I am 100% positive that Bush is opposed to third world debt relief, as he well should be. These debts were contracted in good faith. They were not grants, and they should be repaid.
Ummmm... actually no.
The majority of debt to the US by third would countries was not taken out in "good faith" at all.
Most of it is debt that was taken on by puppet dictators during the Cold War, and used to build infrastructure at the direction of American multi-national corproations.
The way the system works you see is that the US would overthrow a governmetn in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, etc, put in a puppet military dictator and give him millions of dollars in "foreign" that he would then use to kill his own citizens and form a police state to oppress his people at the direction of the CIA.
Then the dictator would be instructed to take out loans from US lenders, the American government, the IMF and WorldBank.
The money from those loans would then be used to do things liek build deep water ports near natural resource reserves, railroads connecting mines and timber locations, logging roads and communications equipment needed for multi-national corporations to operate.
Then, one all of this infrastructure was built, at the expese of the small theird world country, under military rule by the US puppet, the multinational corporations come in and "harvest" all the resources at dirt cheap prices, paying the local workers less than a dollar a day in some cases, such that no real income was made on the "investments".
Meanwhile, the corporations make off with all the value and leave the third world country pennyless with no means to pay back its loan because all its most valued resources have already been squandered.
That is how the West has gotten rich you see. And that is why the third world is in debt you see.
THE LOANS WERE NEVER MADE IN GOOD FAITH!
"The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us." - Teddy Roosevelt