1998: Hurricane Mitch: US provided $988 million in relief aid.

[G_j]

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041230/REPOSITORY/412300361/1013/NEWS03

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The usual U.S. contribution during major disasters is 25 to 33 percent of total international aid, according to Brian Atwood, former director of the U.S. Agency for International Development during the Clinton administration. So far, the U.S. contribution is 13 percent of the $270 million in international aid that the U.N. said yesterday has been pledged since the tsunami struck. Spain has pledged $68 million, almost twice what United States has contributed so far. Japan has provided $30 million, Britain $29 million, Germany $27 million, Australia $27.6 million, France $20.5 million and Denmark $15.5 million, the U.N. reported.

The current U.S. aid also is significantly lower than in other recent natural disasters. After Hurricane Mitch in 1998, when some 9,000 were killed and 3 million were left homeless in Central America, the United States provided $988 million in relief aid.

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[mark11727]

1. Of course, we had a real president at the time...

[peace4all]

6. now the RW blow hards are criticizing Clinton

for his public statements about the disaster. :puke:

[Deja Q]

2. I am nominating this thread and I ask ALL DUers do the same.

Please do. This post deserves open visibility, for many reasons.

[arcos]

3. France has pledged more than double... and the World Bank $200m...

so it is now much less than 13%...

[mark11727]

7. There goes the French trying to make us look BAD again...

</sarcasm>

[slay]

4. But.. but.. George Bush SAYS he is a "good Christian". How can this be?

George Bush is such a liar and all around hateful person that the entire way he has handled the "American responce" to the disaster does not surprise me in the least. Only public pressure has made him "care" about the non-Christians over in Thailand, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. What a jerk.

[G_j]

5. kick