Poor 'are paying for war on terror' - Democratic Underground

ze_dscherman

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Mon May-10-04 06:03 PM
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Poor 'are paying for war on terror'

Some of the world's poorest people are paying for the "war on terror" as governments cut aid budgets or switch their priorities to address security issues, a leading charity said today.

The Christian Aid report, entitled The Politics of Poverty, said that aid was being politicised as it had been during the cold war. It accused the US of leading the trend.

"We seem to be drifting back to the darkest days of the cold war, to a time when aid was just as liable to prop up dictators and their regimes as it was to build hospitals or drill wells," the report said.

Much more interesting background: http://society.guardian.co.uk/aid/story/0,14178,1213525,00.html

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Just Me

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Mon May-10-04 06:05 PM
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1. And the rich are making a killing, so to speak. n/t

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Desertrose

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Mon May-10-04 07:28 PM
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2. DUH!

I'm sorry but duh...this is not news to many ...
*sigh* ...ain't it always the way.......?

Peace
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Judi Lynn

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Mon May-10-04 08:42 PM
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3. I have a feeling a lot of us suspected this was going on

but this is the first place where I've seen it addressed. Really very sad things have gotten this sleazy. I don't think a Democratic President (who would have been ELECTED, unlike the wreck in the White House) would have screwed things up no matter WHAT the hell had happened to "set things in motion."

We've got murderous idiots running things, and they couldn't care less about the law, or matters of conscience.

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