UPDATE -- HE GETS EVEN MORE IGNORANT: "He took the time to scold the Bush administration for its lack of effort on AIDS and other diseases in Africa. However, Bush has already spent more on these issues than the last Democratic administration did in eight years. Humanitarian aid to Africa comprised $1.4 billion a year at the end of the Clinton administration, but Bush has tripled that to $4 billion per year -- and wants to more than double it over the next two years:
President Bush's legacy is sure to be defined by his wielding of U.S.
military power in Afghanistan and Iraq, but there is another, much softer and
less-noticed effort by his administration in foreign affairs: a dramatic
increase in U.S. aid to Africa.
The president has tripled direct
humanitarian and development aid to the world's most impoverished continent
since taking office and recently vowed to double that increased amount by 2010
-- to nearly $9 billion. ...
Bush has increased direct development and humanitarian aid to Africa to more than $4 billion a year from $1.4 billion in 2001, according to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. And four African nations -- Sudan, Ethiopia, Egypt and Uganda -- rank among the world's top 10 recipients in aid from the United States.
So not only is John Kerry a hypocrite, he's also an ignoramus. However, we have noticed that the Davos forum has become, over the years, a convention of sorts for both. Kerry should feel right at home." [ There were few Democrats available who were capable of losing badly to George Bush in 2004. Obviously, Kerry was one of them. It tells one a lot about the sad state of intellect and lack of accountability in our two major political parties that this was the choice we were given.
UPDATE: Oh, and we're an "international pariah" too. The MSM is now madly working to send it down the memory hole lest the rubes get riled up. Too late. -ed. ]
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