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To: bob who wrote (26927)	2/4/2002 7:34:07 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99280

Huhhh???? Defense aid??? What we spend on defense directly benefits both our own economy and our defense industry as well as our own self-serving interests. Same for any technology we give them for rebuilding. It directly benefits our own economy and people by employment and taxes to the companies that produce it. The aid that the US is disproportionally behind, is aid that the US does not see a direct benefit or has a self-serving interest on. That is why to the rest of the world we look arrogant and greedy. IMHO.

To: bob who wrote (26927)	2/4/2002 7:36:04 PM
From: Steve Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99280

Bob, US has a net gain from patrolling Iraq that surpasses the money spent on the first war against Iraq and the war in Afghanistan combined. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait pay dearly for US presence keeping Iraq in check.

To: bob who wrote (26927)	2/4/2002 9:51:51 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 99280

Is this the kind of aid you were talking about? Report: U.S. paid villagers over mistaken raid msnbc.com Three men walk away from a grave site near the town of Uruzgan, where villagers claim that U.S. special forces wrongly killed at least 18 men. MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS Feb. 4 — Afghan officials say the United States has conceded that a deadly raid in a southern Afghan village two weeks ago was a mistake and that families of those killed had been given compensation — in $100 bills — according to a report broadcast Monday.