[F16Fighter]

"I still maintain that the AIDS money for Africa was Bush's deal with Colin Powell to keep him on staff through the next election...Bush should have gone to Africa to propagandize for Capitalism, not for redistribution of our wealth, i.e. more socialism."

It may have very well been Powell's baby, but this kind of political pandering coincidently happens to appease those who claim a lack of traditionally "compassion" by the GOP.

Did the Adminstration hope for some voting "trianglation" movement from the respective Gay, Black, and socialist voting blocs by using the $15b as a "calling-card" gesture?

[backhoe]

AfricaWatch:

-South Africa - The sellout of a nation-- -Cry, the Beloved Country-- -Robert Mugabe and the Struggle for Power-- -A Capsule History of Southern Africa-- -Rhetoric of blame is now a white lie-- -First it was Rhodesia then SA now America paying the price of silence-- -Pity About Africa...-- -Parallels between Apartheid SA and USA-- -Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight--

-South Africa - The sellout of a nation-- -Cry, the Beloved Country-- -Robert Mugabe and the Struggle for Power-- -A Capsule History of Southern Africa-- -Rhetoric of blame is now a white lie-- -First it was Rhodesia then SA now America paying the price of silence-- -Pity About Africa...-- -Parallels between Apartheid SA and USA-- -Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight--