Major Concession

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Now this president has no idea why he gets such a cool reception from other world nations. Money to an MBA is something you throw everywhere to solve problems:

from NY Times of 5 Sept 2003
This week, international experts enlisted by the American-led occupation authorities estimated that the loss of oil revenues and cost of operating a civilian government in Iraq is projected at $20 billion for 2004.

That figure was given to diplomats from potential donor nations in Brussels this week, and by all accounts they were stunned.

"Think of it this way," said an official familiar with the Brussels session. "You'd be putting more than a third of the world's development assistance in 2004 into a country with the second largest oil reserves in the world. Imagine what that does to the rest of the poor countries in the world. All of Africa doesn't get that much money."

Classic MBA. Money means nothing to him especially when it is someone elses money. No wonder he ran a surplus into the biggest debt this nation has ever seen in but his first two years. And then he does not understand why other nations so distrust him? They love America. They don't trust George Jr. Just another in the long list of reasons why.