Reply #7: The "speech" is coming tomorrow.

[KSAtheist]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-12-28-americans-lost_x.htm?csp=34

"The Pentagon said Tuesday that it is establishing a command center at Utapao, Thailand, to support the tsunami emergency relief effort and to serve as a staging base for U.S. military and rescue aircraft.

"The focus of the mission will be to prevent further loss of life and human suffering by expeditiously applying resources to the overall relief effort," the Pentagon said in a written statement. The command center will be operated mainly by Marines of the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force.

In addition to Air Force C-130 cargo planes ferrying relief supplies to Thailand from Yokota air base in Japan, and Navy P-3 Orion surveillance aircraft operating in the vicinity of Thailand, the Navy also is dispatching the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group and the USS Bonhomme Richard expeditionary strike group to the area."

Short of brandishing a chainsaw and hacking through the debris covering the bodies, that's pretty much all we can do right now. Besides, making a PR condolence visit while they're busy pulling bodies out of trees is kind of callous, wouldn't you say.