Another Promise Broken - 15 Billion for Aids? WHEN??

[kittykitty]

THEN----
Combating the International HIV/AIDS Pandemic
President Bush announced the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a five-year, $15 billion initiative to turn the tide in the global effort to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The HIV/AIDS pandemic has killed at least 20 million of the more than 60 million people it has infected thus far, leaving 14 million orphans worldwide.
Today, on the continent of Africa, nearly 30 million people have the AIDS virus – including three million children under the age of 15. There are whole countries in Africa where more than one-third of the adult population carries the infection. More than four million require immediate drug treatment. Yet across that continent, only 50,000 AIDS victims are receiving the medicine they need.
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The $15 billion virtually triples the current U.S. commitment to fighting AIDS internationally. It includes $10 billion in new funds, of which $1 billion is for the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. Funding will begin with $2 billion in FY 04 and ramp up thereafter.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-14.html

AND NOW!----

New Hampshire
Bush AIDS plan after 1 year = 3 million AIDS deaths and zero results...
One year has passed since President Bush pledged $15 billion over five years to fight global AIDS. So far, no funds have been disbursed to the new bilateral program, and most of the details about program implementation remain to be worked out -- except that most of the funds are to be backloaded far into the future. However, the already- operating multilateral Global AIDS Fund faces massive funding shortfalls and pressure from the Bush Administration to reduce the number of grants in the coming year.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200401201167.html

Lies and more lies. . . . .

[arcane1]

1. but, I saw a Happy Black Man(tm) at last year's SOTU, CLAPPING!!!

that means something, right?

/sarcasm

[0007]

4. Funny you said that! A Republican was telling me today that the civil war

wasn't about slavery.

[arcane1]

5. oh yeah, you really wanna piss off a confederate..

tell them about slavery. They go ballistic!

the truth hurts...

even better, tell them that the confederates were TRAITORS TO THEIR COUNTRY, for taking up arms against AMERICA, KILLING AMERICANS to SECEDE from the UNION!!!

Confederates HATE AMERICA, I don't know how they can see it any other way, but they do. In my birth-town of Richmond, VA, you will often see people with flagpoles in thier yard, with the US flag AND the rebel flag, on the SAME POLE!!!

:eyes:

[Cocoa]

2. I'm also waiting for Bush to start fighting sex slavery

and I'm worried he's losing interest in Mars. Who proposes a ten-year space program and then drops it after two weeks of bad polls?

[atreides1]

3. He Had No Intention of Keeping This Promise

Bush had no intention of keeping his word, he only did it so that his
puppet Powell would go along with the lies.

Bush knew he could depend on the Republican controlled Congress to not
provide any of the money for AIDS, and they came through for him.

This way he could always point the finger at them and said that it was the Congress that refused to provide the funding, and that he tried to convince them that it was the right thing to do.

By the time this went before Congress, Powell had already sold his soul and gave his report of lies to the UN.

The results, no money for AIDS, almost $200 Billion dollars for a war
we did not need. The costs 3 million dead from AIDS, at least 30,000
dead Iraqis, and 500+ dead US military personnel.

Ain't life f***ing grand!!!!!