Re: Arab World Stunned by Baghdad's Fall

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 12:23:45 MDT

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    matus wrote:
    > Brendan Coffey:
    >
    >
    >>I've been reading extropians for about... 2yr? Something like that.
    >>Here goes my first post...
    >>
    >>I'm kind of alarmed at how I see figures of US foreign military aid
    >>being factually confused and contextually misrepresented.
    >>
    >>>From http://www.fas.org/asmp/profiles/aid_db.htm :
    >>
    >>FMF Budget Request FY 2001: Total budget request: $3.54 billion
    >> Budget request for Israel: $1.98 billion
    >> Budget request for Egypt: $1.3 billion
    >>
    >>$1.3B is not a "tie" with $1.98B. That's a 52.3% difference.
    >
    >

    The figures above are misleading. Not all aid is officially
    labeled military. On aid to Israel alone I recommend reading
    the following sites and some of their links:

    http://www.wrmea.com/html/us_aid_to_israel.htm
    http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/US-Israel/U.S._Assistance_to_Israel1.html
    http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/010201/0101015.html
    http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1209/p16s01-wmgn.htm

    - samantha

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