). The war has been running for 656 days. This means that the money pledged for the tsunami disaster by the United States is the equivalent of one and a half day's spending in Iraq. The money the UK has given equates to five and a half days of involvement in the war. Full article: http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0104-28.htm [ changed the blurb text here to reflect the actual content. -- JvH ]

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  1. by Anonymous
    Thu Jan 06, 2005 2:01 am
    So? If no money was spent to help the victims, the disparity would be even greater. Would you be happy about that? What is it about the left that sees the glass not even half full but always empty? Do they eat bitterness for breakfast, gall for lunch and a big helping of hatred for dinner? And I can guess what the seasoning is -- cynicism, sarcasm and futility.

  2. by Anonymous
    Thu Jan 06, 2005 2:14 am
    Maybee they just see that 180,000 dead from natural disasters is not so different from 100,000 dead by (someones) CHOICE...It is also interesting to note that this tsunami is distracting peoples attention from the ongoing disaster in Iraq. Hey anon troll, when you setting up the Iraqi war relief fund? Will the US and UK pay reparations for all the damage they are doing???

  3. by Anonymous
    Thu Jan 06, 2005 2:20 am
    hey yourself, troll - is it not obvious that the violence in Iraq would stop if the suicide bombers and other killers would stop blowing up people and things?

    A person has to pretend to be extremely dumb to believe that the US wants violence to continue in Iraq.

    Terrorists and their leftist sympathizers want violence, but everyone else is tiring of it.

  4. by Anonymous
    Thu Jan 06, 2005 2:25 am
    The Victims of the Tsunami Pay The Price of a Bloated Canadian Health Bureaucracy - Ten minutes of government health care spending in Canada would surpass all our aid contributions. Privatization of health care to realize greater efficiency is the obvious answer.

  5. by anarcho
    Thu Jan 06, 2005 2:44 am
    Like in the US where they pay 14% of their GDP on a system that ignores 40% of the population and Canada pays 10% and has universal coverage. And what you call "privatization" is correctly called "corporatization" (rich folks socialism), A-non. Corporatization is nothing more than a scam to shift tax payer money over to huge corporations rather than having it pay decent wages to health care workers.

  6. by 4Canada
    Thu Jan 06, 2005 3:54 am
    A NON,

    You obviously miss the point that all these war dollars could buy peace or be ready for a natural disaster rather than spending obscene amounts of money on an intentional disaster.

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    "Yeah, well, [Mr. President] we used all five fingers because that's the way our mittens are made." Antonia Zerbisias

  7. by 4Canada
    Thu Jan 06, 2005 3:58 am
    A NON,

    With that responce you cannot be interested in nor looking for an answer to peace. With that responce you can only be interested in your own selfish interests.

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    "Yeah, well, [Mr. President] we used all five fingers because that's the way our mittens are made." Antonia Zerbisias

  8. by Dave Ruston
    Thu Jan 06, 2005 5:38 am
    Oh, yeah, that`s a good one, get rid of public health care to aid Tsunami victims as opposed to stopping war to aid tsunami victims. In the US last year, 600,000 bankruptcies were due to people being unable to pay their medical bills.

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    Dave Ruston

  9. by Anonymous
    Thu Jan 06, 2005 2:14 pm
    I never get tired of correcting this. That 100,000 figure has been completely discredited. Do a little research rather than repeating the memes from the last protest demonstration where a couple dozen people gathered with snot frozen to their noses.

  10. by Anonymous
    Thu Jan 06, 2005 2:15 pm
    Here is how response is spelled.

  11. by Anonymous
    Thu Jan 06, 2005 5:15 pm
    And I suppose the million dead by USUK sanctions and ten years of bombing and dU from the first illegal invasion and destruction of infrastructure is a fabrication too. The only discrediting of the 100,000 number I've seen is that it's an underestimate.

  12. by avatar Jesse
    Thu Jan 06, 2005 7:09 pm
    Thank you very much for your spelling expertise; nothing in the world will ever get fixed if we don't spell it correctly! I am glad you took the time to post something that insightful.

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    Canadians are asking, why do americans hate us? They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to disagree with each other.

  13. by Anonymous
    Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:52 pm
    They were UN sanctions, my friend. The global community came together to try to force a murderous dictator to comply with the agreements he made to end the first Gulf War, one of which was not to pursue WMD. Provision was made for Iraq to buy food and medicine, but Saddam preferred tacky palaces and his people suffered and died as a result (although none of his tribal members did). As time passed, France and Germany and other corrupt parties cheated and around $11 billion was diverted into some pretty unsavory pockets. Canada is a slavish devotee of the UN so I would have thought sanctions -- a peaceful alternative to war, after all -- would appeal to you.

  14. by Anonymous
    Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:55 pm
    Muddy thinking is often the result of the bad use of language. The good use of language begins with knowing how to spell. It's evident from your postings this is not a consideration for you and explains a lot of other things.



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