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2006-08-22 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Bush pledges US$180 million more in humanitarian aid to Lebanon
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Posted by trailing wife 2006-08-22 11:41|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 I voted for that jerk twice and now he throws my tax dollars away. Screw U 2 Bushy.
Posted by wxjames 2006-08-22 12:03||   2006-08-22 12:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Stupid. They'll just fund the Hezzies.
Posted by mojo">mojo  2006-08-22 12:06||   2006-08-22 12:06|| Front Page Top

#3 The question I always ask, "What's in it for us?"
And, like a cop or a good lawyer, I already know the answer...
Posted by tu3031 2006-08-22 12:06||   2006-08-22 12:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Find rathole. Insert money.
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-08-22 12:16||   2006-08-22 12:16|| Front Page Top

#5 I read a 122mm GRAD rocket is $200. Thanks for rearming, and more, the Hezzbies, Mr. Bush. You've saved the Iranians a good chunk of change tp spend on their nuclear bombs.
Posted by ed 2006-08-22 12:30||   2006-08-22 12:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Bah.
Posted by Elmairt Unoluck5241 2006-08-22 13:05||   2006-08-22 13:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Just give me the money. I'll make sure Lebanon is rebuilt. Really. You can trust me like Hezbollah!
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2006-08-22 13:57||   2006-08-22 13:57|| Front Page Top

#8 "Our nation is wasting no time in helping the people of Lebanon buy new kit, rearm and refit.

How do you spell 'Halliburton' in Russian? Putty must be smiling.
Posted by Besoeker 2006-08-22 14:20||   2006-08-22 14:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Let me guess...

1) We give $180 million to Lebanon.

2) Lebanon 'frees up' $180 million to give to Hizbollah Humanatarian Aid.

3) Hizbollah distributes $180 Million to the Lebanonese people.

4) Lebanonese people see Hizbollah as great contributers and support for the them rises.

5) PROFIT???

Note also that we GIVE money to Hizbollah Lebanon while only LOANing money to Israel.
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-08-22 14:32||   2006-08-22 14:32|| Front Page Top

#10 More mixed signals from the Oval Office.

"We must fight terrorism on all fronts, oh and by the way Israel, lay off of Hezbollah for right now, okay?"

"All funding for terrorism must be cut off at the roots, no money for Hamas! Oh and here's umpteen million for a people who have voted terrorists into office."

I realize that politics is the art of compromise, but someone dearly needs to instruct Bush in how to deal with those whose sole objective is to kill us with all due haste.
Posted by Zenster 2006-08-22 14:38||   2006-08-22 14:38|| Front Page Top

#11 Bush should've remembered the old Beatles' song about money, "Can't Buy Me Love".
Posted by Duh! 2006-08-22 14:52||   2006-08-22 14:52|| Front Page Top

#12 If you like those mixed signals Z, check this out wrt illegal immigration:

During the Clinton yrs 95-98, *each yr* the fed gov'mt arrested roughly 14,000 illegals and fined about 100+ or so businesses for hiring illegals.

In Bush admin yr 2004 (the only yr there are stats on currently) - only 159 illegals were arrested and only 3 businesses were fined.

Now, I will take Bush over the huxter any day of the week but this is obscene. Our federal gov't to include most of the hacks in the senate do not give a rip about U.S. sovereingty so long as some major repub donors get their non-union cheap labor and the dimmys get their assumed voting block of ignorant illegals. Pathetic. Almost time for a revolution in the jeffersonian sense.
Posted by Broadhead6 2006-08-22 15:08||   2006-08-22 15:08|| Front Page Top

#13 Most of this will go into the USAID black hole. But over the last month I know of a couple NGOs that were funded to go in and provide aid, mostly to the hospitals and clinics.
Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan  2006-08-22 15:33||   2006-08-22 15:33|| Front Page Top

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