Bush's humanitarian triumph

George Bush as president was a brutal war-monger who cared not a whit about the poor, it's said by some, and you wonder what they are going to do with a fact that shines so large and bright that to ignore it is to admit their own ugly bias.

It is simply this - that Bush did more humanitarian good for the world's poorest, most diseased people than any of his predecessors as much as dreamed of. The instruments were, first off, the Global Fund, an international group fighting AIDS, malaria and TB that he helped start, and then the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief that does its work in Africa, where people absolutely cheer him loudly.

Here's the lowdown on why. It has saved millions of lives...

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