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Back in the day, before Roe v Wade, Florynce Kennedy summed it up well: "If only men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."

It's the day of life and death in the fight against AIDS right now, not that it hasn't been for twenty years, and that line came back to me when reading this. News Flash! BushCo officials think that if you repeat a lie enough times it will somehow come true!

(via Reuters via WaPo)

The United States fought back Wednesday against widespread attacks on its AIDS policies, insisting it is leading the fight against the killer epidemic and spending more money on it than the rest of the world combined.

But it rejected a plea from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to inject $1 billion a year into a global AIDS fund.

"It's not going to happen," U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Randall Tobias told a small group of reporters at the 15th International AIDS Conference in Bangkok.

Tobias, the former chairman and chief executive of U.S. pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, said the president's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief would buy safe and effective drugs from the cheapest source of supply.

Critics fear the requirement for FDA approval is a tactic to protect patented drug brands from U.S. pharmaceutical companies from cheap generic competitors.

Ya think??

God these people make me sick.