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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 8 months

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George W. Bush, the infamously anti-gay and neoconservative former U.S. president who invaded Iraq on a lie, has criticized congressional Republicans for threatening to defund the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a largely successful African HIV-prevention program that he launched back in 2003. “There is no program more pro-life” than PEPFAR, he wrote.

Though PEPFAR is estimated to have saved over 25 million lives, its funding is set to expire on September 30. Congressional Republicans are falsely claiming that the program promotes abortion and using its re-funding as a bargaining chip in budget negotiations. Republicans have threatened to defund the entire federal government at the end of the month unless they’re allowed to slash military diversity programs and military aid to Ukraine and to increase anti-immigration measures at the U.S.-Mexico border.

“We are on the verge of ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic. To abandon our commitment now would forfeit two decades of unimaginable progress and raise further questions about the worth of America’s word,” Bush wrote in a Wednesday opinion article in The Washington Post.

Bush said that his Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, his White House chief of staff Joshua Bolton, and his senior policy advisor Michael Gerson had advised him to begin PEPFAR. Gerson reportedly told Bush that it would be “a source of national shame” if the U.S. didn’t try to help end the worldwide HIV epidemic.

Bush’s opinion article cited words that Gerson himself had written in defense of PEPFAR in November 2017: “Are Republicans in Congress prepared to squander a legacy of GOP leadership that has won the United States considerable goodwill around the world? Among evangelical Christians, what definition of being ‘pro-life’ does not include saving millions of lives from preventable disease and death?”

Adding his own thoughts, Bush wrote, “There is no program more pro-life than one which has saved more than 25 million lives. I urge Congress to reauthorize PEPFAR for another five years without delay.”

During his presidency, Bush backed a constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage, and used bans on same-sex marriage to help him win re-election in 2004. While he served, 27 states banned same-sex marriage.

Despite Bush’s anti-gay record, PEPFAR was “a sound investment in U.S. security,” Ben Plumley, the former CEO of the now-defunct international HIV organization Pangea, said in a now-deleted interview with Hornet.com. Plumley said the program “generated very significant goodwill towards the United States” and countered “the spread of radical Islam or radical anti-Western attitudes in sub-Saharan Africa.”

Plumley also noted that most HIV transmissions in sub-Saharan Africa are heterosexual, meaning that conservative Republicans could support PEPFAR without worrying about seeming too overtly supportive of the LGBTQ+ community.

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chiefofboatwatsonstittymug · 5 months

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I'm just saying, if she has Condy on speed dial-

(NCIS meets 30 Rock)

#ncis #30 rock #jenny shepard #condoleezza rice #also i don't believe Two (2) of my shows have characters dating the belle of the bush administration #my edits

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news4dzhozhar · 2 months

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gravalicious · 5 months

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“The third cartoon (Matson, 2005b) shows a topless Condoleezza Rice in an “Official portrait of the Secretary of State’s triumphant return to France.” It is hard to imagine that even a cartoonist could get away with an image that reveals the breasts of the Secretary of State; however, Matson can do it because he is using Delacroix’s iconic portrait of the French Revolution: Liberty Guiding the People. The cartoonist is using irony to criticize the policies of Secretary Rice, who was not precisely guiding the French to freedom. But political comment aside, he is also tapping into a sexual fantasy that involves a semi-naked Condoleezza Rice standing next to a small cowboy-dressed George W. Bush.[2]”

Source: Sheena C. Howard - Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation (2013: 179)

#condoleezza rice #politics #sexualisation #race #gender #usa #france #geopolitics #political cartoon

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loveboatinsanity · 1 year

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#condoleezza rice

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istandwithrussiaandpalestine30 · 2 years

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Russian Pres Vladimir Putin arrives at Bush home in Kennebunkport, Maine with Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. on July 2, 2007.

#vladimir putin #vova #george h.w. bush #george w bush #barbara bush #laura bush #Condoleezza Rice #russia #usa #united states of america #vladimir vladimirovich putin #vladdy daddy #what happened to this relationship #putinedit #my edits #Владимир Путин #российский президент #papa got swag

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jyndor · 1 year

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how the fuck did jon stewart flub that interview with condi rice and hillary clinton so badly holy shit ‘no democratic country has ever used wmds’ are you SERIOUS JON YOU’RE GONNA LET THAT SLIDE??? WHO USED NUKES????

jesus christ both those women should be put in prison for the rest of their sad little lives

#man idk hes such a good interviewer and he's the literal guy who made me realize the nukes were a war crime at 16 #like ??? bro #lol rip to you #jon stewart #war crimes #hillary clinton #condoleezza rice

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cyarskj52 · 2 months

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Condoleeza was nothing but background noise for Bush. She did what she was told!

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dosesofcommonsense · 5 months

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Comedian Steve Hughes Drops More Truth Inside A 12-Min Comedy Bit Than The MSM In A Week Of Coverage.

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#truth #common sense #msm is the enemy #george bush #henry kissinger #condoleezza rice #steve hughes #war on terror #Youtube

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antebellumite · 9 months

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well this is something

#george w bush #vladimir putin #modern politics #dick cheney #condoleezza rice

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motivational-quotes-from-baddies · 10 months

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#quotes from baddies #condoleezza rice

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gravalicious · 5 months

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Source: Sheena C. Howard - Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation (2013: 178)

#condoleezza rice #comic #art #geopolitics #race #political cartoon #gender #sexuality

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pdlussier · 1 year

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Only neocons brainwashed into seeing half the world as foes, doing so, boiled down to core, due to the 'evil' these may present to Western banks and the USD, and the threat this presents to the complete dominance....

#jon stewart #imperialism #neocons #hillary clinton #condoleezza rice

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jjasportstudio · 2 years

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#american football #sport #news #nfl #denver broncos #condoleezza rice #jja sport studio #ilona hunt

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istandwithrussiaandpalestine30 · 2 months

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Russian President Vladimir Putin visited 3 states of the United States of America on September 14 − 17, 2005. In New Jersey, he had a ceremony of laying the foundation stone for the monument to the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and visited the local residents there. In New York, he visited the U.N. and visited the Russia! exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum under the President’s auspices on the occasion of the 60th session of the UN General Assembly. Even a huge exhibit such as this cannot show all the wealth of Russian art. But what you see here will be enough to understand the importance of Russian culture for world civilisation,” Vladimir Putin noted. At Washington D.C., he and George W. Bush held a press conference in the East Room of the White House on September 16, 2005, in Washington, DC. The two discussed nuclear proliferation issues and also Russian aid to the U.S. hurricane victims.

#vladimir vladimirovich putin #george w bush #sergei lavrov #condoleezza rice #Президент России Владимир Путин #Сергей Лавров #США #Джордж Буш

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