How President George W. Bush helped to create South Sudan

New Map of Africa including South Sudan
New Map of Africa including South Sudan

From Investors Business Daily. (H/T Muddling Towards Maturity)

Excerpt:

As South Sudan joyfully celebrated its independence from Sudan, President Obama hailed it as the fruit of partnership, togetherness, hope and unity. South Sudanese, however, hailed President Bush.

Proudly wearing the black cowboy hat given to him by President Bush, South Sudan’s new president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, couldn’t have made a stronger statement about who made his country’s independence possible after 50 years of warfare.

“It was George Bush and the Christian fundamentalists who heard the cry of South Sudan,” affirmed a South Sudanese man quoted by the Los Angeles Times.

[…]In 2005, President Bush put South Sudan at the top of the U.S. foreign policy agenda. Knocking heads, he forced the murderous Islamofascist government of Sudan to negotiate with the South Sudan rebels, including their right to secede. That hard work led to today’s result — and with it, the first chance South Sudan has ever had to break free of its oppression.

No President since Reagan cared more about the freedom of people in other countries than George W. Bush. And a lot of that is owing to his evangelical Christian convictions – he cared about the freedom of other people.

One thought on “How President George W. Bush helped to create South Sudan”

  1. Its nice that you have added South Sudan to your map but you need to remove Rhodesia as there is no country NOW in Africa named thus but what we have is Zimbabwe.
    thank you

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