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2007-01-05 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tu3031 2007-01-05 14:27|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Let's instead end this fraud known as Palestine.

Pass a law endorsing Israeli annexation of Gaza, the West Bank and the western third of Syria.

Then give Abbas $8.3 million, a plane ticket and a hooker if he signs an agreement to never come back.

I wish someone'd make me a deal like that!

Posted by badanov 2007-01-05 14:40|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2007-01-05 14:40|| Front Page Top

#2 WE luv you Bush keep it up!

Posted by DemoCrap 2007-01-05 14:40|| 2007-01-05 14:40|| Front Page Top

#3 What can we get for $200,000?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-01-05 14:53|| 2007-01-05 14:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Aid to Abbas $83 million.

Aid to Egypt $2 billion a year.

Palestinian Civil War - Priceless.

Posted by liberalhawk 2007-01-05 15:57|| 2007-01-05 15:57|| Front Page Top

#5 How about cutting off the "put up and shut up" money? Hmmm? Hard for leaders to keep their gunmen quiet without $$$. They just might turn on them and each other.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-01-05 16:12|| 2007-01-05 16:12|| Front Page Top

#6 But... but... what about the baby ducks that just NEED that money? Are you inferring that they use that money for Really Bad Things?
(/sarc)

Posted by eLarson 2007-01-05 16:14|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-01-05 16:14|| Front Page Top

#7 So does the $83 mil get added to the $430 mil bill from last year or does the meter reset on Jan. 1?

Posted by ed 2007-01-05 16:15|| 2007-01-05 16:15|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm fine with it as long as it's $83M worth of Spam.

Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan 2007-01-05 16:34|| 2007-01-05 16:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Stuck on stupid.

Posted by SR-71 2007-01-05 16:40|| 2007-01-05 16:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Einstein's definition of insanity.

Posted by Shaimble Gloluter3863 2007-01-05 16:51|| 2007-01-05 16:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Not unless Abbas publicly denounces and dumps the Fatah a**wipe who just last week promoted attacks on Americans. Ready to raise a blog stink, fellow WoT patriots?

Posted by Jules 2007-01-05 17:08|| 2007-01-05 17:08|| Front Page Top

#12 Ok, Dems. Make yourselves useful.

Posted by gorb 2007-01-05 18:09|| 2007-01-05 18:09|| Front Page Top

#13 Mr. President, merely because Abbas has been too busy for the past two or three weeks to ask in Arabic for the destruction of Israel, doesn't mean you can believe him when he tells your State Dept. that he's committed to living in peace with the Jews.

The president and CIC should not be asking for more taxpayer money to give to the Palestinians. His request for same should be respectfully denied.

I would prefer to see the $83M put into a fund to source a group of well trained gentlemen whose mission is to pay late night visits to problematic imams throughout the middle east whose islamist sermons can be accessed at MEMRI.

Posted by Mark Z 2007-01-05 19:03|| 2007-01-05 19:03|| Front Page Top

#14
President Bush is asking Congress to provide $83 million for security forces loyal to Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, as the U.S. tries bolstering him for prospective peacemaking with Israel.

Bush has told Congress he would like Abbas' forces to receive the aid, which would be for training, uniforms, vehicles and other support, a senior U.S. official said Friday. The amount could be increased a few million, said the official, who spoke anonymously because he was not authorized to make announcements.

And they're not even trying to say it's for relief efforts or "the children" (who's got that TM thingie?) or anything. They're openly saying the money's for Abbas' security forces!

Training, vehicles, and other support my ass! It's going to go straight into some ragheaded Paleo assholes' pockets and there won't be a dime's worth of accounting or paper trail to see where it does actually go.

Use the $83M to start building the damned border fence - or raise some of those 10k worth of border patrol officers you promised way back a few years ago - or better yet, use that $83M to buy our border patrol their own training, vehicles, and other support!

That's taxpayer money, you moron (and I voted for you - TWICE!). It's not your money to piss away down some foreign rathole!

Gods, this kinda' shit just pisses me off!

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-01-05 20:57|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-01-05 20:57|| Front Page Top

#15 Why not buy yourself a clue, Bushy ?

Posted by wxjames 2007-01-05 21:04|| 2007-01-05 21:04|| Front Page Top

#16 I like Bush but he has a few blind spots, specifically illegal immigration and Palestine. I voted for him for the same reason I voted for Schwarzenegger: the alternative was too bleak to bear.

Posted by RWV 2007-01-05 21:42|| 2007-01-05 21:42|| Front Page Top

#17 Looks to me like Georgie boy hit a nerve, or tow this time.
And the "OK Dems, make yourself useful" comment was IMHO a snark-free from the heart comment. Allow me to second that. (Damn, I picked a fine day to quit sniffing glue.)

Posted by USN, ret. 2007-01-05 21:46|| 2007-01-05 21:46|| Front Page Top

#18 PIMF: tow=two

Posted by USN, ret. 2007-01-05 22:14|| 2007-01-05 22:14|| Front Page Top

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