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U.S. Increases Aid to Syria, Now Totals $210 Million
Weekly Standard ^ | December 12, 2012 | Daniel Halper

Posted on 12/12/2012 6:39:50 PM PST by opentalk

The State Department announced today that it had increased aid to help with humanitarian situation in Syria. Today's announcement stated that an additional $14 million of aid would be given, pushing the grand total of aid to Syria to $210 million.

"Today, Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns announced the United States is providing nearly $14 million in additional humanitarian aid that

will provide nutrition support for children, as well as additional emergency medical and winterization supplies to families in need inside Syria," the State Department spokesman said in a statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at m.weeklystandard.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; debt; fundingalqaeda; fundingglobalist; nwo; syria; syriaaid; un
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1 posted on 12/12/2012 6:39:54 PM PST by opentalk
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To: opentalk

Our great grandchildren are extremely generous.


2 posted on 12/12/2012 6:42:45 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: opentalk

It’s “for the children”.


3 posted on 12/12/2012 6:46:28 PM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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To: opentalk
$210 million? How niggardly. Why not $2 billion from Imam Obama. It's only little piles of devaluing paper.
4 posted on 12/12/2012 6:49:02 PM PST by Truth29
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To: opentalk

It boggles the mind that we are sending money to people whose sole purpose in life is to destroy our civilization.


5 posted on 12/12/2012 6:50:55 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: opentalk

I wish the House had the guts to put a HUGE mouse trap like contraption in our cookie jar to break these Socialist’s fingers as they reach in to dole out more, and more of the money we are borrowing from foreign lands for them to be so generous with.


6 posted on 12/12/2012 6:55:42 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: BenLurkin

If it’s any consolation, “we” aren’t sending jack. It’s the criminals who have hijacked the government that doing the “giving”.


7 posted on 12/12/2012 6:56:55 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: opentalk

I’d like to know how the aid & money is being distributed


8 posted on 12/12/2012 7:02:02 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: opentalk

When the Federal apparatus in DC extorts 3 trillion bucks from the productive class, and spends 4 trillion, this is small potatoes.

It’s kind of like paying protection money to the ragheads in exchange for not attacking the US too much.


9 posted on 12/12/2012 7:05:40 PM PST by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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To: rockinqsranch

Anybody that thinks the House handles the purse strings is nuts.
Obama and his cronies have it to give away any time they like, they don’t need to ask anyone.

Where does this 13 million come from?
Obama just says it and it is done, the hell with the House.


10 posted on 12/12/2012 7:06:09 PM PST by Venturer
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Cutting foreign aid seems to be a taboo topic in the media and congress....false argument usually from both sides, increase our taxes or cut citizen entitlements,...

THE SCANDAL THAT IS FOREIGN AID (Oct 2012)

11 posted on 12/12/2012 7:08:19 PM PST by opentalk
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I could think of a whole crapload of other things that could be cut too without upseting things too much politically but that would require assuming they actually intend to cut anything.


12 posted on 12/12/2012 7:13:10 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Venturer

Good point, but we don’t know do we. Wondering if somebody could ask one of the few still on our side like maybe Jim DeMint while he is still there just how that money is getting into play without the House. Maybe Tom McClintock would know.


13 posted on 12/12/2012 7:13:22 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: rockinqsranch

The fact is Obama hands money over to this one and that one, and spends like a drunken Rotney King, and the HOUSE never says no, or they really don’t control the funds ——one or the other.


14 posted on 12/12/2012 7:43:48 PM PST by Venturer
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To: opentalk

How about all the black ops money we are spending? How about all the open budget military we are spending? How much money are we giving to Turkey to put Patriots on the border?

How much was the CIA spending to buy up arms in Libya and ship them to the terrorists?

I’m betting we’re talking at least 50 billion when it’s all said and done.


15 posted on 12/12/2012 8:09:53 PM PST by Dogbert41 (What now?)
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To: opentalk

How about all the black ops money we are spending? How about all the open budget military we are spending? How much money are we giving to Turkey to put Patriots on the border?

How much was the CIA spending to buy up arms in Libya and ship them to the terrorists?

I’m betting we’re talking at least 50 billion when it’s all said and done.


16 posted on 12/12/2012 8:09:58 PM PST by Dogbert41 (What now?)
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To: Dogbert41
We are funding an Obama/clinton/globalist me agenda they refuse to clarify, seems to not be in our best interest or make us more secure (imo)
17 posted on 12/12/2012 8:15:20 PM PST by opentalk
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To: opentalk

Did anybody really think we would force Syria to buy their own chemical weapons to slaughter their own people??


18 posted on 12/12/2012 8:16:17 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: nuconvert

That’s racist! How dare you question the actions of Dear Reader’s loyal cadres!


19 posted on 12/12/2012 8:26:54 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: nuconvert
I’d like to know how the aid & money is being distributed

The money will go to arms dealers who will distribute one AK-47 to any child over the age of 15 who can say "Allahu Akbar" and then they will take them to the party at the American Embassy and kill the Ambassador.

20 posted on 12/12/2012 9:11:54 PM PST by immadashell
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