Stop Bush

At the Solidays Concert Festival, a benefit event for Solidarité-SIDA, and AIDS Awareness and Prevention Organization, I noticed this poster about French political courage. The statement is roughly translated as "We would like to be able salute the political courage of France in a new way. Sign the petition!" and, in the version I saw, included the following subtitle:
Nous sommes de plus en plus nombreux à refuser l'abandon de millions de malades du sida dans les pays pauvres. A un an des élections présidentielles, nous devons en faire la preuve.
Which is translated roughly as
"Increasing numbers of us refuse to abandon the millions of victims of AIDS in poor countries. In a year of presidential elections, we should prove it."
There was also an additional line which specifically pointed out the Bush administration's failure to make facilitating the distribution of AIDS treatments in Africa a priority, while preserving the profits of pharmaceutical companies.
I can appreciate that Bush needs to be stopped, but I found this sign a bit depressing, because the fact of the matter was that, despite all the courage that France can claim for standing against the war in Iraq, Bush wasn't stopped. A quarter million people died in the tsunami of December 2004, but 2.4 million people die in subsaharan Africa every year because of lack of treatment for AIDS. Courage is admirable, but it would be nice to have the power to change things.