Mr. President, Africa Needs Us

Bono contributes an article to today’s Washington Post: “I’m in the business of making music; I know about screaming crowds. President Bush is in the business of making history. I’m convinced that if he stands before Congress tomorrow night and declares that Africa’s AIDS epidemic is an emergency, people watching in America and around the world will stand up, cheer and volunteer to help.”

34 thoughts on “Mr. President, Africa Needs Us

  1. If he stands up tomorrow and says that, I will stand up and celebrate together with Helena Bonham-Carter and Liz Hurley cos they’ll be round my place serving my every need…If you dream, then dream out loud!

  2. If he stands up tomorrow and says that, I will stand up and celebrate together with Helena Bonham-Carter and Liz Hurley cos they’ll be round my place serving my every need…If you dream, then dream out loud!

  3. I would encourage EVERYONE to post to the message board at the Washington Post in response to Bono’s open letter to the President. If THOUSANDS of people “sign on” to the letter, the Post will see it as a news story in and of itself. Tell all your friends to comment on this article in the Washington Post message boards and to call the White House and say that you agree with the editorial in today’s Post and more aid needs to be sent to Africa.

  4. I would encourage EVERYONE to post to the message board at the Washington Post in response to Bono’s open letter to the President. If THOUSANDS of people “sign on” to the letter, the Post will see it as a news story in and of itself. Tell all your friends to comment on this article in the Washington Post message boards and to call the White House and say that you agree with the editorial in today’s Post and more aid needs to be sent to Africa.

  5. I would encourage EVERYONE to post to the message board at the Washington Post in response to Bono’s open letter to the President. If THOUSANDS of people “sign on” to the letter, the Post will see it as a news story in and of itself. Tell all your friends to comment on this article in the Washington Post message boards and to call the White House and say that you agree with the editorial in today’s Post and more aid needs to be sent to Africa.

  6. I would encourage EVERYONE to post to the message board at the Washington Post in response to Bono’s open letter to the President. If THOUSANDS of people “sign on” to the letter, the Post will see it as a news story in and of itself. Tell all your friends to comment on this article in the Washington Post message boards and to call the White House and say that you agree with the editorial in today’s Post and more aid needs to be sent to Africa.

  7. i will always always always admire and respect Bono for his tireless efforts to encourage us to believe the system really works. I respect how deeply he tries to motivate us to get that system to work.

    But I also remember a quote of his from long long ago –and I’ll be thinking about it on Tuesday night.

    “No matter who you vcte for the government always gets in.”

  8. i will always always always admire and respect Bono for his tireless efforts to encourage us to believe the system really works. I respect how deeply he tries to motivate us to get that system to work.

    But I also remember a quote of his from long long ago –and I’ll be thinking about it on Tuesday night.

    “No matter who you vcte for the government always gets in.”

  9. bono why don’t you directly ask bush to stop thinking about the war to iraq, north korea or anywhere he just dislikes? you always talk about peace, show it to him. and you american, let yr great president know you don’t want a war, you don’t want yr heavy tax to be used for bombing and killing the innocents, children, but not saddam hussein (i sincerely want saddam to die, but you know you cannot kill him. why? where is laden now?) after 911 you people need heros, you made him yr messiah, but now you should know he’s just hitler reincarnated. and a moron who can’t even stop his 2 good daughters from drinking, but tries to take on the world. and you let him do it. please, no more killing, no more blood for oil.

  10. bono why don’t you directly ask bush to stop thinking about the war to iraq, north korea or anywhere he just dislikes? you always talk about peace, show it to him. and you american, let yr great president know you don’t want a war, you don’t want yr heavy tax to be used for bombing and killing the innocents, children, but not saddam hussein (i sincerely want saddam to die, but you know you cannot kill him. why? where is laden now?) after 911 you people need heros, you made him yr messiah, but now you should know he’s just hitler reincarnated. and a moron who can’t even stop his 2 good daughters from drinking, but tries to take on the world. and you let him do it. please, no more killing, no more blood for oil.

  11. bono why don’t you directly ask bush to stop thinking about the war to iraq, north korea or anywhere he just dislikes? you always talk about peace, show it to him. and you american, let yr great president know you don’t want a war, you don’t want yr heavy tax to be used for bombing and killing the innocents, children, but not saddam hussein (i sincerely want saddam to die, but you know you cannot kill him. why? where is laden now?) after 911 you people need heros, you made him yr messiah, but now you should know he’s just hitler reincarnated. and a moron who can’t even stop his 2 good daughters from drinking, but tries to take on the world. and you let him do it. please, no more killing, no more blood for oil.

