US policy in Africa

Almost spit out my coffee reading this one:

President Bush refused on Wednesday to budge on his administration's opposition to doubling aid for Africa, a major proposal on the agenda for a summit meeting of industrial nations next month in Scotland.

The long-simmering dispute could culminate next week when Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, who has advocated the plan, visits Washington in advance of the July session, a meeting of the Group of 8. As host of the meeting, Mr. Blair set the agenda, and he argued during his successful campaign for a third term in office that the world's richest nations had to make a $25 billion increase in support for Africa. But Mr. Bush has been cool to the idea from the start and has resisted making new aid commitments.

Asked Wednesday about the issue, Mr. Bush said, "It doesn't fit our budgetary process."

and later:

"It might be fine for some in the United States to make all kinds of statements," he [Bush] said later. "If you denounce Sudan as genocidal, what next? Don't you have to arrest the president? The solution doesn't lie in making radical solutions - not for us in Africa."

Doubling our Africa aid "doesn't fit our budgetary process." Going into Iraq made sense, but stopping actual genocide in Sudan is a "radical solution." I'm depressed.

UPDATE: The quote about Sudan above does not appear in the White House transcript of the event. I don't know why.