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Bush billions designed to buy stability
The Scotsman ^
| July 5, 2003
| The Scotsman
Posted on 07/05/2003 5:51:18 PM PDT by ejdrapes
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To: Southack
It's all completely predictable.It sure is.
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posted on
07/06/2003 11:02:48 AM PDT
by
rdb3
(Nerve-racking since 0413hrs on XII-XXII-MCMLXXI)
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To: freedomsnotfree
"It's not HIS money to send.
Sure it is. The headline says it is Bush's billions.
From your pocket, into the compassionate conservative's pocket.
On a related thread, Fox news reporting that Taylor in Liberia is stepping down. Bet he walks off with a boatload of money from this AIDS in Africa slushfund Bush has created.
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posted on
07/06/2003 11:04:05 AM PDT
by
Jesse
To: ejdrapes
What? Did I read this correctly? "Bush billions designed to buy stability" What a crock!
That is my tax money he is sending wasting over there, not his.
I don't want a red-cent sent over to Africa. Especially when our border with Mexico is wide open, and the influx of illegal aliens is tearing apart this country.
No Conservative President would flush taxpayer monies down the toilet like this. It is becoming obvious that GWB is not a Conservative, and is a RINO at best.
Shame on you GWB.
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posted on
07/06/2003 11:12:02 AM PDT
by
Duramaximus
( American Born, Gun_Toting , Aerospace Worker Living In A State That Worships Socialism)
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To: Southack
Africa ought to be wealthy. It is fertile (outside of the Sahara) and has vast amounts of oil and other natural resources. The thing that it is missing is democracy and the rule of law.
If Bush can jumpstart that, then perhaps Africa can quit being a beggar continent and take its rightful place on the world stage.
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posted on
07/06/2003 11:23:42 AM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Dog Gone
"If Bush can jumpstart that, then perhaps Africa can quit being a beggar continent and take its rightful place on the world stage."Indeed.
It's impressive to watch what Bush is doing by demanding that the African nations **work** for their new aid and investment monies.
They have to take concrete action to insure that Mugabe steps down in Zimbabwe, and they have to reform their educational and aid systems, for instance.
Well, once you've got the beggar working, he's already on the road to full recovery.
It's the money-for-nothing that's such a problem, and that's just been ended (save for the pitances that guilty Europe freely gives Africa).
That's precisely how to jump start Africa's recovery.
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posted on
07/06/2003 11:29:50 AM PDT
by
Southack
(Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: meenie; freedomsnotfree
I agree with both of you. I was taught charity begins at home. Well There are plenty of problems here in America that need fixing first. But more to the point. This article reads like a " American Guilt" trip from paragraph one. Don't appreciate it one iota. The "Europeans" have as much guilt to share as America. Matter of fact so does the whole world. The Europeans were the prime benefactors of that "trade." So don't lay a guilt trip on the USA. The End of slavery is a "western" ideal. One further note, If not for the British fleet cut backs the slave trade ,now thriving, off the horn of Africa, would not exisit. How do these "African Leaders" purportedly Deal with that? Or are they?
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posted on
07/06/2003 4:13:48 PM PDT
by
Madcelt
(Tis better to starve free,than live a fat slave- Aesop)
To: rdb3; Southack
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posted on
07/06/2003 4:36:31 PM PDT
by
Madcelt
(Tis better to starve free,than live a fat slave- Aesop)
To: Southack
And of course, the far-Right Buchanonites and utterly-mad Libertarians will no doubt decry Bush's every possible use of tax-payer funds, Utterly Mad Libertarian: I decry Bush's every possible use of tax-payer funds
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posted on
07/07/2003 10:24:45 AM PDT
by
AdamSelene235
(Like all the jolly good fellows, I drink my whiskey clear....)
To: AdamSelene235
The commemts by the so-called conservatives criticizing the Buchananites and Libertarians for their views show how far to the left conservatism has drifted. Rockefeller Republicanism is back in vogue for many. It took one term for Bush one to destroy the good will Reagan established with his conservative principles. It is taking Bush two the same length of time to destroy the good will he had when he took office from the Liar-in Chief.
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posted on
07/07/2003 5:25:00 PM PDT
by
meenie
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