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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (400700)4/29/2003 9:06:12 PM
From: Neeka  Read Replies (2) of 769667
 
I want my government to be lean and mean at this point. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that when one terrorist organization or another gets hold of a dirty bomb or otherwise they will attempt to destroy my people and my country. It is of paramount importance that we spend as much as we need to........as efficiently as possible......to protect Americans.

This question you asked earlier made me think of a few question I'd like you to answer.

1. How much money does the US and Americans.....including private donations.....spend every year on International charity?

2. Would you please provide a link that corroborates your claims that the US has blocked a plan to send U.N. peacekeepers to the Ivory Coast?

With the left it is proven over and over again that whatever this administration does, it won't be the right thing.

M



If the US went into
What about one of the other points?
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First, why is our compassion so selective? In 2001 the World Health Organization � the same organization we now count on to protect us from SARS � called for a program to fight infectious diseases in poor countries, arguing that it would save the lives of millions of people every year. The U.S. share of the expenses would have been about $10 billion per year � a small fraction of what we will spend on war and occupation. Yet the Bush administration contemptuously dismissed the proposal.

Or consider one of America's first major postwar acts of diplomacy: blocking a plan to send U.N. peacekeepers to Ivory Coast (a former French colony) to enforce a truce in a vicious civil war. The U.S. complains that it will cost too much. And that must be true � we wouldn't let innocent people die just to spite the French, would we?

So it seems that our deep concern for the Iraqi people doesn't extend to suffering people elsewhere. I guess it's just a matter of emphasis. A cynic might point out, however, that saving lives peacefully doesn't offer any occasion to stage a victory parade.

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