Wintry welcome awaits Bush in South Africa (They got Juniors number)

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/10576836572.htm

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - When U.S. President George W. Bush visits South Africa on Wednesday he may be struck by the chill of the southern hemisphere winter.

His welcome could be equally cool.

South Africa, Africa's economic powerhouse and its political champion abroad, is a key part of any U.S. plan to tighten ties between Washington and the world's poorest continent.

But the Bush administration has raised hackles with its unilateral approach to world affairs -- many South Africans fear a more assertive United States may mean more trouble for Africa.

"George W. Bush's government has been the mouthpiece for U.S. big business interests, pushing for world governments to adopt economic policies that are in their interests," the powerful Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) said in a statement ahead of Bush's visit to Pretoria.

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[Mountainman]

1. I had to laugh at Paul Harvey's story about Bush visiting Africa.

I don't listen to Paul regularly but just for a minute I tuned him in. He said that Bush was visiting Africa. 5 countries in 5 days.
He says Bush is enough of an oil man to know that there is oil in Afica which could supplement our Mid East oil.

[DemoTex]

2. Love it!

OUR Mid East oil! Harvey sounds just like Rush Limbaugh.