Spin vs. Reality:
Re: I agree with him pushing through the $ 15 billion
for AIDS. Good for him.
This is much over-hyped in the media. First, $5 Billion was stolen from other research efforts on malaria, bilharzia and other tropical diseases and redirected to AIDS. Second, this is either a five year or a ten year budget figure, depending on which source you rely on. So, in actuality, GWB is robbing existing programs for the sake of a sound bite. Keep your eye on the shells in this game. The funding is back-ended in this budgetary fantasy. All the better to delete the funding (as Bush tried to do this year with Afghanistan) once the public's attention is distracted by the next shell game.
Re: I agree with him pushing all sides - Israel and the
Palestinians, to make peace.
Bush isn't pushing Sharon. He's caving in. Here's a couple of maps to prove that the occupation and extirpation of Palestine is a vision shared by Bush and Sharon:
Proposed Camp David Agreement:
passia.org
Proposed Taba (Jan, 2001) Agreement:
passia.org
I would love to see an honest map of what is being proposed today. We will find that Sharon is slicing the Palestinian lands into unfeasible, uneconomic island ghettoes surrounded by Israeli settlements, highways and walls. Yes, it is ironic that Sharon is imposing the same ghetto existence on Palestinians that Hitler imposed on European Jewry seven decades ago. |
