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2008-02-18 Africa Subsaharan
Bush basks in African praise
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Posted by Steve White 2008-02-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ]  Top

#1 $ 698m is roughly 3 time their annual GNP. Certainly worthy of a hand clap in "W's" direction I'd say. Hope it isn't forgotten about by the time he gets back to D.C.
Posted by Besoeker 2008-02-18 01:38||   2008-02-18 01:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Vipi Mambo!
Posted by Wheng and Tenille1721 2008-02-18 01:41||   2008-02-18 01:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Hope it isn't forgotten about by the time he gets back to D.C.

Pollyanna
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-02-18 02:25||   2008-02-18 02:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Because of the U.S. anti-malaria program, 5 percent of patients tested positive for the disease on the offshore islands of Zanzibar in 2007 compared to 40 percent three years earlier, the Tanzanian leader said.

I thought malaria was a lifelong condition. If so, then where did the 35% of those with malaria go?
Posted by gorb 2008-02-18 03:32||   2008-02-18 03:32|| Front Page Top

#5 You can just hear the Reuters reporter gritting his teeth writing this article.
Posted by gromky 2008-02-18 04:09||   2008-02-18 04:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Made me sick to my stomach, Super "W" flying into Africa to tell the Africans to 'buck up, suck it up, and take better care of themselves and the land' as he warn of the days coming where the weaning off the teats is approaching! If "W" is so concerned over the 'endless' dollars draining out of the American pie in this recession and to this continent, then just maybe he should land in central America and Mexico on the way back! African illegal aliens?? I would love to see the many senoritas with Bush ladened halter bosoms welcoming him down under. Bush won't get this kind of treatment in Mexico? Okay...I may be naive, but I still think he's doing it (the trip) to keep from twiddling his thumbs, following the election results and the downturn of the economy.
Posted by smn 2008-02-18 04:31||   2008-02-18 04:31|| Front Page Top

#7 But Obama is the guy they want in the White House next. He'll give them even more money.
Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore  2008-02-18 07:17||   2008-02-18 07:17|| Front Page Top

#8 
Because of the U.S. anti-malaria program, 5 percent of patients tested positive for the disease on the offshore islands of Zanzibar in 2007 compared to 40 percent three years earlier, the Tanzanian leader said.


Holy crap!

And yet the left considers Bush a monster...
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2008-02-18 09:21||   2008-02-18 09:21|| Front Page Top

#9 From No Pasaran, Wednesday, October 19, 2005:

Won't Bono ever learn? Again, he meets with an infamous character, sharing lunch at the doofus's home (a tip o' the hat to RV).

In his conversations with Michka Assayas, the rock star and champion of the poor speaks of previous meetings in the White House and Washington:

I was in a photo with President Bush because he’d put $10 billion over three years on the table in a breakthrough increase in foreign assistance called the Millennium Challenge. I had just got back from accompanying the president as he announced this at the Inter-American Development Bank.

I kept my face straight as we passed the press corps, but the peace sign was pretty funny. He thought so, too. Keeping his face straight, he whispered, “There goes a front page somewhere: Irish rock star with the Toxic Texan.”

I think the swagger and the cowboy boots come with some humour. He is a funny guy. Even on the way to the bank he was taking the piss. The bulletproof motorcade is speeding through the streets of the capital with people waving at the leader of the free world, and him waving back.

I say: “You’re pretty popular here!”

He goes: “It wasn’t always so . . .” — Oh really? — “Yeah. When I first came to this town, people used to wave at me with one finger. Now, they found another three fingers and a thumb.”

So you liked this man?

Yes. As a man, I believed him when he said he was moved to also do something about the Aids pandemic. I believed him. Listen, I couldn’t come from a more different place, politically, socially, geographically. I had to make a leap of faith to sit there. He didn’t have to have me there at all. But you don’t have to be harmonious on everything — just one thing — to get along with someone.

…What was your gut feeling the first time you came face to face with President Bush?

He was very funny and quick. Just quick-witted. With him, I got pretty quickly to the point, and the point was an unarguable one — that 6,500 people dying every day of a preventable and treatable disease [Aids] would not be acceptable anywhere else in the world other than Africa, and that before God and history this was a kind of racism that was unacceptable.

And he agreed: “Yeah, it’s unacceptable.” He said: “In fact, it’s a kind of genocide.”

He used the word “genocide”, which I took to imply our complicity in this, which I absolutely agree with. Later, his staff tried to take the edge off the word. But in the Rose Garden there was press, and I already had used the word.

He really helped us in using that word. He knew it was hyperbole, but it was effective. We get on very well. I couldn’t come from a more different place. We disagree on so many things. But he was moved by my account of what was happening in Africa. He was engaged.

I think, when I’m sitting two feet from someone, I could tell if this was just politics. This was personal. I think, for all the swagger, this Texan thing, he has a religious instinct that keeps him humble.

You mean that right-wing fundamentalist neocon scary stuff?

Actually, he’s a Methodist. It has to be said that most of the people in the cabinet are not religious extremists.

But you must have disagreed with him at some point.

He banged the table at me once, when I was ranting at him about the ARVs [Aids drugs] not getting out quick enough. I’m Irish. When we get excited we don’t pause for breath, no full stops or commas. He banged the table to ask me to let him reply. He smilingly reminded me he was the president. It was a heated debate. I was very impressed that he could get so passionate. And, let’s face it, tolerating an Irish rock star is not a necessity of his office.

Could you imagine Her Inevitableness in this situation?
Posted by Procopius2k 2008-02-18 10:46||   2008-02-18 10:46|| Front Page Top

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