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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (434015)	7/26/2003 3:30:54 PM
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Sharpton Rips Bush on Liberia Policy By SAMUEL MAULL ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Al Sharpton said Friday that President Bush's plan to send U.S. troops off the coast of wartorn Liberia is insufficient and seems to reflect a foreign policy that is different for "people of color." Sharpton, who returned Thursday from talks in Liberia aimed at restoring order, argued that Bush should send peacekeeping forces into the West African nation. Bush on Friday ordered an unspecified number of U.S. troops to be positioned off the coast to assist West African peacekeeping forces, with a limited role and mission for the Americans. "It seems this administration's foreign policy is different, absolutely different, when it comes to people of color," Sharpton said in front of the Liberian U.N. mission. "I can't imagine that there wouldn't be intervention in Europe if thousands were dying in war." Sharpton argued that the mere presence of American troops as peacekeepers would stop the killings on the streets of Monrovia, Liberia's refugee-choked capital city of 1 million. "Why are we dragging our feet?" Sharpton asked. "What was the meaning of Bush's trip (to Africa)?" Sharpton said he spoke to Secretary of State Colin Powell just before he left and would report to him later Friday on his meetings with African leaders. Last Friday, Sharpton said he met with all sides during a peace meeting in Accra, Ghana. "I do not believe in military invasion but I do believe in humanitarian outreach, especially when all factions are asking America to come in," Sharpton said. Monrovia's residents have pressed for a U.S. deployment to the American-founded nation as rebels continued their three-year war to drive out Liberia's president, Charles Taylor. -- lasvegassun.com