  12. bono why don’t you directly ask bush to stop thinking about the war to iraq, north korea or anywhere he just dislikes? you always talk about peace, show it to him. and you american, let yr great president know you don’t want a war, you don’t want yr heavy tax to be used for bombing and killing the innocents, children, but not saddam hussein (i sincerely want saddam to die, but you know you cannot kill him. why? where is laden now?) after 911 you people need heros, you made him yr messiah, but now you should know he’s just hitler reincarnated. and a moron who can’t even stop his 2 good daughters from drinking, but tries to take on the world. and you let him do it. please, no more killing, no more blood for oil.

  13. Moe, Please educate yourself on the root of terrorism in the Middle East. From the Palestinian Authority via Damascus via Baghdad. That’s the route. It’s bigger than you think.

  14. Moe, Please educate yourself on the root of terrorism in the Middle East. From the Palestinian Authority via Damascus via Baghdad. That’s the route. It’s bigger than you think.

  15. There is an intriguing parallel between Bono’s Heart of America tour and the country-wide speaking tour Pres. Woodrow Wilson took after WWI to convince people that America needed to join the League of Nations and ratify the Treaty of Versailles. Both Wilson and Bono were not asking for money or votes; they just wanted a show of faith from the American people. They both did it because they believed wholeheartedly in the goodness of their goals. Near the end of his tour, under extraordinary pressure, Wilson suffered a terrible stroke that incapacitated him for the short remainder of his life. The US never joined the League of Nations or ratified the Treaty of Versailles. He died a broken man because of it. It remains to be seen if Bono will have a more positive effect.

  16. There is an intriguing parallel between Bono’s Heart of America tour and the country-wide speaking tour Pres. Woodrow Wilson took after WWI to convince people that America needed to join the League of Nations and ratify the Treaty of Versailles. Both Wilson and Bono were not asking for money or votes; they just wanted a show of faith from the American people. They both did it because they believed wholeheartedly in the goodness of their goals. Near the end of his tour, under extraordinary pressure, Wilson suffered a terrible stroke that incapacitated him for the short remainder of his life. The US never joined the League of Nations or ratified the Treaty of Versailles. He died a broken man because of it. It remains to be seen if Bono will have a more positive effect.

  17. Please Mr. Bush, lose focus on what you have been dealing with so that tax payers can be forced into spending money that goes directly into the pockets of corrupt African dictators. Bono says that’s the way it should be, and Mr. Liberal Egomaniac is always right… as long as right is left. Mr. Bush, you’ll anger most of the country but at least you’ll please U2 worshippers and those who think it is hip to be dissillusioned with the United States.

  18. Please Mr. Bush, lose focus on what you have been dealing with so that tax payers can be forced into spending money that goes directly into the pockets of corrupt African dictators. Bono says that’s the way it should be, and Mr. Liberal Egomaniac is always right… as long as right is left. Mr. Bush, you’ll anger most of the country but at least you’ll please U2 worshippers and those who think it is hip to be dissillusioned with the United States.

  19. Moe, I’m impressed. Most political imbeciles assert that Bush is a reincarnated Hitler – which conveniently raises the specter of the Holocaust without any details, any actual proof that Bush has done anything comparable. They assert that Bush is a moron – that he’s evil and stupid, which is a difficult combination. And they assert that the inevitable war with Iraq is about oil – if oil was our primary concern, we’d be trying to work a deal with Saddam, same as the French and the Russians. Most imbeciles assert all these things, but they rarely do so in such a succinct manner. I salute you for your brevity and your stupidity.

  20. Moe, I’m impressed. Most political imbeciles assert that Bush is a reincarnated Hitler – which conveniently raises the specter of the Holocaust without any details, any actual proof that Bush has done anything comparable. They assert that Bush is a moron – that he’s evil and stupid, which is a difficult combination. And they assert that the inevitable war with Iraq is about oil – if oil was our primary concern, we’d be trying to work a deal with Saddam, same as the French and the Russians. Most imbeciles assert all these things, but they rarely do so in such a succinct manner. I salute you for your brevity and your stupidity.

  21. edu, you should know that WE trained the people who later became terrorists so they could fight OUR war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Hate and violence is coming back to haunt us. (PS, I’m an American too.)

  22. edu, you should know that WE trained the people who later became terrorists so they could fight OUR war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Hate and violence is coming back to haunt us. (PS, I’m an American too.)

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