>You must be referring to the U.S. government since Americans were donating immediately. Is the below website all lies?
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>http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/tsunami/
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>Granted, he should have spoken publicly sooner, but the U.S. was acting. Keep in mind that the United States provided $2.4 billion in food, cash, and humanitarian relief to cover the disasters for that year which amounted to 40 percent of all the relief aid given in the world that year

You're correct, I refer to the slow reaction and the relaively low contribution of a mere 350 million of the US government while the EU responded very quickly with much higher amounts. I cannot check, whether the 2.4 billion is correct, but to claim that is 40% of the aid given is not true. The total amount was way above 10 billion (i've read using google it was arround 15 billion) in which the US aids would certainly not come above 20% given).

Walter,