The United States should accelerate and fully fund the President's Malaria Initiative by $10 Billion

Dropped arguments- 1. Private Charities 2. Economy 3. ACTs, DDT, LLINs 4. Soft Power 5. the fact that he is talking about Maleria (I said Malaria) 6. Causes of Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Niger conflicts 7. The fact that we don't give to any of the countries he mentions Don't let him bring up any of these subjects. That would be EXTREMLY unfair because he gets the last speech. Line by Line- 1. The Iraq War argument is not contextual in this round. He says how bad it is. Sure I agree, what does that have to do with anything? "If your going to use the Iraq war as a comparison for every policy then why should we even stop to think of how much money we are going to spend, since everything is Chump change in comparison." I don't know, you tell me. This has nothing to do with what I'm saying. I don't even understand it. Did I say we should rethink funding for the Iraq War? No. And that fact that you said "we even stop to think of how much money we are going to spend", just helps me. We should rethink what we're doing: shift some of the funding from Iraq to humanitarian aid projects. I would also like to point out that in the time in took for him to respond, we could've allocated the funding for this project about 4 times. 2. He still never clarified his moral ob argument. "Diamonds in Africa are what they call the Oil for guns in the middle east. Diamonds have fueled warlords, militias, genocide and black market guns trade among the region." You just gave me two intresting facts about Blood Diamonds. What does that have to do with a mother clutching her dead baby in her hands because she couldn't get the drugs she needed? I just don't get it. 3. "Most diamonds cant be traced to the original sources" What? Either you mine it in one place or you mine it in another. That doesn't make since. These are eaisly tracable and cannot be traced to the countries I give to. 4. "All the country's under the hemisphere you have mentioned are plagued with Rebels, warlords, militias that are left unchecked and unstable governments, the biggest being Congo." First, did I say the Congo? Ethiopia, Liberia, Kenya, Zambia, Mali, Madagascar, Benin and Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda and Senegal. hmmm... Nope. Second, Ok, you got it. Give me a source on every country I mentioned. They have to be specific to every coutry and have to have the words 'rebels, warloards, and militias'. I will be more inclined to believe you if you do this. 5. Woooowww Darfur. HIS ENTIRE ARGUMENT IS MISINTERPRETED. First, I was simply proving that there are many alternate causalities to these genocides other than blood diamonds. We are not solving for Darfur, because that is what I think he interpreted. Second, that is the biggest contradiction I have ever seen. That source, and your speech, says that China is helping end the conflict. "no country has done more to insulate Khartoum from economic pressure or human rights accountability." And then you say their causing it? Are the providing Human Rights or destroying them and taking away human rights? I just don't get it. Also, my point was that it's not caused by Blood Diamonds. And you proved that. But, it is caused by many things. http://sudanwatch.blogspot.com... http://en.wikipedia.org... "tensions were exacerbated in the last two decades of the twentieth century by a combination of environmental calamity, non-sustainable fast population growth, desertification, political opportunism and regional politics." http://www.signonsandiego.com... "The underlying cause of the present disaster in Darfur is the failure of traditional systems for the allocation of land and water resources and the mediation of conflict." I would also like to point out these were the three sources that first came up when I searched, "Darfur causes" 6. When did this become about throwing money at the problem? The money is for the Drugs, the DDT, and the bed nets. We're not giving money to the governments to go waste it. And we can be sure we don't give it to warlords because WE GIVE IT TO THE PEOPLE WITH MALARIA. Ok, if a warlord has Malaria, I guess we'll give some drugs and a bed net to him. 7. Don't let him keep changing his arguments. Now he says we need troops? What about private charities? What about his argument about we need to work out our problems here first? But, this argument is about Malaria. Since it went uncontested, we can solve for poverty and increase our soft power. If we solve for poverty, that will remove a lot of tension and definetly help end some conflicts. Also, concider this: www.flashpoints.net/mquietdeadlyViolence.html "[E]very fifteen years, on the average, as many people die because of relative poverty as would be killed in a nuclear war that caused 232 million deaths; and every single year, two to three times as many people die from poverty throughout the world as were killed by the Nazi genocide of the Jews over a six-year period. This is, in effect, the equivalent of an ongoing, unending, in fact accelerating, thermonuclear war, or genocide on the weak and poor every year of every decade, throughout the world." Poverty is bigger than Genocide^ 8. "I have showed you how the United States and China" Nope, only said China. And I destroyed that, if I may say it ever so subtly. "Frankly we dont care, it has being said by the current candidates as to how the US turns a blind eye to that part of the world." THANK YOU!!! THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I'M SAYING! We need to increase awarness because we have a moral ob. 9. "We say this to citizens in this country if they dont have insurance, is it so hard to believe we cant say the same to them in a third world country?" First, people in America who don't have insuance brought that upon themselves. And there's still hope. But people with Malaria who can't get the treatment they need and deserve? That's a whole nother story. Second, I severly hope you don't look at dying pregnant women that will be dead in 5 minutes that you can't give her the treatment that would be so easy to recieve. I'm sorry, I can't justify that, Anywhere, Anytime. 10. " MALARIA IS THE BIGGEST EPIDEMIC? It is only one of the Epidemics to face the afflicted African nations" Thank you for saying that. I agree, Malaria is the biggest problem in africa today. 11. "Spend 10Billion dollars in the poor of this nation, in the war veterans who make up more then 1/4 of our homeless population and in the children who lack medical Insurance." Source please In conclusion, it goes uncontested that we can solve, and the only offense the con has is contradictions. Moral Obligation comes before everything else. Tell me, for the sake of humanity, why must we let these people die?