MSNBC: Bush has another agenda in Africa (Oil!)

[JaneQPublic]

Try to act surprised.

http://msnbc.com/news/934126.asp?0cv=CB10

--Oil quest may outflank efforts to end conflict, aid development

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Now, with strife in Liberia focusing new attention on the continent, Bush says he wants to send the message to Africa that Americans care. He also has a new motivation to make friends on the continent: oil.

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“I think it’s positive that he’s traveling to Africa and paying attention to the continent,” says Ian Gary, strategic issues adviser for Catholic Relief Services, which operates aid and development programs in 22 countries on the continent. “But there are holes in the Bush Africa policy.”

One of those holes, according to Gary and other observers, is the new emphasis placed on Africa as a source of oil — part of a strategy to move the United States away from dependence on Middle Eastern oil, particularly since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. And development experts say an oil investment boom in Africa, unless properly handled, could do far more harm than all the other policies are doing good.

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While in Senegal, Bush will meet with the heads of seven West African states — a list that by definition includes tiny countries with large undeveloped oil resources on the Gulf of Guinea. Diplomacy with these countries has ramped up since 2001...

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[Heddi]

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[phillybri]

2. I'm trying to look surprised, but it's not working....

:eyes:

[mbperrin]

3. OMG! Oil!

Oil! as a Bush incentive!!!!

Nah, can't believe that, never happened before. He is the Anointed One!

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