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To: epicure who wrote (92365)	1/3/2005 1:02:10 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I think the problem is that Bush did not strike soon enough or graciously enough when the disaster began. He is really disengaged when he is on vacation. Then when he realized (or was told) how serious the situation was, that U.N. guy had already called the United States stingy, and coughing up what in all fairness is a lot of money, although it is not as big as the Japanese contribution, didn't have the impact it would have had coming a bit earlier in the game. Editorials had already been written, journalists had reported all the other promised aid funding that America had pledged but not paid on time, and things got rather messy.