“What a triumph for former president George W. Bush!” Right Wing News proclaimed.
One man… held a sign that read “Thank You George Bush.”
From the LA Times:
Jubilation is everywhere, but in Christian churches, liberation from the mostly Muslim Arab north…
Like many in South Sudan, [Literature prof. and writer Tabon li] Liyong credited the United States, and President George W. Bush in particular, with pushing north and south toward the 2005 peace agreement that ended generations of civil war and paved the way for partition. But his concerns now have turned to future aid.
“It was George Bush and the Christian fundamentalists who heard the cry of South Sudan,” he said.
South Sudanese president Salva Kiir wears a cowboy hat given to him by in 2002 by George W. Bush in all media appearances in honor of the former US President. (Source: Theordore’s World)
