Tim writes:

> It's amazing how short the memory of the left in this country.
>
>  Jan 28,2003 state of the union address?
>
>  http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html

I thought that you might say this and I thought about responding
"pre-emptively," but I didn't. It's important to note at this moment in time,
all that you have are the promises of GW Bush. Not a dime of this money has
been allocated by the Congress and probably never will be. That refusal to
follow through on promises of aid has been a consistent hallmark of the
current administration, not only internally here within US, but abroad as
well, but I would be tickled to be proved wrong in this.


John asks:

> Why don't we start by taking care of our problems at home?  I'm getting
>  tired of taking care of the world.  We've become co-dependents...let them
>  figure it out...sometimes that's the only way kids learn.  And we're going
>  broke trying to help everyone...anybody seen their property tax increase
>  for next year?  Insurance premiums?  I just got both over the weekend.

The most readily saleable package to the American people is to spend
trillions on weapons of mass destruction that will "teach" the world to
behave -- after the fact. It's the tactic that works best with a
testosterone-laden, beer-guzzling male public, but if you want to prevent the
problems before they become problems, and have a truly beneficial effect on
the world, and yet spend only a fraction of the money you have to spend
otherwise, you very much want to convert the US Department of Defense into
something like the World Health Organization, the Food and Agricultural
Organization and the USAID.

If you want peace, work for justice, world health and basic human rights. If
you want war, rebellion and terrorism for as far as the eye can see, continue
to do what we're doing now for the next ten years or so.


Finally, Tim writes:

> The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is an American foundation.  Hence
>  money coming from this country.
>
>  Again I ask, name one country that spends more on these two diseases than
>  the US

Ordinarily, I don't say these kinds of things, but that's the dumbest
response I've seen yet :-).

Wirt Atmar

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