Helping Earthquake victims would be nice way to fight terrorism!

Much more effective way to win hearts and minds. I'm just sayin'...

seems a bit like extortion to me

it's like the people who said we wouldn't have had 9-11 if we'd fed all the poor people, hello, osama bin laden is not poor, he has hundreds of millions of dollars

you can't buy affection, you can only buy contempt

If you promised it would improve BushCo's popularity, you can bet we'll have an earthquake, soon.

Over 87,000 dead, over 65,000 injured, over 3.5 million homeless and threatened with freezing temperatures as the snows come in to the Himalayas. According to the UN, there's not enough tents in the WORLD to shelter all the homeless.

If aid does not come now, millions will freeze to death.

UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- One month after a massive quake rocked South Asia, the top U.N. humanitarian official called it a "race against time" to help more than 200,000 people in the higher mountainous regions of Pakistan.

Predictions for an "unusually harsh winter" meant the roughly 200,000 people above the snow line in Kashmir and the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan were in urgent need of help, Jan Egeland, U.N. Emergency Relief coordinator, said on Monday.

"We have to face what is happening now in Kashmir," he said. "What is particularly difficult in Kashmir is, of course, that people freeze to death if they don't get assistance in weeks."

The U.N. official said it was even more urgent to help survivors hit by the October 8 quake than survivors of hurricanes or tsunamis or even Africa, because of the freezing temperatures.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/11/07/so.asia.quake/

PLEASE check out this DU Quake Donation Thread - These people need your help!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5251724&mesg_id=5251724