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Powell unveils plan to reform 'autocratic' Middle East

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This is the aid that contributes to the greater risk of domestic terror in the USA:

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Guest · Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2002 10:22 am Post subject:

US Financial Aid To Israel - Figures, Facts And Impact

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Guest · Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 4:36 am Post subject: THE PRICE OF ISRAEL

DEC. 16, 2002 (COL. 2)

THE PRICE OF ISRAEL

BY CHARLEY REESE

The Christian Science Monitor published in its Dec. 9 edition a story about Thomas

Stauffer, a consulting economist, who said recently that the total cost of U.S. support for

Israel since 1973 is $1.6 trillion, or twice the cost of the Vietnam War.

This is relevant because the Israelis have just demanded from the U.S. taxpayers another $4

billion to cover the cost of their oppression of the Palestinians as well as an $8 billion

loan guarantee.

Ladies and gentleman, there isn't a state in the union that is not facing a financial

crisis, and if the U.S. government caves in yet again to the Israeli lobby on this matter, it

will be prima facie evidence of mass insanity or of the worse corruption since the

administration of Ulysses S. Grant.

Stauffer made his speech in a lecture commissioned by the U.S. Army War College for a

conference at the University of Maine. He has converted past aid into 2001 dollars and counts

this cost as follows:

Israel has been given $240 billion (remember, this is current dollars), while Egypt has

been given $117 billion and Jordan $22 billion as bribes for signing a peace treaty with

Israel.

In 1973, when the Arabs attacked Israel in an effort to recover territory taken by Israel

in the 1967 war, U.S. support for Israel triggered the oil embargo. This, according to

Stauffer, kicked off a recession that cost $420 billion of output; the boost in oil prices

cost $450 billion; the necessity to build a strategic oil reserve, another $134 billion.

He points out that the United States has already guaranteed $10 billion in commercial loans

to Israel and $600 billion in housing loans, and he expects the U.S. Treasury will end up

paying for all of these. He goes on and on listing more costs, direct and indirect. Israel,

for example, is the only recipient of foreign aid allowed to spend a sizeable percentage of

the money on Israeli products rather than American. It's the only country from which our

defense contractors are required to buy a certain amount of Israeli-made equipment. It is the

only foreign country that gets its aid in a lump sum and then invests it in U.S. bonds so that

taxpayers not only make an annual gift to Israel but also have to pay Israel interest on that

gift.

The fact is that the Israeli government and its powerful lobby have taken advantage of the

good-heartedness of the American people. The American people are generous, but never generous

enough to satisfy Israeli demands for more of our people's hard-earned tax dollars.

It is one thing to provide emotional support. It is one thing even to guarantee coming to

the defense of another country if it is attacked. It is quite another to undertake the

permanent subsidy of a foreign country, something our federal government does not even do for

its states. We have all kinds of problems in the United States that need attention. It's time

to tell the Israelis ``We can no longer afford you.''

I highly recommend that you read the complete story in the Monitor

(www.csmonitor.com/2002/1209 /p16s01-wmgn.html). It should open your eyes to a problem that

will not be fixed unless the American people make their voices heard in Washington.

If we are going to be forced to subsidize a foreign country, I would rather it be France.

We can at least get a decent meal in France and enjoy the art treasures collected there.

Furthermore, France would not involve us in its quarrels.

It's America's policy of absolute support for Israel and Israel's cruel treatment of the

Palestinians that are a big part of our problem with terrorism. We stand convicted in the eyes

of the Muslim world of practicing a double standard by condoning Israel's human-rights

violations and protecting it from international sanctions. That, too, is a terrible price the

American people can no longer afford to pay.

(Write to Charley Reese at P.O. Box 2446, Orlando, FL 32802)

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US Vetoes UN's Israel Condemnation Resolution (12-21-02):

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ECONOMIST TALLIES SWELLING COST OF ISRAEL TO US:

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/middle-east-and-asia/2002/12/22/economist-tallies-swelling-cost-of-israel-to-us.php

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US Zionist Chicken hawks Meddle for War

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Guest · Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2002 2:31 am Post subject:

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Office of the Spokesman
December 19, 2002
Fact Sheet
Illustrative Examples of Omissions from the
Iraqi Declaration to the United Nations Security Council

Anthrax and Other Undeclared Biological Agents

The UN Special Commission concluded that Iraq did not verifiably account for, at a minimum, 2160kg of growth media.
This is enough to produce 26,000 liters of anthrax -- 3 times the amount Iraq declared; 1200 liters of botulinum toxin; and, 5500 liters of clostridium perfrigens -- 16 times the amount Iraq declared.
Why does the Iraqi declaration ignore these dangerous agents in its tally?
Ballistic Missiles

Iraq has disclosed manufacturing new energetic fuels suited only to a class of missile to which it does not admit.
Iraq claims that flight-testing of a larger diameter missile falls within the 150km limit. This claim is not credible.
Why is the Iraqi regime manufacturing fuels for missiles it says it does not have?
Nuclear Weapons

The Declaration ignores efforts to procure uranium from Niger.
Why is the Iraqi regime hiding their uranium procurement?
VX

In 1999, UN Special Commission and international experts concluded that Iraq needed to provide additional, credible information about VX production.
The declaration provides no information to address these concerns.
What is the Iraqi regime trying to hide by not providing this information?
Chemical and Biological Weapons Munitions

In January 1999, the UN Special Commission reported that Iraq failed to provide credible evidence that 550 mustard gas-filled artillery shells and 400 biological weapon-capable aerial bombs had been lost or destroyed.
The Iraqi regime has never adequately accounted for hundreds, possibly thousands, of tons of chemical precursors.
Again, what is the Iraqi regime trying to hide by not providing this information?
Empty Chemical Munitions

There is no adequate accounting for nearly 30,000 empty munitions that could be filled with chemical agents.
Where are these munitions?
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Programs

Iraq denies any connection between UAV programs and chemical or biological agent dispersal. Yet, Iraq admitted in 1995 that a MIG-21 remote-piloted vehicle tested in 1991 was to carry a biological weapon spray system.
Iraq already knows how to put these biological agents into bombs and how to disperse biological agent using aircraft or unmanned aerial vehicles.
Why do they deny what they have already admitted? Why has the Iraqi regime acquired the range and auto-flight capabilities to spray biological weapons?
Mobile Biological Weapon Agent Facilities

The Iraqi declaration provides no information about its mobile biological weapon agent facilities. Instead it insists that these are “refrigeration vehicles and food testing laboratories.”
What is the Iraqi regime trying to hide about their mobile biological weapon facilities?
Summary
None of these holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration are mere accidents, editing oversights or technical mistakes: they are material omissions.

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