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To: RetiredNow who wrote (214330)	1/5/2005 7:35:13 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573433

I'm happy with one thing: we haven't had a single attack in the U.S. since 9/11. So what? There wasn't a single attack between 1993 and 2001 either. Clinton must have been three times better by your measurement. Bush may fail not because the vision was wrong, but because his execution was poor. What vision? Just about anyone with a brain told him this was a bad idea...including some pretty well positioned conservatives. Al

To: RetiredNow who wrote (214330)	1/6/2005 8:22:42 PM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 1573433

news.bbc.co.uk 'Collective miserliness' Arab governments, and the oil-rich Gulf states in particular, have been criticised for not pledging more for the victims - the majority of whom are Muslims from Indonesia. The United Arab Emirates has pledged $20m, and Kuwait has increased its initial pledge of $1m to $10m. Qatar has offered $25m, plus food, medical and logistical supplies. The two largest international donors are Germany, which offered $674m, and Australia, which says it will give $765m over five years. There has been public criticism from inside the Gulf states that their contributions are not generous enough when the region's huge oil revenues are taken into account. "We have to give them more; we are rich," Kuwait's Al Qabas newspaper editor-in-chief Waleed Al Nusif told the New York Times earlier this week. Lebanon's Daily Star newspaper accused governments of "collective miserliness in this hour of human need". The most-watched Arab TV station, Al Jazeera, has announced its own campaign for donations, describing the comparative paucity of aid so far as "shameful" . However, the Saudi ambassador to Britain, Prince Turki Al Faisal, denied his country's increase was a direct response to the criticism. "The initial contribution [came] initially after the news came out, so the picture was not clear to anybody as to the extent of the devastation," he told the BBC's Today programme. "Once that picture became clear, it was decided to treble the contribution," he said. The Saudi donation was not insignificant, and it outclassed the UK's offer of $96m "in terms of GDP and population numbers", he added.