Message: I Care

BushCo is going to Latin America to let them know how much we love them all - the ones committed to Democracy anyway:

"The trip is to remind people that we care," Bush said in an interview Wednesday with CNN En Espanol. "I do worry about the fact that some say, `Well, the United States hasn't paid enough attention to us,' or `The United States really isn't anything more than worried about terrorism.' And when, in fact, the record has been a strong record."

But:

The White House notes that foreign assistance to Latin America has grown from more than $800 million when he first took office to $1.6 billion. While total aid to Latin America is up, the budget request Bush submitted to Congress in January reduces money for development assistance and programs for children's health and survival, said Dan Restrepo, a former member of the Democratic staff of the House International Relations Committee.

                 

D'oh!

Comments

[Thomas Nephew]

Saw the title via my "live bookmarks" and figured it was about the mulch pile of commissions they've set up now about Walter Reed. Message: I Care If It Hurts.

[mick arran]

I wrote today about a speech he made in front of the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce just as he's leaving. This trip is either a joke or an attempt to skip out on having to respond to stuff like Walter Reed and the Libby verdict: pardon or no? Either way, he is hated in Latin America like nowhere else, and it's a disaster waiting to happen. They threw rocks at Nixon and they liked him better.