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- From: arf@ddsw1.mcs.com (Jack Schmidling)
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- Subject: Re: RUSH LIMBAUGH'S SECRET NON-AGENDA
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.023949.26167@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 02:39:49 GMT
- References: <1992Jul25.171338.22917@ddsw1.mcs.com> <mL1koB8w165w@coriolis.UUCP>
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- In article <mL1koB8w165w@coriolis.UUCP> mitch@coriolis.UUCP (Mitch) writes:
- >arf@ddsw1.mcs.com (Jack Schmidling) writes:
- >
- >> Thank you for pointing out the obvious missing word. Israel received
- >> $5.5 billion last year out of a total foreign aid budget of $13.5 billion.
- >>
- >> The only reason the total budget is $13.5 billion is because in order to
- >> get Eqypt to Camp David we had to give them $1.5 billion and in order to
- >> get Israel to come, we had to guarnatee that Israel would always get more.
- >>
- >> I am not sure which is the stupider way of getting peace, starting wars
- >> or giving them money but sooner or later, we might notice the lack of
- >> peace in our own country.
- >>
- >
- >Of course, Egypt gets about $3 billion per year from the US, and got a
- >$6 billion bonus last year for not objecting to the Gulf War, but that's
- >probably just because they're puppets of the Zionist Conspiracy, right?
-
- It seems a automatic to bring up Egypt as it is to distort the number. The
- ;;number is $1.7 billion and not 3.
-