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Africa North
John Kerry releases $250m in US aid to Egypt as reward for political reforms
2013-03-04
[GUARDIAN.CO.UK] US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
 on Sunday rewarded Egypt for president Mohammed Morsi's pledges of political and economic reforms by releasing $250m in American aid to support the country's "future as a democracy".
Sequester? What sequester?
Isn't that the money that the House Foreign Affairs Committee forbade disbursing, so long as Egypt's new government insisted on being so Islamist?
Yet Kerry also served notice that the B.O. regime will keep close watch on how Morsi, who came to power in June as Egypt's first freely elected president, honors his commitment and that additional assistance would depend on it.

"The path to that future has clearly been difficult and much work remains," Kerry said in a statement after wrapping up two days of meetings in Egypt, a deeply divided country in the wake of the revolution that ousted longtime president Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
Egypt is trying to meet conditions to close on a $4.8bn loan package from the International Monetary Fund. An agreement would unlock more of the $1bn in US assistance promised by President Barack Obama
If you have a small business, you didn't build that...
last year and set to begin flowing with Kerry's announcement.
Posted by:Fred

#4  See long running General Dynamics army tank program in Egypt.

Follow the money.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-03-04 09:54  

#3  And what was the "political reform being rewarded? Did mursi pluck a single nostril hair or something?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2013-03-04 08:38  

#2  But, but, but what about the DoD elementary schools, recently released free-ranging illegal aliens, and Blue Nights flying hour program ?

This entire administration should be arrested and JAILED for treason!
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-03-04 03:23  

#1  Too bad it wasn't his own money. He would've wrote them an IOU on a bar napkin. For about 12 bucks...
Posted by: tu3031   2013-03-04 00:55  

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