Possibly as many as 200,000 people will die because of the tsunami. This should unit the world in sympathy for the victims and the homeless survivors. Instead, the left is using it as an excuse to bash Bush. The last I heard, US relief efforts were going to be in excess of $150,000,000 (liberals mange to avoid mentioning this figure). This isn't enough for Eric Alterman who ignores the total amount and only looks at the amount per capita (not including private donations). Alterman also ignores the value of the military equipment we have send over.

A columnist at the Democratic Underground criticizes Bush for being on vacation when the disaster hit. That Kofi Anan was also on vacation is ok.

Others at the Democratic Underground insisted that Bush had personally caused the quake itself - possibly by dropping bombs on Iraq.

"Since we know that the atmosphere has become contaminated by all the atomic testing, space stuff, electronic stuff, earth pollutants, etc., is it logical to wonder if: Perhaps the 'bones' of our earth where this earthquake spawned have also been affected?"

The cause of the earthquake and resulting killer wave, the writer said, could be the war in Iraq. "You know, we've exploded many millions of tons of ordnance upon this poor planet," the writer said. "All that 'shock and awe' stuff we've just dumped onto the Asian part of this earth - could we have fractured something? Perhaps the earth was just reacting to something that man has done to injure it. The earth is organic, you know. It can be hurt."

Granted others jumped on this post but the message is clear - anything bad that happens in the world is Bush's fault.

There have been a few attempts to tie in global warming. The same UN official who said that the US could be more generous if we just had higher taxes also pointed out that the next tsunami will be worse because George Bush allowed global warming to raise the sea level.

This is kind of sick.

For more bad examples, look here

When you look at the Left's rush to judgment against the Bush administration for not reacting precisely according to its expectations (demands) concerning the tsunami disaster, you just have to wonder what kind of psychological forces motivate this group.

It's instructive that the very people who constantly call for a spirit of collegiality and bipartisanship have somehow managed to politicized the most apolitical of all events.

and for a rational view look here

In this largely godless age, we have a more subtle interpretation of the relation between human excess and natural disaster. Our new high priests are the environmentalists and, when the icebergs calve early or the swallows fly the wrong way, it is they who cry woe and say that it is a judgment on us all, and our wicked ways; and that is why, in the case of a colossal undersea earthquake, you can sense the silent frustration of the told-you-so scientists.

Whatever you say about the slipping of tectonic plates on the sea-bed off Sumatra, it had nothing to do with global warming. It was not caused by decadent use of Right Guard, or George W Bush, or the flouting of the Kyoto Protocol, or inadequate enforcement of the Windows and Doors Regulation of April 2002.

There may now be six billion of us crawling over the crust of the Earth, but, when things move beneath that crust, we might as well not exist for all the difference we make.