[GraniteStateConservative]

Radio Free Africa

I had no idea one didn't already exist. We must really and truly not give a fig about Africa.

[StatesEnemy]

Bush should avoid committing troops
Bush should avoid committing troops
Bush should avoid committing troops

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[Trust but Verify]

Isn't Stanley Crouch black? It must be verry cold in hell these days. What a grand President we have.

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

The speech shocked many because no Republican President since Lincoln has ever seriously addressed slavery or its consequences with such direct eloquence and depth of vision.

He said that slavery was one of the great crimes of history.

Well... let's lookup history. If I'm not mistaken, slavery was quite common in history. In fact, slavery was quite common in most societies. One good example of slave owner was Abraham. Was Abraham a criminal? Maybe he was.

Then, there were other crimes in 'history'. As we all know, most Amer-Indian empires practiced mass killings of war prisoners and sometimes their own people. They were killed/dismembered by the thousands or tens of thousands and their blood was consumed by the survivors or offered to their diverse gods. Then, let's not forget Hitler - everyone is familiar with his accomplishments. Or Stalin - he too, responsible for tens of millions of dead bodies AND for millions being sent to slave labor camps. We then have Mao's re-education efforts that killed millions of Chinese. And the Cambodian death camps where about 25% of that country population was killed.

How does African slavery compare, given the historical record? Did George Bush knowingly exaggerate or were his speech writers ignorant of history?

[gleneagle]

Of the slaves destined west for the new world, only 5% ended up in what is now the United States. Many, many more went to the caribean, Brazil etc...

[joesnuffy]

Sounded to me like the burden was put on "bad" white Christians basically the founders of our country...quite a few I suspect held slaves Pres. Bush made sure to mention rapes and torture of slaves by their "bad" Christian slave owners

It was imo a rather imflamatory speech ...

This coupled with an AIDS speech in Botswana

Does not put the onus of AIDS infection on the lifestyles of the infected/infectors..but promises tax payers money to fund treatment without really addressing the cause...
in any meaningfull way...they keep infecting/getting infected we pass out US tax dollars

Meanwhile muslims in Palestine blow up Israeli school children and get land and US tax dollars for their terrorism...

Of course this imo is merely trolling for votes with American sodomites and their pals
American muslims and their pals and American blacks and their pals...

All paid for by the US tax payer....

A tad too Clintonesque for my blood

[r9etb]

Negro Americans

Interesting term ... haven't seen it before. Is it the up-and-coming catch-phrase, or is it something Couch has coined as an alternative to "African-American"?

[nightdriver]

"In terms of Africa, Bush should avoid committing troops but focus on encouraging Africans to form a peacekeeping black African NATO comprised of soldiers from across sub-Saharan Africa."

This will showcase the fundamental problem with Africa. Tribalism.

It will be a major accomplishment if anyone can get the different countries of Africa to actually cooperate at all.

[jla]

fyi