Note that he is in DC. It took five days for someone from the administration to go across town to the embassies to express America's grief and sympathy for this incredible loss of life?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/041230/480/dcsa10112301618Thu Dec 30,11:21 AM ET
AP
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) extends the sympathy of the American people and President Bush (news - web sites) for the losses from the tsunami tragedy as he signs a book of condolences at the Embassy of Thailand in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004. Beside him is a photograph of 21-year-old Poom Jensen, the Thai-American grandson of King Phumiphon, who was killed as the tidal wave stuck the resort areas of southern Thailand. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)