Mr. Obiang Goes to Washington

The Foreign Policy has a blog entry on Equatorial Guinea's president and dictator in charge, Obiang, visit to Washington. He was accepted by Secretary of State Rice, who welcomed him to America. Why would America accept a dictator's visit in Washington? Well, for starters, Equatorial Guinea may have an estimated 10% of the world's reserves of oil, and many US companies have been pouring money into the country. While Obiang could care less for democracy, tortures his people and funnels state funds to personal US bank accounts, he plays nice with American's wishing to stick a needle into his country's oil veins to bleed it dry.

Is it just me, or does this strike other people as being just wrong?

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