War loser president George W. Bush made a desperate visit to Africa recently paving his way with gold through five safe countries.
With the unmitigated gall of a pathological liar he said in Tanzania, “To put it bluntly — America doesn’t want to spend money on people who steal money from the people.
“We like dealing with honest people and compassionate people. We want our money to go to help the human condition and to live human lives.”
This nonsense from a man who invaded a country under false pretences. Who started a war to satisfy his weak ego and greed. A war that has killed tens of thousands and crippled uncounted tens of thousands more. This from a man in whose own country, the residents of New Orleans still struggle in third-world conditions trying to recover from Hurricane Katrina. This from a man who has brought the U.S. economy to the brink of ruin, and mortgaged it to Communist China.
Those he visited on his African anxious afterthought graciously accepted the largesse of the toadying bungler but had no illusions about the disreputable man with whom they were dealing. They didn’t have to take much trouble to hide their scorn. The man is blinded by his own vanity.
George W. Bush has no shame.
He is a proven coward, bully, and liar. The real reason he made that trip to Africa is because he and his fellow thugs in power are terrified of the inroads their Chinese benefactor have made on the “Lost Continent” while he’s stuck in Iraq playing war games with real people, real weapons, and with terribly tragic results.
Here following is what China has invested in Africa while Bush was failing in his invasion of Iraq. All figures in U.S. dollars.
Number of combined African companies and Chinese enterprises developed in Africa: 800.
Number of African countries partnering with China: 48
Volume of commercial exchanges (2006) $55.5 billion, 40%more than 2005.
Anticipated volume 2010: $100 billion.
Countries’ principal products: petrol, uranium, diamonds, iron, manganese.
LIBERIA: Between now and 2009, China will spend $25 million to reconstruct this country ravaged by the civil war of 1989 to 2003. They have also erased a $50 million debt.
NIGER: Some Chinese companies as well as Canadian, American, and French, are in the running to exploit the uranium mines that are fourth largest producers of uranium in the world.
NIGERIA: China Southern Airlines, largest airline in China, inaugurated in 2007, Beijing-Lagos. the first such airline in Africa. The Chinese population of Nigeria is more than 50,000.
CAMEROUN: China plans to build a soccer stadium of more than 60,000 seats in Yaounde, the capital.
ZIMBABWE: Biggest investor in Zimbabwe, China provides artillery, aircraft, in exchange for tobacco.
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: In 2007, China lent $5 billion for the construction of railroads, mining infrastructure, 31 hospitals and 2 universities. Paid in part by the commercial extraction in the mines.
TANZANIA and ZAMBIE: The symbol of Sino-African co-operation is the first major development program that involved a no-interest $500 million in the late 1970s to build a railroad connecting the two countries.
SOUTH AFRICA: The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) obtained last October, 20% of the capital of STANDARD BANK GROUP, the most important institution in Africa.
SOUDAN: China, principal buyer of Sudanese petrol, sells arms to this country. Beijing opposes sanctions to the regime of Khartoum, and is accused of being implicated in the Darfour conflict. In order to elevate it’s image, China elected in 2007, a special representative to Soudan. It also sent 315 soldiers to the Peace mission and the ONU.
KENYA: Beijing at the end of 2007, formed Institute Confucius, a non-profit institution, promoting language, culture, and Chinese relations. A similar Institute was created in Quebec in October 2007.
MADAGASCAR: Beijing offered, in 2007, about 30 scholarships to the ‘Malgaches’ to finance study at a Chinese University. From now until 2009, China plans to offer 4000 scholarships in Africa, up from the current 2000.
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