Posted on 09/24/2009 4:54:42 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (CBS) The Obama Administration plans to give $400,000 in funding to a Libyan charity run by the Gadhafi family, and U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) wants the grant withdrawn.
The money would be divided between two foundations run by the family of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi. A $200,000 share is set to go to the Gadhafi Development Foundation, which is run by Gadhafi's son, Saif, and another $200,000 are to go to Wa Attassimou, an organization run by Muammar Gadhafi's daughter, Aisha.
Kirk says the grants should be withdrawn in light of the recent return to Libya of Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdel Baset Megrahi. The terminally ill prisoner was released from in Scotland on compassionate grounds, and got a hero's welcome from Muammar Gadhafi and other Libyans upon his return.
Saif Gadhafi was involved in negotiating for Megrahi's release, and accompanied him back to Libya.
"Just weeks after the Gadhafi family celebrated the return of a terrorist responsible for the murders of 189 Americans, the U.S. taxpayer should not be asked to reward them with $400,000," Kirk wrote to the president. "For the sake of the victims' families who have endured so much pain these last few weeks, I ask you to withdraw your Administration's request."
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UPDATE
—U.S. rethinks plans to give Libya $2.5 million in aid—
Mark Levin touched on this outrageous waste of our $’s yesterday evening.
So is this our reward to Krazy Kadfi for having a hero’s welcome for the mass Islamofascist Killer, who put a bomb on a plane and killed innocent people?
These countries would prefer we were all dead, but they’ll take our money. We are trillions in debt, but hey lets just keep dishing it out. Our children will have no problem in paying back this money.
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Obscene, right?! GRRRRRRRR...
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Who votes on this crap??? Are these bills that we don’t see? Does the federal reserve decide to pass this out??? Who does this?? I am seriously in the dark about all this giving our money away!
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These are the sort of things that get buried in funding bills - like the Porkulus...who knows which of the Obama pork barrel bills it was in??
I don’t even trust these people - when they tell us they will defund ACORN/COI do we know that will actually happen?? Then they turn around and say they won’t post the Death Reform bill on the internet for just a scant 72 hours - WE KNOW WHERE THESE LIARS LIVE ON THE ISSUES. THEY WANT TO DO THIS TO US, WHILE WE’RE NOT WATCHING.
BUT WE’RE WATCHING - YOU MAROONS...WE’RE AWAKE AND WE’RE COMING FOR THE MEDIA NEXT...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2348068/posts
November’s a comin’...and 11/2010 after that...better be lookin’ into a storage unit, you outta control yahoos...we’re comin’ after ya...
Obama to Kirk: (in a Scottish Accent) “I’m a community organizer, not a miracle worker. I can cut some funding but It’ll take three hours and not a wee bit less.”
Stop all foreign aid. Re-vote every year.
Obummer’s lost me before the election but I gave him a chance. He lost me quickly with sending $400,000,000.00 to overseas unPlanned Parenthood in Zimbabwe I believe. All this is hurting my poor little beanie.
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