Group of 8 Leaders Announce Pacts on Aid to Africa - New York Times

The aid promised to African nations and the Palestinians must be accompanied by rigid and enforced disciplines that require the $ to be used as intended. The corruption and ineptness of these recipients in the past cannot be allowed to continue.

We (the Western world and Japan) would be stupid to repeat the mistakes of the past where $Billions have been poured down the ratholes of Africa and Arafat's regime, lining the pockets of corrupt people or frittered away by inept bureaucrats.

Bush is 100% correct in his opposition that some arbitrary portion of America's income should flow to Africa.

Click here for a good summary of the issues faced by sub-Saharan Africa.

"But his point man for the summit meeting, Faryar Shirzad, a deputy national security adviser, said later that the aid commitment involved no new money from the United States, only adding up increases previously agreed to. Mr. Bush's opposition also helped doom calls for the rich nations to commit themselves to providing a defined proportion of their national incomes to aid to Africa, a step that would have required much larger contributions from the United States"