Posted on 12/02/2011 5:48:06 PM PST by Kaslin
World Health: At a star-studded gala Thursday, President Obama drew big praise from AIDS activists and NGOs for expanding AIDS-fighting programs. But the real accomplishment rests with his predecessor, President Bush.
After quietly helping to save 30 million lives from the scourge of AIDS across the African continent, it would seem that higher honors would be in store for Bush, whose AIDS initiatives there have been an astonishing success.
Obama, to his credit, acknowledged Bush in his World AIDS Day speech Thursday, as have serious-minded Africa advocates including rock singer Bono.
But among the garden-variety NGOs, media elites or activist groups, Bush gets little credit. While President Bush was in Zambia to begin a new effort to save lives on a women's anti-cancer initiative, the increasingly unhinged Amnesty International was busy screeching for Bush's arrest over there for his supposed "war crimes."
The fact remains that Bush saved millions of lives, not just the 50 million Muslims he brought freedom to, but the 30 million Africans he helped to save from AIDS.
He never got recognition for one of the most successful foreign aid initiatives ever, certainly not the Nobel Peace Prize President Obama won for doing nothing in 2009. Bush's accomplishment should be better known.
A decade ago, Africa was literally dying. While the rest of the world advanced through free market reforms in the last two decades, Africa was left out, in no small part because so many of its people were either dying of AIDS or expecting to die. This curse made development or hope in the future nearly impossible.
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Yes.However, he has stood by and said ZERO while zero is destroying this country. He’s abdicated his position as a former POTUS - however, what good would it do if he spoke up? Wouldn’t it just be fodder for endless arguments? Aren’t there enough others who can speak about this more articulately?
I sort of think Bush had a specific mission and that was fulfilled. It’s time for the rest of us to find the person for the next mission.
If you know anything about the Bushes - both of them - you know that. The very last thing either of them has ever had in mind for a post-presidency is to violate tradition by being critics of their successors.They leave that sort of low class behavior to Democrats. They take no public notice of it.I call to mind the aftermath of Kennedy's Bay of Pigs fiasco. Kennedy had fecklessly sent the mission forward while chickening out on providing the air cover on which the mission was predicated. Thereby getting all the odium of having launched the attack, without winning the battle. What do you suppose that President, renowned four-star general, Eisenhower thought of that!
Kennedy's prestige was eviscerated, and he summoned Eisenhower to help him out of the hole he had just dug. Reportedly they took a walk at Camp David and Eisenhower privately reamed Kennedy out as he deserved - then they held a joint news conference at which Eisenhower lent his still-enormous prestige to putting the best face on things for Kennedy. Eisenhower did that for the country - just as Nixon had, for the good of the country, refused to contest the fraudulent razor-thin victory which Kennedy eked out with the help of the Daley machine in Chicago.
What a wonderful concept - a POTUS, past present or future, working for the good of the country and not himself first. Seems to me that ended with Al Gore and Florida.
Your story about Eisenhower and Kennedy was a good one!
“What do you suppose that President, renowned four-star general, Eisenhower thought of that!”
He would have thought that you had shorted him one star.
“What do you suppose that President, renowned four-star general, Eisenhower thought of that!”He would have thought that you had shorted him one star.
I am astonished that you are correct and that I hadn't known, and don't retrospectively remember having known, that.Interesting to learn in Wiki that George Washington was in 1976 posthumously promoted to the rank of "General of the Armies of the United States."
“The fact remains that Bush saved millions of lives, not just the 50 million Muslims he brought freedom to, but the 30 million Africans he helped to save from AIDS.
He never got recognition for one of the most successful foreign aid initiatives ever, certainly not the Nobel Peace Prize President Obama won for doing nothing in 2009. Bush’s accomplishment should be better known.
A decade ago, Africa was literally dying. While the rest of the world advanced through free market reforms in the last two decades, Africa was left out, in no small part because so many of its people were either dying of AIDS or expecting to die. This curse made development or hope in the future nearly impossible.”
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God bless and protect George W. Bush and Laura
always.
He’s never needed lamestream acclaim or notice; as
the good and decent man he is, he intuitively knows
his place and what a caring believer is called to do
on this earth where he can.
Yet this blatant lack of even the smallest notice or
praise for the truth by them only continues to prove
to the rest of the world how small and petty the media,
especially the American press, truly are.
Well, WE know and things like just don’t bother him or Laura! :)
‘..He never got recognition for one of the most successful foreign aid initiatives ever, certainly not the Nobel Peace Prize President Obama won for doing nothing...’
exactly, Star. Thank you for your wonderful words about President Bush’s life saving accomplishments. The narrow minded liberal media and the far left radicals will never acknowledge the genuine good President Bush has done for so many. But, as you say, he doesn’t need their approval because he knows the only approval that matters is that of The LORD.
It seem we waste gazillions of dollars in foreign aid every year.
I’m proud that President Bush’s iniative to fight Aids in Africa has been successful thus far. Check out the pictures on the Day of the Life in President Bush thread of the overwhelminglyl positive response that he rec’d on his most recent visit there. They LOVE him!! He is a hero there, and justly so.
It seem we waste gazillions of dollars in foreign aid every year.
I’m proud that President Bush’s iniative to fight Aids in Africa has been successful thus far. Check out the pictures on the Day of the Life in President Bush thread of the overwhelminglyl positive response that he rec’d on his most recent visit there. They LOVE him!! He is a hero there, and justly so.
It's not just the media who ignore GWB's many accomplishments. So many people on the political Right do also. He is hated here on FR, and if this place is any true representative of conservatives around the country, GWB has been rejected by the very people who should most understand and praise the totality of his record. That they don't disgusts me beyond measure.
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