How many countries have offered us help after katrina?

[Skinny Shooter]

Does anyone know?
If there aren't any, it's time to cut off foreign aid and start keeping it at home.

Allen

[Ol` Joe]

I`ve heard Canada and Venezuela (suprisingly) have so far.

This was from a post on another forum. I didn`t see any links to news reports or other from of proof though.

[Hawkeye6]

On the one hand, Pres. Bush did say that we did not require international help.

On the other hand, where is that sniveling little Norwegian b*****d who worked for the UN last January? YOu know, the one who said the US was not providing enough aid to the tsunami releif and tht we should really pay higher taxes so we could. Remeber that guy? I ahve not heard anything from him yet. Doubt that I will.

[toxic111]

I've heard quite a few have offered help, or are sending money/aid workers.

Many have offered prayers and hope, I think you will be surprised on how many countries will be ready to help as needed.

As for bush saying he doesn't need help, I think he is wrong there. You are trying to rebuild an area for 500,000+ people. I think I would be wanting as much help as I could get.

I have visited NO in the past, and I don't think it will ever be the same.

[DogYeller]

On the one hand, Pres. Bush did say that we did not require international help.
You got a source for that?

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl090105usgetshelp.16cbe69d.html

[Hawkeye6]

Yep. I listened to his speach on Wednesday. Did you? Look up the transcript or check NPR for a download of it.

[DogYeller]

I listened to the speach again and there was no mention of outside help. Help an old man out here give me a link.

[Steverino]

PARIS (Reuters) - Europe will dip into its emergency stocks of gasoline to help the United States through an energy crisis that began when Hurricane Katrina smashed into Gulf coast refiners, EU governments said on Friday.
Spain and Germany said they were ready and able to send fuel across the Atlantic in an operation coordinated by the West's energy watchdog, the International Energy Agency. A U.S. government official confirmed Washington had asked for help and said most of the gasoline would come from Europe.

EU nations have watched in horror as the world's richest country struggles with the aftermath of Katrina. Thousands are feared dead and troops in the flooded city of New Orleans have been told to shoot-to-kill to crack down on looting.

Gasoline prices have soared by nearly a fifth over the past week and President George W. Bush has urged Americans to go easy on fuel. Unlike the IEA, the United States has only emergency reserves of crude and a small stockpile of heating oil.

"It's self-evident that we support the American bid," German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder told a news conference in Berlin.

But Europe's pledge of gasoline may carry a political price for Washington. Differences over trade and foreign policy have strained relations between the United States and some EU member states including Germany and France.

Schroeder expected a massive two million barrels per day of oil to be shipped to the United States over the next month. The United States has lost about one million bpd of gasoline output.

"We assume that would lead to there being sufficient energy reserves in the market and, second, we would wish the pressure on the prices of oil products to be lessened," Schroeder said.

Speaking at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Wales, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said: "Whatever the United States asks for they will be given."

IEA TO MAKE FORMAL REQUEST FOR OIL

A Spanish official told Reuters the IEA had contacted Madrid on Thursday and indicated there would be a formal request for oil on Friday. Spain wanted a "balanced proposal" involving all IEA members - 26 industrialized nations including Japan.

"We are waiting (for the IEA request) and I think we will tell them 'yes'," a spokesman at Spain's Industry Ministry said.

Crude oil prices have hit levels unseen in real terms since 1980 - the year of the Iran- Iraq war and a year after the Iranian revolution that choked off supply lines.

Prices fell by $1.67 a barrel to $67.80 on Friday on news that Europe was riding to the aid of the United States. Gasoline also eased.

But European oil will take at least 10 days to reach U.S. shores and tanker space is in short supply with many commercial ships already under charter and crossing the Atlantic.

The Paris-based IEA declined to confirm it would release oil to the United States. "We're still consulting with all our members and the damage assessment is still going on," an IEA spokeswoman said on Friday.

EU members Germany, France, Spain and Italy have substantial emergency reserves. The IEA last dipped into its emergency reserves in 1991 when a U.S.-led coalition ejected Iraqi troops from Kuwait. The agency, created after the 1973-74 oil crisis to protect consumers, must hold stocks of 90 days of net imports.

(Additional reporting by Juan Navarro and Emma Ross-Thomas in Madrid, Dave Graham in Berlin and Pieter Nielsen in Brussels)

[Skinny Shooter]

Thanks Steverino

[Hawkeye6]

Originally posted by DogYeller
I listened to the speach again and there was no mention of outside help. Help an old man out here give me a link.

Sorry, buddy. No time or interest. I know what I heard. If you want to read it, find it yourself. Friday night football beckons.

[DogYeller]

Sorry, buddy. No time or interest.
BWA hahahahahaaah

[Jack]

I heard on a news show tonite that the number of countries that have offered assistance of one kind or another to the US is now up to 60.
Condy Rice was quoted as the source of this number, at a State Dept. press conference today (Friday, 9/2), and that Condy had referred the countries to the Red Cross as the coordinating agency.

[toxic111]

It is amazing how many countries have pledged help.. p here we already have some of our best search & resuce teams down there. The PM has 3 of our navy ships loaded and ready to go. Heck I think we only have 6 ships, so that is half our fleet (:))

Even Castro has offered aid.

IF Bush will accept it, NO could be up and running again in a few months.

[Andy L]

Why in the hell would we want NO up and running again?

Man is not meant to live below sea level. Some other solution needs to be found. However, I imagine the goofy bastards will rebuild it and wait for the next one.....

Andy

[Xride]

Originally posted by Ol` Joe
I`ve heard Canada and Venezuela (suprisingly) have so far.

This was from a post on another forum. I didn`t see any links to news reports or other from of proof though.

http://storiesinamerica.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/31/235829/261

The US has blocked Canada's help.


Cuba has even offered up supplies

[8X56MS]

Kuwait and Qatar have chipped in

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168443,00.html

[DogYeller]

Afghanistan to give $100,000 for Katrina victims (http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/sep/04katrina.htm)
This is the equivalent of 100 million from some Euroweane country.

[fabsroman]

It has been almost 4 years since the World Trade center incident, and nothing has been built there.

I don't think New Orleans will be up and running any time soon. The monetarily poor residents that have left have nothing left to come back to. They have no house and no job.

The people I feel sorry for are the people that have taken these others in. With nowhere to go to, they will have no motive to leave the hospitality that has been given to them. Hence, these people are going to be stuck with the victims for quite a long time. What is Texas going to do with all the people in the Astrodome?

[Aim to maim]

Originally posted by fabsroman

The people I feel sorry for are the people that have taken these others in. With nowhere to go to, they will have no motive to leave the hospitality that has been given to them. Hence, these people are going to be stuck with the victims for quite a long time. What is Texas going to do with all the people in the Astrodome?

Sad, but probably very true. Houston (and a lot of other cities) may soon learn the truth of the old adage about no good deed going unpunished. I'd really like to look back 5 years from now and have to admit I was wrong.