>>Here's a thing I heard. USA did'nt want help period. An explanation given for that reaction is that USA is the BIG country. The one dictating the rules all over the world. So with that in mind President Bush thought that americans would be able to handle it all by themselves. They probably could but I think that they underestimated what had to be done FAST. So after re-evaluating they accepted help from all other countries offering help.
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>>This is a theory and there are many others. Anyways one thing for sure is that this is a very complex situation.
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>I've watching CNN, FOX and other network news pretty regularly including the internet, but I haven't heard this bit of news. If it's true why wasn't it on the news? Where did you hear it?

Denis may be taking a little poetic license with whatever might have been going on in Bush's mind.

It was certainly in the newspapers here. According to the reports, when Martin called Bush and offered whatever help Bush might need, Bush said he didn't need any help, but in all fairness, I'm pretty sure the reports implied that he didn't want any help yet.