Fair enough, Jeri. So seein' as there isn't any particular world movement to provide drugs and/or treatment for health related problems in Africa, why not provide food and water and see what happens...

Oh, there are lots of folks who will step up and say the we *are* providing the medical care and the drugs thru various organizations, the CDC and the World Health Organization but are we really making the kind of effort that has any chance of sucess? Well, not really. I mean if we are willing to let upwards of a million folks starve ijn Sudan this summer then you can bet those folks certainly have fallen thru the WHO net as well...

And lets also take a look on the Bush AIDS assistence program for Africa. First of all they are not spending the money or writing the checks that he said would be spent. Secondly, it is pushing abstainance at a time, if many of you folks are even half correct, is not a realistic centerpiece of it's educational programs for Africa.

But I'm still suggesting strongly that when this is all said and done there gonna be a few folks sayin' "How did that ol' hillbilly get this one right?" I think the research is badly flawed in favor of a tidy story. Heck, the jury ain't even out on this one yet but should be getting the case somewhere down the road and then I'll resurrect this thread and a local recipe fir crow pie... That's my story and until the jury gets the case and comes back, Iz stickin' to it...

Bobert