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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-12-09 05:00 PM
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What exactly did Dumbya do for Africa?
I know the GOP-controlled media is pushing this idea that dumbass spent more money than any other American president ever has in Africa to 'fight" AIDS, but I haven't seen any details.

All I remember is that dumbass required abstinence-only be a part of any country wanting aid from the U.S..

Other than tempt sick and dying people with money but demanding they follow a failed ideology before they get any of it, what exactly has dumbass done for the people of Africa?

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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-12-09 05:01 PM
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1. He gave his buddies a bunch of money to go there and advocate against condoms.
What has our torture president ever done for anybody? :shrug:
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-12-09 05:01 PM
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2. He referred to it as a "country".
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Zywiec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-12-09 05:04 PM
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3. UNITED STATES AFRICA COMMAND
Does this count?

http://www.africom.mil/
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-12-09 05:08 PM
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4. Does that benefit the people of Africa, or Blackwater? n/t
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polly7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-12-09 05:34 PM
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5. Well there's this:
Africom: Terrorism? Or Oil?

In mid-February, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced plans to establish the Africa Command, a new regional area of responsibility, to combat terrorism on the continent. But many Africans are questioning that rationale and believe that instead, Africom’s main purpose will be to protect America’s oil interests. Then again, many of the oil-producing countries in Africa are predominantly Muslim. Thus, oil interests and religious influences are once again overlapping.
Dr. Gilbert Ngwa, an African economic history lecturer at the University of Buea in Cameroon, told ET that the U.S. is creating Africom primarily to assure the continuing flow of oil from the Gulf of Guinea. Terrorism, he believes, is a secondary concern.

http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=435

http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/3-africom-us-military-control-of-africas-resources/

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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-12-09 05:36 PM
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6. I don't know, but it does explain why they could ignore Darfur. n/t
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Igel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-12-09 06:47 PM
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7. Two things, really.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/30/AR2006123000941.html

1. A ton of money for humanitarian aid--note that the article's from 2006.

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=how_bushs_aids_program_is_failing_africans argues that the aid didn't really help. I think the argument's leaky, but that would take a bit to explain.

2. His admin helped work out a peace deal in the Sudan. Not Darfur, but in the south, the fighting there that had gone on for a decade with, well, little notice. Even Powers, who was up in arms about Rwanda and Darfur, had little to say about the south of Sudan. One could say that was a two-edged sword, however, since as things wound down in the south they heated up in the west/north-west.
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