Kevin Gowen wrote:
> necoandjeff wrote:
>> Kevin Gowen wrote:
>>
>>> necoandjeff wrote:
>>>
>>>> Kevin Gowen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/436qa
>>>>>
>>>>> "Destroy the Great Satan, but after it gives us a cool few
>>>>> million!"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I wouldn't be too proud of the Great Satan's efforts. Bush has
>>>> pledged about 1/3 of what Britain has pledged, less than what Japan
>>>> has pledged and about half of what your Republican buddies are
>>>> planning to spend on their Bush party in January...
>>>
>>> $35 millions is less than 1/3 of $28 million?
>>
>>
>> Britain has pledged $96M, which is why I said "about 1/3"
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/6chwe
>
> As I noted in the text you snipped, $68 million of that is private
> donations from Britons, not from the coffers of the United Kingdom. It
> is dishonest to compare US government contributions alone with the sum
> of another country's public and private contributions.

You're forgiven for not checking out my source since the tinyurl link seems
to be broken. Here is a direct link:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1529&ncid=1529&e=13&u=/afp/20041230/wl_asia_afp/asiaquakeaid

And a direct quote from the article: The government of Britain led the field
with a pledge of 96 million dollars, followed by those of Sweden, the
Netherlands and France which offered tens of millions of dollars more than
they had previously amid charges that wealthy countries were "stingy."

Are you saying the 96 million pledged by the "government of Britain"
includes private donations? Then it is the British government that is being
dishonest, or perhaps the reporter.

Jeff