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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (25728)	8/1/2006 5:19:07 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541957

You didn't say how much you'd pay Hezbollah. In case you've forgotten, they're the ones who started this last round and they're the ones Israel is trying to rout out. You're paying everyone else off but didn't mention the principal in this current fracas. [I just misspelled fracas "fracass," which reminded me of another board I've been following lately, one connected with an eagle cam. All of a sudden words like "fracass" and "assisted feeding" and "carcass" starting coming out "donkey" It's hysterical. And really dumb. You'll find sentences like "Good thing someone provided an donkey feeding because that rabbit donkey in the nest from yesterday has been picked clean."]

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (25728)	8/1/2006 7:41:06 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541957

$800 billion in new aid isn't going to happen. That's more than the GDP of countries like Russia, South Korea, Brazil or India. Its a lot more than the US defense budget and more than we pay for Social Security. Its more than the entire UK budget for 2002, and over 5 times the EU's 2006 budget. Also how does giving money to the PA, the Lebanese government, Israel and Iraq, cause Hezbollah to stop causing trouble, or cause Syria and Iran to stop funding and arming Hezbollah? If you give the Iraqi government $400bil how does that stop the war in Iraq?