"We're already hearing stories about families living on at most one meal a day, children going into the bush to search for wild food and wild fruit, " Mr Lee told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.

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Were Mr. Bush not to pick Baker's poisonous "fruit" out of the salad, however, he will be condemning to death at the hands of our Islamofascist enemies and their enablers large numbers of freedom-loving people - in Iraq, in Israel and in America.

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Having passed the 100-day mark in his second term, President Bush has already harvested most of the low-hanging fruit from the legislative tree on that big hill where Pennsylvania Avenue begins.

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Though few Arabs publicly admit it, Mr Bush's efforts to spread democracy in the region are starting to bear fruit.

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For years, Obama and his national security team argued that, by and large, America's problems in the world resulted not from aggression or the ideological extremism of hostile actors abroad, but were the bitter fruit of America's history of bullying, selfishness and militarism, especially during the George W. Bush administration.

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