I guess the nearly 10 million dead means nothing....
"Africa crowds greet Bush with hugs, chants of thanks"
"by Jennifer Loven, Associated Press | February 19, 2008
ARUSHA, Tanzania - President Bush was swept up in an outpouring of affection yesterday in Tanzania's rural north, where tens of thousands lined the road to see him, one woman burst into a dance of joy just from a hug and Maasai warriors leapt and chanted in his honor.
Not only do I want to puke, but he can stay there.
He won't get that here at home because we hate his lying, law-breaking, war-mongering ass!
Midway through a trek through five African nations that have benefited from US largesse, Bush spent the day in Mount Kilamanjaro's massive shadow to reinforce the strides being made with his malaria program. During stops at both a rural health complex and on a gleaming factory floor, Bush showcased real-life benefits of the US-led fight against the mosquito-borne disease that kills a million young children each year in impoverished tropical countries.
The president launched a five-year, $1.2 billion plan in 2005 to cut malaria deaths in half in the hardest-hit countries, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa. It leverages private-sector support to provide indoor spraying, cutting-edge drugs and vouchers for a 75 percent discount off the purchase of insecticide-treated bed nets. Congress so far has put $425 million into the plan and Bush says it has reached 25 million people in two years.
Vouchers for 2 million nets have been handed out in Tanzania alone. And Bush announced yesterday that the United States - in partnership with the country's government, the World Bank, and the UN-sponsored Global Fund - will start within six months distributing another 5.2 million nets in Arusha for free. That's enough, he said, to cover every Tanzanian child between ages 1and 5.
Not like I don't want to help African babies -- I do -- but how about scaling back the war profiteering so America can get some care?
As for those globalist organizations getting in there, don't like it, I don't like it at all.
"The power to save lives comes with the moral obligation to use it," he said in an open-air pavilion at the Meru District Hospital. "This is a practical way to help save lives."
Coming from a guy who has initiated two wars that have killed millions and who plans to bomb Iran to smithereens, I want to wretch!
The visit to this striking region near the Kenyan border took Bush from scrubby plains into lush foothills covered with banana trees and coffee farms and back to wide-open spaces dotted with cactus. Over all loomed Kilamanjaro, the tip of its dramatic snow-capped peak shrouded in clouds for all but the start of the day. Though the area is extremely poor, it also - with its proximity to the mountain's climbing trails and famed game parks - is a cradle of African tourism.
The region's effusive demonstration of thanks for the US drive to improve African lives dominated the day.
As Bush's motorcade sped back and forth across the region, people lined almost the entire route several deep just to watch him pass. On one stretch, locals had even strewn flowers in the road.
The president landed at the airport to a performance of Maasai women dancers. An even more flamboyant scene greeted him later at the Emusoi Center, a school for Maasai girls.
First, a group of young students in brilliant pink and blue sarongs chanted about US scholarships that - as they sang in unison - give them "the power to choose instead of being forced to marry." Many of the girls live at the school because their deeply rooted pastoral culture generally shuns modernity and integration. "Look at us, listen to our voices," they sang. "We are the Maasai girls with a chance for education."
Bush also sat down among older women, in traditional Maasai dress of colorful wraps, close-cropped hair, large white disks around their necks, white headbands, and large dangly earrings - people who were learning to read on wooden benches under a tent.
Capping his visit was a gravity-defying performance of Maasai morani, or warriors, many nearing 7 feet tall and two wearing feathered headdresses that signify the tribe's rite of passage of lion-hunting. Clad in red blankets, brandishing thin spears, and wearing red ochre face paint, the men chanted, sprang in the air, and slammed their feet back into the dust.
Bush briefly attempted to bounce and sway and mimic their undulations. He quickly gave up, laughing and embracing the smiling men."He's a MASS-MURDERER, but at least he is a NICE mass-murder, readers!
"US urges Kenya adversaries to work together for coalition"
"by Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times | February 19, 2008
NAIROBI, Kenya - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday urged Kenya's presidential rivals to set aside "personal agendas" and work together to form a coalition government....
Rice held out the promise of increased US aid for reconstruction and resettlement of more than 300,000 people displaced by tribal violence. But she said help would only come if leaders reach a political solution that results in a "Kenya that is stable, that has a legitimate government."
"The current stalemate and the circumstances are not going to permit business as usual with the United States," Rice told reporters in Nairobi after meeting with President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya and opposition leader Raila Odinga. "The time for a political settlement was yesterday."
Same with getting out of Iraq!
This Kenyan crisis a perfect excuse to set up an African military hub, too, huh?
"It can't be that there is simply the illusion of power-sharing," Rice said. "It has to be real."
As opposed to AmeriKa, of course!
The visit by Rice, who was dispatched by President Bush during his five-nation tour of Africa, is stirring anti-Western sentiments among some Kibaki supporters, who accused the United States and other countries of dictating solutions and treating Kenya like a colony. Moses Wetangula, foreign affairs minister, warned Sunday against nations that might "make a mistake of putting a gun at anybody's head." He said the process "must be a Kenyan solution."
A recent public opinion poll found that 61 percent of respondents favor a coalition government as a way of resolving the crisis, but many remain skeptical.
Yeah, because people want to live in PEACE!
And CUI BONO from stirring shit up?
"If they can't agree on the simple things, how will they run a government together?" asked Jessica Kola, a health worker in the western city of Kisumu."
Yeah, those Africans can't get along about anything, the savages!
Just to remind you where Bush's priorities lie, readers:
"The Back Story Of Bush's Visit To Tanzania"
"Enter stage left, the leaking news that Bush has made secret agreements with Kikwete to build a huge American military base just north of Dar.
Ahh, it all makes sense now. $700 million 'to fight AIDS and malaria' ... and build a new strategic US military base. Why hasn't that part made the news?"
"War wears out Air Force equipment""Air Force officials are warning that unless their budget is increased dramatically, and soon, the military's high-flying branch won't dominate the skies as it has for decades.
I'm really tired of shelling out for WAR and ONLY WAR!!!
NO MORE WAR!!!!
After more than six years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Air Force's aging jet fighters, bombers, cargo aircraft and gunships are at the breaking point, they say, and expensive, ultramodern replacements are needed fast....
An extra $20 billion each year over the next five beginning with an Air Force budget of about $137 billion in 2009 instead of the $117 billion proposed by the Bush administration would solve that problem, according to Selva and other senior Air Force officers....
Sigh! How's that bowl of shit taste, 'murka?
Too bad Bush WRECKED OUR MILITARY over some SHIT LIES!!!!
"The Air Force is going to be confronting a major procurement crisis because it can't buy all the things that it absolutely needs," said Dov Zakheim, a former Pentagon comptroller. "It's going to force us to rethink, yet again, what is the strategy we want? What can we give up?"
Where did all those TRILLIONS GO, Dov?
"Dov Zakheim — Pentagon comptroller when trillion dollars reported missing on 9-10-01; “dual citizen” of US and Israel; Zionist; Shul Rabbi; former CFR member; former CEO of fly-by-remote manufacturer; reputed 9-11 mastermind"
.... Current F-15s and F-16s are on average more than 20 years old and have reached a point where spending more money on extensive repairs is a poor investment."
Sounds to me like the damn wars are a bad idea!
What good are these planes anyway if they aren't going to be there WHEN WE NEED THEM?
