Let's get this straight.... We Send Money to Israel which they

[WCGreen]

use to offset the cost of their military...

They buy stuff from out military contractors...

They use it to bomb Lebanon....

Then we send aid to Lebanon to rebuild the stuff that Israel bombed...

So we are basically picking up the cost of this war...

Sure, our Military Industrial Complex get's their palms greased, but the economic multiplier effect from military industries is about half of what it is from other companies....

So, let's face it folks, we are getting it in the ass coming and going...

Side Note, I wonder if Lebanon will be rebuilt before The Gulf Coast.... HMMMMMMMM!!!!

[Poll_Blind]

1. Pretty much. Stopping ALL foreign military aid is a good start. n/t

PB

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2. Plus we have AIPAC effecting our nation's policies and laws

because they lean on legislators to vote a certain way on certain Bills, which means -- as all lobbying and influence does -- they are getting the representation for OUR taxation.

It's outrageous.

On edit: I didn't see any AIPAC lobbyists floating on logs down in NOLA after Kartina... and those that were paid taxes, voted (they thought) for representation, and were still being ignored by their government.

TC

[WCGreen]

3. It's Monty Pythonish.....

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4. Yeah...

straight from The Ministry of Looney Ideas!

TC

[LA lady]

5. Maybe Israel should send to us

We send money to Israel and yet:

Mr Netanyahu predicts that within a decade Israel, with a population of about seven million, will be among the world’s ten wealthiest countries. is in the top 20 already.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,16849-1688958,00.html

[WCGreen]

6. That'll be the day....

"Finish your dinner, Menachem....

Don't you know there are starving American's in West Virginia...."