"The immediate terror associated with the tsunamis and the earthquake itself may be dwarfed by the longer term suffering of the affected communities," said David Nabarro, the top official at the World Health Organisation dealing with humanitarian crises.
"There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we had dying from the tsunami,"
...the tragedy struck not only the poor eking out a living on Asia's coasts, but the rich holidaying on tropical islands once considered paradise and now doomed to be known as paradise lost.
~What an earthquake did to human life in a manner of minutes took George Bush and the US Military almost a full year. Imagine if our charismatic leaders had power like that? Would "Operation Iraqi Freedom" be supported then?
Posted by Cieciel at December 29, 2004 10:59 PM