Giuliani rejects Alwaleeds money, but does he have the moral highground?

[waterj2]

Also, I believe the total I saw for the amount of money publicly pledged was $950 million. Which is almost 100 times the prince’s donation. Which is more than enough to keep every victim (even including the 7,000 or whatever injured) solvent for a month or two. Or at the very least, that last 1% isn’t going to break them.

And that’s not even counting insurance benefits.

[mswas]

I rescind my point, as if the Prince truly wanted the money to go somewhere he would donate it, or even set up his own fund. He could get the money where it needed to go and Giuliani could not stop him. So I guess there is a point there. Though I am not going to claim that the 2000 is worth the statement because I am just not in that position.

Erek

[Zenster]

*Originally posted by Miaowara Tomokato *
**I tried to see the other side of this, because I try to look beyond the patently obvious, i.e. “the prince was looking to go home and tell the faithful that he scattered some alms before the beggarly Americans and then gave them a dose of what-for.” That’s what it looked like, so I tried to see beyond it.

Maybe, just maybe, I thought, the prince was doing two things that were unrelated in his mind. One, if you’re going to a disaster scene and you’re a prince you give a lot of money, because that’s what princes do. Two, be sure to do something that will allow you to say to the folks at home that you did your bit to correct the unwise Americans. Maybe, I thought, I should not look for malice where clumsiness will do. Maybe he didn’t know that we’d see the donation as his buying of a soapbox.

Nope, I then told myself. I just don’t buy it. The prince was given a Western education in addtion to that of his own country, and he would have known how we’d react. Even if he didn’t, he has PR people for that sort of thing.

I am happy to state, however, that the ten million dollars did more good by being refused than it ever would have done by being accepted. **

The Saudis and their Wahabbist clerics are as much to blame as the Taleban for the atrocity in New York. How revolting. Their money cannot and should not buy a penny’s absolution for the crime against humanity that has been perpetrated by the perverted lunatics the Saudis have helped to breed. They seek to buy off blackguards like bin Laden with one hand as they profer their filthy lucre with the other. May they rot in Hell.