Liberians: George Bush is a Hero
Was enjoying some of the blogs online today and came across a post written by Kim McLarin for
TheRoot.Com. In the article,
Bush's Liberian Lovefest, the author talks about how she found out Liberians think GDubs is a hero. You can imagine my reaction:
George...A hero? George Bush? President of the United States George Bush?
The notion intrigued me, especially because almost 70 percent of the country he presides over think he's not exactly capable of running a country.
McLarin describes her conversation with Abu, her driver who "drove me through the pitted streets of Monrovia and showed me the palaces which various despots built," while also declaring Bush a hero to the good people of Liberia.
McLarin :
"You mean George Bush?" I asked. Just to clarify.
"He is a great, great man," Abu said.
"George W. Bush?"
"We honor him."
"The president of the United States?"
"He is the most powerful man in the world," Abu went on, which was not unreasonable. "When he said to Charles Taylor, 'It's time to go,' Taylor went. He saved us more bloodshed."
As the author notes, it's hard to argue with that. In July 2003, Bush noted that Taylor had to let go of power and leave Liberia be. Of course, as she noted as well, by the time George made the call, tens of thousands of Liberian had already been brutalized and slaughtered.
McLarin ends the article by urging Bush to go where he is loved. Your thoughts?
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These people are happy becuz George took Charles out….but what they fail to realize is that George did not care about what the hell was going on in their country until other countries which were of interest to the US brought up the issue of Liberia. So yea and George just wants to be remembered for something good but he better stop trying to fool my people…because we, who really know his colors know that he is a hot mess…yes my sista, I beg too…please leave us alone. we can take care of ourselves….Jesus has our back.