From Friday’s Wall Street Journal Washington Wire:
“PR BONANZA? U.S. adversaries draw wide attention by joining international effort to offer help with Katrina relief.
The Bush administration rebuffs Iran’s conditional offer of 20 million barrels of oil while remaining mum on Cuba’s pitch to send 1,500 doctors and nurses.
Venezuela’s Chávez, deriding Bush as “king of vacations,” mixes offers of aid workers with oil shipments.
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if there was some way for the American people to find out about it.
Truly.
It’s kind of buried in the Washington Wire stories. I wish we’d take it. God knows we need it.
I am pretty sure America has already rejected the Chavez offer and simply couldn’t imagine this administration under any circumstances accepting Irans offer. They may even be too prideful to accept the generous Cuban offer.
If the Bush administration refuses to take action then at the very least they should allow others to participate in the rebuilding and the relieving of the pain that has been caused to so many people.
To be fair Cuba recently rejected American help for another disaster (although not one of the same degree as Katrina) but Iran accepted help from the States after the Earthquakes in Bam.
As a “God fearing Christian” Bush should take the advice of King Solomon, “Pride cometh before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall”.