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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (70361)	1/2/2005 11:03:38 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Famines in Africa have killed millions, then there is this: The planet's deadliest earthquake of the century, by far, was a magnitude 8.0 that struck Tianjin , China, on July 27, 1976. The official casualty figure issued by the Chinese government was 255,000, but unofficial estimates of the death toll were as high as 655,000. and U.S. losses of life are dwarfed by flood losses in other parts of the world. China and Bangladesh have been devastated repeatedly by floods - Bangladesh lost 300,000 people in November 1970 and more than 130,000 in April 1991, from cyclone-induced flooding, and the massive flooding of the Yangtze River in China in 1931 caused more than 3 million deaths from flooding and starvation. The internet, the novelty of the disaster, and European tourists, helped elevate the interest in this disaster- and interest equals dollars. Disaster relief, like everything else in life, won't be fair. As for Bush being blamed, I don't really see how he can be, when so many countries are sending money. Bush can be blamed for things he clearly has control over (the Iraq war for example), but I don't see most people blaming him for AID snafus. Obviously there are a small contingent of people who will blame him no matter what, just as there seemed to a contingent doing that to Clinton (and quite frankly those people are still going, like demented little energiser bunnies).