"Bush to Push U.S. Compassion in Guatemala"

[GreenPartyVoter]

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AP) - Frame-by-frame, the images of President Bush in Guatemala on Monday will depict sharp contrasts.

The leader of the richest nation reaching out to the impoverished. A smiling vegetable farmer benefiting from a free trade deal that Bush had trouble selling to Congress. Bush touring Mayan ruins and speaking out against social injustice suffered by Guatemala's indigenous citizens of Mayan ancestry, who have protested his visit.

Undeterred by protests that have dogged Bush at every stop on his five-nation Latin American trip, Bush, who arrived here Sunday night, will work to convince Guatemalans that the United States is a compassionate nation. It's the same message he delivered earlier at stops in Brazil, Uruguay and Colombia.

"It's very important for the people of South America and Central America to know that the United States cares deeply about the human condition, and that much of our aid is aimed at helping people realize their God-given potential," Bush said Sunday in Bogota, Colombia.

http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20070312/D8NQITLG0.html

[bdamomma]

1. what a liar!!

he makes me :puke:

[koopie57]

2. Poor Guantemala n/t

[WinkyDink]

3. Like Cheney, like Condi, Bush thinks that because he SAYS something, that something must be

the reality for the rest of us.

How many times has he said how others "got ta unnerstand"? Too bad he slipped up once and revealed that he's merely "catapulting the propaganda".

[Vidar]

4. Compassion by death squad. What a country!

[Sonicmedusa]

6. I saw this headline on Yahoo and thought

Oh great! Now we're gonna bomb Guatemala.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Yep. I thought the same. Was trying to figure out what we were punishing them for.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

5. More compassionate conservativism- No Thanks

He tried that on us, remember

[EFerrari]

7. What an idiot. Chavez's speeches have been brilliant

this week and Bush has put himself in the position of a losing comparison.

[kenny blankenship]

8. I don't know whether Guatemala can survive much more U.S. compassion

Most of the United States' care and aid has been aimed at helping Guatemalans realize their potential as landless slaves on coffee plantations--and if they don't like ideas like that, it has been aimed at their heads.

[rodeodance]

13. 'His goodwill tour .....'

His goodwill tour also serves as a counterweight to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, who has been doing his own tour of Latin America. On Sunday in Bolivia, Chavez called for a socialist counterattack against the American "empire." Chavez has been pumping his nation's oil profits into social programs across the region to further the leftward political shift he's leading in the United States' backyard.

Using his own Marine One helicopter, Bush will fly around this mountainous country, about the size of Tennessee, for a series of events meant to show that strong democratic reforms can improve the lives of Guatemalans.

He will visit with U.S. military medical team that offers basic health care - everything from giving vaccinations to helping build new health centers.

He'll tour Labradores Mayas, a thriving vegetable packing station in Chirijuyu that has received $350,000 in U.S. assistance since 2003 and is taking advantage of eased trade restrictions under the U.S.-Central America Free Trade Agreement.

[jimshoes]

10. Bad luck Guatemala

My condolences.

[rodeodance]

11. Karen Hughes is somewhere is the background!--"Frame-by-frame,"

[rodeodance]

12. shamefule that he goes abroud to WORK to convince them that the US is

compassionate.

[opihimoimoi]

14. There he goes again, trying to sell BS CRAP...the photo op prez

scamming peeps with empty talk.