My overdue comments on the tsunami

So, the tsunami hit almost 2 weeks ago and what have we learned? The anatomy of an underground earthquake and the resulting walls of water? How to donate money to the Red Cross online? The difference between Sri Lanka and Indonesia? Awesome.
World leaders everywhere are hocking this tsunami as the worst natural disaster of our lifetime. Colin Powell took a helicopter ride over some of the effected areas and claimed that he'd never seen anything like it. Everyday, we all gasp in disbelief and horror at how much higher the death toll has gotten since the day before. We read the stories about the dead bodies that wash up on the shore, about the vacationers who were sunbathing and then suddenly washed away and the townspeople who are lucky to be alive, but have no home and no town left. This was certainly a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad disaster...but, there are still wars going on, still people running around the earth voluntarily killing one another. This disaster has affected us little civilians...but what about those inflicting death on others? Did this whole thing mean anything to them?! Apparently not.
I can't help but be sickened by the fact that America is wasting billions of dollars in Iraq, killing people (and being killed). As of now, 156,000 people are dead from an "attack" by nature...or God, as the upcoming new American language will probably have us all saying. We're "deeply saddened" by those deaths and rushing to get medical assistance to those who are alive, but wounded. Yet, we were fine with bombing civilians in Fallujia and then cutting them off from accessing their own hospitals. If someone can give me a real explanation for this disgusting hypocrisy, I'd love to hear it (and "well, the Iraqis are our enemies and that's just what happens in a war" doesn't cut it). With all of the money in this world that is paying for destruction, we could have rebuilt these peoples' towns by now and paid for all their medical treatment.

Now, a couple little notes:
- I heard on the Democracy Now radio news program this morning that a meteorological department (or something) in Thailand could have given some warning about the tsumani (apparently, tens of thousands of lives could have been saved), but didn't because they thought the government would be mad at them for putting the country's tourism industry in jeopardy. Good one, guys.
- Also from Democracy now...the suicide bomber who blew himself up at a US military mess tent a month ago was a Saudi medical student, who came to Iraq to fight against the Americans. Damn those Iraqis! Right guys?!