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To: Ilaine who wrote (92788)	12/29/2004 3:41:56 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793731

Same reason the Bush Admin should not work with the UN...we should work directly with reputable agencies on the ground over there right now to make sure the $$$ goes where it is needed, not to those corrupt scumbags at the UN.... J.

To: Ilaine who wrote (92788)	12/29/2004 4:11:37 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793731

This is exactly the same BS they pulled over the victims of 9/11. They used it as an excuse to raise general operation funds. I don't think that's what's going on. They just don't want to throw unneeded money at, say, Florida just because they got a ton of extra money earmarked for Florida when there's a less subscribed disaster going on somewhere else. Some disasters are over-subscribed and some under-subscribed and they want the latitude to provide water and blankets in the under-subscribed one rather than caviar for the over-subscribed one.