Posted on 02/02/2006 10:16:10 AM PST by Cecily
WASHINGTON (AFP) - U2 frontman Bono, quoting the Koran, the Bible and rock band Dire Straits, urged President George W. Bush to boost US aid to the world's poor by some 25 billion dollars.
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"This is not about charity, it's about justice," the singer and activist told the annual US national prayer breakfast, which included Bush, members of Congress, and Muslim, Christian, and Jewish leaders.
"That's too bad, because we're good at charity," he said. "But justice is a higher standard. Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice it makes a farce of our idea of equality."
"There's no way we can look at what's happening in Africa and, if we're honest, conclude that, deep down, we would let it happen anywhere else," said the rock star, a champion of funding to fight AIDS and famine worldwide.
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>Why is it sad that Bono is doing something good?
It is sad and treasonous because the brainwashed one is giving to the enemy, and not to his own.
He's a product of Public Indoctrination Centers, aka public education.
You didn't answer my question.
Answer my question.
Nonsense.
Why is it 'our part'?
What did we do to create the issue, especially since there are other things that need our attention?
>He is not asking Bush to give personally, he is asking the country to give.
To ask the country is to ask our politicans to steal from taxpayers and give to their enemies w/o the consent of the giver.
Ahh charity with our money. Go to hell Bono!
But his opinion that the monumental U.S. aid already gives is "justice" instead of "charity" is pretentious and ridiculous.
>He is raising money to end poverty, I consider that to be a good thing.
It all depends whose poverty is being ended.
Here the problem is that this idiot is not attempting to end the poverty of his own peple, but rather of the enemy. That makes him a triple A, first-class traitor.
Don't get charitable with what is not yours to be charitable with.
Why is it 'our part'?
We have people here starving, cold, and homeless, shouldn't we help them first?
"Physician heal thyself"?
Mogadishu, Somalia.
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