Bush refuses to give way on Blair's plan for aid

[Bouncy Ball]

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/development/story/0,15709,1498357,00.html

George Bush has dug in his heels ahead of Tony Blair's visit to Washington on Monday, when the prime minister will attempt to convince the US to accept a new action plan on Africa that would require a doubling of American aid.

Speaking to reporters at a meeting with the South African president, Thabo Mbeki, Mr Bush made it clear he would not drop his opposition to a British plan to create an International Financing Facility (IFF) for Africa to mobilise more foreign aid.

"We have made our position pretty clear on that, that it doesn't fit our budgetary process," Mr Bush said, referring to limitations on Congress entering into long-term financial commitments. US officials have rejected British attempts to convince them to make an exception for African aid.

The president also signalled on Wednesday that he believed the leadership of the G8 group of industrialised countries was already moving in the right direction on African aid, and the policy did not need overhauling at July's Gleneagles summit.

[babylonsister]

1. So this will just reinforce world opinion of what a

lowlife he really is. Money can be spent to destroy land and people, but not to help. Gawd, I detest him!

[Cha]

3. Wonder what Bono

thinks of his boy NOW?

[Cha]

2. Isn't that a big word for

bush?.."budgetary" process?

[Bouncy Ball]

4. Shhhh! They tutored him on how to say it for three hours beforehand!

[ninkasi]

5. With Bush...

friendship is a one way street. Blair must feel humiliated, having stood against British opposition to the Iraq quagmire all at the Chimp's urging. What a way to treat one's closest ally. It only proves what we all know...the BFEE will stab anyone in the back when it suits them.

[Seabiscuit]

6. Translation: "I've already bankrupted our government. No bank will lend

us any more money."

[ima_sinnic]

7. you greedy, selfish disgusting piece of subhuman excreta

with your bloodstained claws squeezing the profits of your mass murder, rape, plunder, and torture all won on the broken backs of children fighting in your wars based on lies. I spit on you and your whole pathetic tribe of miscreant thugs and war profiteers and curse you and yours to the seventeenth generation to eternal damnation in vats of boiling oil with fire ants eating out your eyes. Take your war profits and shove them up your ass, you are the antichrist descended from the bowels of hell.

(phew, I feel better now)

[confuddled]

8. I feel better too. Thanks !

[CountAllVotes]

10. well you've summed it up nicely!

Thank you ... saved me a lot of energy! :toast: :toast: :toast: :D

:dem:

:kick:

[NYC Liberal]

9. Since WHEN DOES HE CARE ABOUT THE COSTS OF SOMETHING?

So far the occupation of Iraq has costed:

$174,199,057,446

How does THAT fit our "budgetary process" HUH?

[intheozone]

13. No shit, what the fuck is Iraq if not a long-term

financial commitment????? Or should we just forget about that for now. He is such a fucking embarrassment!!!

[punpirate]

11. Anyone wanting to know the real reasons why...

... Bush won't give in to debt forgiveness and aid restructuring needs to do two things. Look for and read Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, and two, do a few searches for proposed U.S. military bases on the African continent--particularly on the west coast of Africa, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.

[proud patriot]

12. Bullshit ; bush is a wimp

:hi:He'll cave to the dismay of the freeptards

[flaminbats]

14. "doesn't fit our budgetary process..."

but giving away our huge budget surplus to corporations and millionaires does? :puke: