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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (12161)	2/15/2006 4:51:53 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) of 541604

The foreign aid budget in its entirety would only cover a few months of operations in Iraq. One of the great misconceptions pollsters have found is people believing that some huge % of the government budget goes to foreign aid. It is usually well under 2% of the total, including military aid programs, unless it has changed drastically in the last five years. Page 5 in this document gives you FY2005 numbers. Taking out actual operating funds for the State Department, the total given away is in the low $20 billion range. state.gov

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