[NYTr] Bush: The "Good Samaritan" ?

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Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN) - Oct 2, 2007
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Bush: The Good Samaritan?

By Nestor Nuñez
AIN Special Service

"When innocent people are trapped in a life of murder and fear, the 
Declaration is not being upheld. When millions of children starve to 
death or perish from a mosquito bite, we're not doing our duty in the 
world. When whole societies are cut off from the prosperity of the 
global economy, we're all worse off."

Whose words?  Some progressive leader?

No.  The author, or better, the mediocre reader of this and other 
passages was none other than George Walker Bush, President of the 
United States, at the podium of the UN General Assembly on September 
25th.

His rhetoric was like a parrot. The one responsible for the so-called 
anti-terrorist Crusade wanted to appear, at the microphone, as being 
concerned about the human tragedies and the violations of international 
law. Curious, because precisely at the same time the US press was 
publishing how the former Spanish President, Jose Maria Aznar, and W. 
Bush himself jointly prepared, together with Anthony Blair, their pack 
of lies in order to attack Iraq. Even more so, because US bombs and 
bullets have killed one million civilians in Iraq and because inside 
his own territory, hours before appearing at the UN, the "humanitarian" 
leader refused to support legislation that would have offered medical 
services to 6 million low-income children in the country.

Which is super-curious, because among other barbarities, the US has 
never complied with its own [pledge to devote] 0.7 percent of its annual
GDP to help underdeveloped nations. Why? Because Washington
insists on the role of the great creditor for a good part of the
nations of the South, whose foreign debt exceeds one billion dollars.
They have only been paid out with onerous interest and unjust
surcharges. Why? Because Washington sabotages any attempt to achieve a
just international market where third world exports could achieve
adequate prices. But there is a lot to talk about Bush even being at
the UN, because his very presence at the world body has been an
absolute lesson in infamy.  

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