U.S. Money Aids World’s Worst Dictators !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AGENDA21]

Parade magazine recently ranked the twenty worst dictators currently in power. Many names are familiar—Fidel Castro, Muammar Qaddafi, Kim Jong-Il, Robert Mugabe and others. They are all guilty of human rights violations and in some cases have committed outright genocide. But there’s another trait common to all twenty leaders—every single one has received foreign aid from wealthy Western countries.

Popular Washington, D.C., rhetoric says that development aid should be dispensed to corruption-free countries with laws and policies conducive to supporting sustained economic growth. President Bush created Millennium Challenge Accounts to funnel aid to such countries. However, few countries have qualified for the program and little money has actually been disbursed. Instead, we find that both the U.S. and its partner countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), have contributed a great deal of aid to these oppressive regimes.

http://independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1671

[acmejack]

1. And this is a news flash why?

We have propped up the most despicable despots in the world for decades. It is time to come to grips with the unpleasant fact that our foreign policy is ugly. Our international face is UGLY! We are not NICE PEOPLE!

[AGENDA21]

6. You have to admit,there're people out there who dont know this.

[rpannier]

2. Absolutely awesome article

Your article is very informative. Thank You.

BTW: I'm giving you a greatest page post and a heart for your article.

[AGENDA21]

5. Thankyou very much.

[malaise]

3. Promote development?

Not only has it failed to promote development, in many cases our aid has supported oppressive dictatorships.
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It was never supposed to promote development. As long as they defend US and British interests, everything is A OK, including every violation of human rights.

[NNN0LHI]

4. Robert Mugabe even made it to the popes funeral to pay his respects

http://www.guardian.co.uk/pope/story/0,12272,1455383,00.html

Charles shakes hands with Mugabe



Prince Charles shakes hands with Robert Mugabe during Pope John Paul II's funeral. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images