There is some people who love the U.S.A. and even Bush!

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by LordShiva
HappyBush

Fixed

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Aeson
I am sorry, but that GWB face on the ladies' tops has just ruined my day.

I have nothing against girls with Bush.

[Arrian]

Originally posted by CrONoS


So americans, how does it feel to be loved?

Depends on who is doin' the loving

-Arrian

[chequita guevara]

Hot Tanzanian women

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Hot Tanzanian women without clothes on

fixed

[Ben Kenobi]

America
Bush
Kosovo
Tanzania
Bono

[Theben]

Originally posted by DaShi
Bush only fought Malaria because he thought it was a country in Africa.

[Elok]

Hey, Bono sang the Iraq war theme song. Y'know, the one that goes "but I stiiiiiiiilll haven't foooouund what I'm looking for...?"

[Winston]

There is some people who love the U.S.A. and even Bush!

Indeed.

[LordShiva]

Happy Putin

[Aeson]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph


I have nothing against girls with Bush.

... on their chest?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Elok
Hey, Bono sang the Iraq war theme song. Y'know, the one that goes "but I stiiiiiiiilll haven't foooouund what I'm looking for...?"

[Arrian]

Nice, Elok.

-Arrian

[CrONoS]

Doing good, quietly

Feb 14th 2008 | WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist print edition
George Bush has a better record in Africa than many people realise


AMERICA'S president has his critics south of the Sahara. Zapiro, a leading South African cartoonist, has depicted George Bush responding to bird flu by bombing Turkey and the Canary Isles, and has shown doctors finding his brain during a colonoscopy. But as Mr Bush embarks on a five-country tour of Africa this week, he can point to more successes than critics give him credit for.

Mr Bush and his wife will visit Benin, Ghana, Liberia, Rwanda and Tanzania. None of these countries has been much in the world news of late, a sure sign that all are quietly doing better. Benin, Ghana and Tanzania seem stable and are democratic. Liberia is at peace. Rwanda's government is autocratic but a lot better than the genocidal regime that preceded it, and has made progress in fighting AIDS.

Mr Bush is justly chided for backing anti-AIDS programmes that advocate only sexual abstinence, an approach that seldom works. What his critics forget is that this is only a small part of a huge effort to curb the epidemic. The American government is probably the world's largest supplier of condoms to Africa. By the end of its first five-year phase, in September, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, better known as PEPFAR, will have spent $18.8 billion, mainly in Africa. Mr Bush has asked Congress for another hefty $30 billion over the next five years to tackle AIDS in poor countries. At least 1m Africans get life-preserving antiretroviral drugs largely thanks to Uncle Sam.

America helps Africa in other ways, too. It supplies millions with anti-malarial bednets or drugs. It has written off a lot of debt and pushed for open trade. And Mr Bush takes an original approach to aid. His Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) gives poor countries money if they can come up with a good plan for what to do with it. This allows aid recipients to set their own priorities. Other donors usually insist that their largesse be spent on health or education. Fair enough, but America allows them to tackle less fashionable ills such as bad roads and sanitation, and to do so in a way that fosters initiative rather than dependency. The MCC has been slow to disburse cash, partly because of bureaucratic foul-ups in Washington but mostly because its remit is so ambitious and some African countries have struggled to draw up plausible plans for how to spend the money.

Mr Bush also wants to highlight African successes. Before the cold war ended, only three small African countries were proper democracies: Botswana, Mauritius and Senegal. Now a good score of them probably qualify. In the 1980s, most African countries had bad economic policies. Now inflation is low nearly everywhere bar Zimbabwe (where it is 150,000%) and nearly every African country not at war is growing quite fast. Over the past four years, sub-Saharan Africa's growth rate has been around 6% a year.

It is violence, of course, that captures headlines, and Mr Bush is finding it hard to help calm Africa's troublespots. His administration sent muddled signals at the start of Kenya's current crisis but is now working hard to talk Kenya's politicians back from the precipice. America played a big role in ending the war between north and south Sudan, but its efforts to douse the flames in Darfur have yet to succeed. America's reputation in sub-Saharan Africa has held up much better than elsewhere in the world. According to a Pew Global Attitudes survey last year, a big majority of people in nine out of ten African countries polled still like America.

Moreover, savvy Africans know that any American president is a useful ally. Liberia's president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, is lobbying hard for the Pentagon to put the headquarters of its Africa Command (AFRICOM) in her country, not least because it would make it much harder for ragtag rebels to mount another coup. But several other African countries are keen to bid for it too.

[Riesstiu IV]

Awesome! Because I could never live in an America that didn't have the approval of Kosovars, Tanzanians, and Bono.