Bush Statement to UN General Assembly 'Misleading,' Says Global AIDS Allia

[True_Blue]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the Global AIDS Alliance
accused President Bush of misleading Americans and the world by falsely claiming an emergency response to AIDS was underway.

The President stated, "The U.S. has begun to carry out the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief." In fact, not one dime has been spent to implement the Emergency Plan announced eight months ago, even though the epidemic is spreading exponentially to areas critical to U.S. national security.

"The President is obviously getting bad advice about how to tackle a real health emergency like AIDS," noted Dr. Paul Zeitz, Executive Director of the Global AIDS Alliance. "Most experts would advise against postponing the bulk of the spending to the later years of the program."

The President has also made false claims about the readiness of countries to utilize the additional funding. The Bush position amounts to saying, absurdly, "Sorry we cannot give you the funding you can use to improve healthcare infrastructure because you lack the health care infrastructure."

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[caledesi]

1. Another lie. Add this to the 500 lies list.

[Parche]

2. lies

Nothing this misadministration says anymore is the truth,
or doing what they say

[Cloud]

3. We should be used to this by now

Another joke. We can't spend money on AIDs because we are too busy cutting social programs so we have more money to spend on Iraq.

I miss Big Dog.

I was reading somewhere that Dubya cut the AIDs funding to African countries because they don't preach abstinance and advocate condom use instead. Is that true?

[Cappurr]

4. Bush Lied????

:wow:

[Myra]

5. It must be hard for a diplomat to find the right words

Every time Bush lies.

Like trying to describe the stench from
a huge steaming pile, over and over.