An $8.5 million dollar Sesame Street for Indonesia

[spindrifter]

C*ndi, C*ndi, what have you been smokin'?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/14/AR2006031400817.html

Rice Praises Indonesia As Model of 'Tolerance'


By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, March 15, 2006

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At a joint news conference with Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda, Rice defended the Bush administration's anti-terrorism policies, which have aroused criticism and violent protests in many Muslim countries, including Indonesia.

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She also suggested that the United States is sometimes misunderstood, and she stressed "how much the United States respects people who are of Islamic faith." Before the news conference, Rice visited an Islamic school, where she announced an $8.5 million grant to develop a version of "Sesame Street" for Indonesia.

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"I wish Americans could see this Islamic school," Rice told reporters, on the first day of a two-day visit. "Here you have young boys and young girls in their traditions, but learning their national curriculum, working together. . . . I'm sure they're going to be young people who are going to be very capable in the world."

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[redphish]

1. It amazes me that bush & co could actually think that anyone

will take the bullshit that flows out of their mouths seriously.

[spindrifter]

2. It's so patronizing.