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Old 07-31-2006, 09:29 PM
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Originally Posted by boldruler
I am all for supporting Israel, just not with my money. Do they not have their own money? Please explain to me what the US gets out of supporting Israel. And for the record, we don't support Israel because we are good people, we support them because their lobby, the lobby of a foreign country, has bought into our government, no different than tobacco, alcohol, guns lobby, etc.
well how else do you support a country than with money???
where's your outrage for all the other countries we send money to? did you know that til 9/11 afghanistan was our #1 recipient of u.s. aid? fat lot of good that did us, huh? what about most favored nation trading status granted to china? does that burn your butt? or is it just israel that ticks you off? what about funding public schools? you don't have kids do you? what about interstates? do you drive on them all? i mean, why does hawaii have an interstate? what a waste of my money...
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