Condi Coddles Brutal Dictator from Oil Producing County

Where are Aceshigh7 and the rest of the "defenders of freedom" in this thread?

They seemed plenty willing to jump on the hate wagon before.

 

i've decided that i'm the decider and that condi should coddle my dictator.

 

No really?!?!

We would actually do something like this?!?!

Wow!

 

Would. NOT. Hit. That.

 

Are you saying I never respond in a spirit of friendship and goodwill? That hurts, Deckard.

I don't know to much about Equatorial Guinea, but it appears the meeting was to announce a new development program for the poor of EG:

USAID AGREEMENT WILL AID SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

USAID April 11 entered into a unique memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Equatorial Guinea to establish a social development fund in the country, implementing projects in the areas of health, education, women's affairs and the environment.

Using only its own government revenues, Equatorial Guinea is contributing $15 million to USAID to provide technical assistance to support implementation of the fund, according to a USAID press release.

Those funds, according to USAID, "will be instrumental in fostering transparency and accountability in the design, implementation and evaluation of social needs projects."

USAID Administrator Randall Tobias, who spoke at the signing ceremony, called the MOU a "landmark agreement."

"Equatorial Guinea's decision to use government revenues for social development needs," he said, "demonstrates visionary leadership and the potential of true transformation. This kind of agreement," he told his audience, "can serve as a model for future partnerships around the world, and USAID graciously accepts these resources."

USAID's technical support of the fund will be managed through USAID's West Africa Regional Program in Accra, Ghana.

Cindy Courville, special assistant to the president and senior director for African affairs at the National Security Council, reminded everyone at the ceremony that "the focus of this dialogue is transformation. The rewards for future generations will be great."

Lloyd Pierson, USAID assistant administrator for the Bureau for Africa, acted as master of ceremonies for the event.

http://usunrome.usmission.gov/UNIssues/sustdev/docs/a6041301.htm

 

America should not be in bed with this (or any) dictator. We should turn Equatorial Guinea into a democracy.

 

I say we convert them and only them- Halliburton

 

I agree with everyone else, WNES constant american bashing is getting on my nerve. liberal or conservative, enough is enough... if you hate this great land so much, i suggest you packup you're bags and headback to china.

 

Where did I say that, silly? I was referring to you're style of posting, which wnes can imitate to a fair degree, at times.

Why, we hardly disagree about anything!!



Keep D&D Civil.

 

That has to be the most stupid thing ever. If I rooted for China at the expense of America, why should I be vehemently opposed to the Iraq War, and potentially a US military conflict with Iran? Wouldn't I wish US and the Muslim countries fight each other to the utter destruction, and watch gleefully their mutual hatred accentuate?

 

OK, glynch is too much of a gentleman to blast me from derailing his thread. So let's get back to the topic, shall we.

Just found this on CIA World Factbook (link). Equatorial Guinea's GDP per capita is 3rd in the world at $ 50,200. That's two places higher than USA.

In light of this fact, it's mind-boggling nearly 3 quarters of the population would suffer from malnutrition.

Hayes you know, if USA were to install "democracy" in EG through "intervention", I think I would be for it. There is no question neocon's agenda is fully exposed for its hypocrisy in this case.

 

Equatorial Guinea is certainly not the only horrific African

strong-man dictatorship in existence. The number of

dictators in Africa makes the so-called African Union a

complete joke of an organization, considering it's pretty

much a cartel of warlords. There are plenty of cases in Africa

where the dictators are one of the main reasons for poverty

in the nation as they embezzle all the cash that is donated

to the people. Here's an example of a democratic nation

that we've chosen to shun: Somaliland

It's still not recognized by any nation. The African Union has

refused to accept it, because they do not want to be seen as

a supporting a "break-away" nation because it would affect

their own captive constituancies. The U.S. and Britain have

not recognized the nation because they see no benefit in

meddling with African affairs. It would likely sour relations

with the warlords in southern Somalia, who are

helping

to control fundamental sentiment, though by very violent

means.

Moral of the story is that, we, and most of the world, will

only support democracy and stop dictatorship when they

exists some tangible benefit to do so. I mean, it's human

nature.

 

As I mentioned earlier in the thread, the only thing that seems to have happened lately is the US implementing an aid program to help the poor in EG. Damn, isn't that terrible? And its a silly argument to say we need to intervene everywhere there is a dictator or we're hypocrites. You can achieve your goals with different means in different countries. With some you pursue contructive engagement, with some you pursue punative measures.

 

You cannot possibly be that naive?

60 minutes did a peice on this in 2004.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/14/60minutes/main583700.shtml