Bob Geldof praises Bush re African food, but criticizes Clinton and EU

[december]

*Originally posted by sailor *
december you keep missing it. No one so blind as the one who does not want to see. Bob Geldof said on the whole the USA does more damage than good with its trade policies You are so sectarian.

True, but these are not Bush’s trade rules. The same rules existed under the Clinton Administration AFAIK.

But your insistence that the USA only does good and the rest only do bad is just childish and stupid and very tiring.

I didn’t mean to imply that the US only does good or that the rest only do bad.

[SentientMeat]

I suspect old Bob is playing a very canny game of shaming the EU into yet higher donations.

One could argue that it was the US dumping its heavily subsudused surplus grain into East Africa which decimated the grain price and helped cause the famine in the first place.

[SentientMeat]

Subsudused???

Subsidised

[elfje]

*Originally posted by jjimm *
**It should be pointed out that Geldof was also vocally in support of the Iraq campaign (as I recall - BBC radio, so no cite).

I wil also add my praise to the Bush administration for its proposed HIV/AIDS program for Africa. My view has nothing to do with Geldof’s views, mind you, other than we both agree that a multibillion dollar aid package for the poorest people in the world is an excellent thing.

I also think the EU could do a lot more in terms of overseas aid. I hope they respond to Bush’s challenge. **

I agree with the whole AIDS program, but I don’t like the fact so much that so many strangs are attached to it.

**quote:
There are also concerns that the programme has been left slightly hamstrung by a concession made by President Bush to lobbyists.

This stipulates that a third of the money designated to prevention work must be spent promoting sexual abstinence prior to marriage as a method of protection.

This approach is seen by public health experts as less effective than promoting the use of condoms and other safe sex practices. end quote**

from here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2943572.stm

i mean, a third of the money designed to prevention must be used to advocate abstinence ?
They might aswell throw that money away.

[elfje]

strings instead of strangs

:rolleyes:

[Milum]

Summary of direct personal derogatory remarks at this juncture…

salior

***december you keep missing it. No one so blind as the one who does not want to see.

***You are so sectarian.

*** But your insistence that the USA only does good and the rest only do bad is just childish and stupid and very tiring.

***december, I know you like to bash the EU and you ignore anything good the EU might do but…

***Of course, december only cites the parts he likes.

Fear Itself

*** Is that the way it works in your world, december?

• Comment : So far not bad for a largely december bashing group.* ___

[The_Calculus_of_Logic]

He said Europe had given 41% of all donations, compared to 46% from the United States and 4% from Japan.

Although the EU has been slower, whats the problem? 41% vs. 46%? The EU has a GDP roughly the same of the US, about $10 trillion. Why not come down on Japan with its $5 trillion GDP and 4% donation or China with its $6 trillion GDP and 0% donation?

[Milum]

Have you lost your mind Logic, do you realise that you are only quoting a limped-wristed rock star and the BBC? Bless you my child, your enthusiam of entertainment has gone to your head.