Tuesday, June 07, 2005

The Short(est) Story Contest Presents: African Debt Relief 101

President George Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair want to fix Africa!

no, seriously!

they want to work together to forgive African debt relief!

no, seriously!

they even had a big press conference and photo-op to discuss it!

no, seriously!!!

they got a shout-out in a Yahoo! News headline that almost speaks for itself!

no, seriously!!!!!!

i mean...

it almost has too...


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Bush, Blair Work on Plan for African Aid

By JENNIFER LOVEN
Associated Press Writer
12 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - President Bush on Tuesday pledged to work with British Prime Minister Tony Blair to forgive the debt of developing African nations.

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there!

see?

did you catch that?

see, i told you!

done!

now, wait a minute...

you don't have to read the rest of the article...

no, seriously...


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Standing alongside Blair, Bush also defended a stance on global warming that is at odds with the views of the British and many other American allies.

Questioned by a reporter, Bush for the first time addressed a 2002 memo suggesting that the United States bent intelligence to justify a decision to invade Iraq and sought British cooperation.

"There's nothing farther from the truth," Bush said. "Both of us didn't want to use our military. It was our last option."

Said Blair: "The facts were not being fixed in any shape or form at all."

SOURCE - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050607/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_blair

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uhh,

hey...

anybody got Bono's celly?