Posted on 05/31/2008 2:50:47 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
Mr Bush wrote that the July 7-9 summit of the Group of Eight major industrial powers, to be held in Japan, needed to take concrete action to tackle AIDS and other scourges afflicting Africa.
"My message to my fellow leaders will be that our past promises are just empty words unless we provide meaningful follow-through," Mr Bush wrote.
"And if we do, we can continue to help save lives and spread hope across the continent of Africa."
Mr Bush said the US was doubling aid to Africa by 2010 and highlighted a $US15 billion ($A15.7 billion) AIDS relief fund launched in 2003.
"These efforts rarely make headlines in the United States. But when you go to Africa, the difference we are making is visible," he said.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in the same newspaper, called for the G8 summit to commit money to expand education in Africa.
"The world cannot make a better investment than in the education of its children," Brown said.
Bono urged Japan to use the G8 summit to push forward the goal of halving extreme poverty in the world by 2015.
The U2 frontman praised Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's pledge to double Japanese aid to Africa but regretted that Tokyo's overall foreign assistance has been declining.
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Bush in his closing days as POTUS wants to rob and steal even more money from “The Rich” in America to give away so he and his leftist friends can feel good...
These crooks are making me sick. Don’t they understand there are limits.
I regret that I ever voted for him.
screw bono....he is always trying to spend US tax payers money...
yet he is a tax evader from Ireland....let him spend some of his own funds!!!!
It would be more useful to topple a few corrupt governments in Africa, such as Zimbabwe, Kenya, Nigeria... heck, the whole lot of them could use a cleaning out.
The single biggest thing Africa needs is DDT. Moreover, if anybody has any they’d be willing to sell, I’d be interested.
Speaking of Bono, is Sonny Bono’s widow still in Congress?
Colonial Africa was relatively prosperous, peaceful and allowed the indigenous people to live a reasonable life without much fear of slaughter. "Free" Africa has been a mess from day one. i guess soem cannot hadle freedom and self determination. How long before South Africa implodes?
5h!+. This is going to cost us. Whenever any politician makes a call to action, you know you're screwed.
We have the same problem here in this country except everyone is afraid to address it. How many other countries have this problem?
Go get $$$$ from the damn liberals that caused this mess
well, the voting record of 90 pct of blacks shows they wish are not comfortable with freedom.
Same applies to about 50 pct of whites.
you are factually wrong, in the african colonies, there was wholesale slaughter of the Natives. Several things ruined Africa...
1) An Abrupt shift in power - the colonialists never built up the necessary structures in the colonies for them to depend on themselves.
2) The World Bank/IMF/Dictator relationship - These global institutions knew various African dictators were outright stealing from the money, but kept on giving it to them. So the majority of Africans are stuck in a financial disaster that they aren’t responsible for.
And we should learn from these mistakes, because they will provide us with lessons about Iraq, Afghanistan and the entire Middle East. The Brilliance of Bush is he’s doing the difficult work in Iraq, our troops are preventing a wholesale slaughter and letting the politics work itself out. It’s messy, it’s costing America dollars and lives, but it will leave us with an independent, stable Iraq. Short term cost against long term gain.
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