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Post by josh on Jul 28, 2006 18:10:50 GMT -5
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19949384-1702,00.html US to fund Lebanese army From correspondents in Washington July 29, 2006 THE United States will allocate $US10 million ($13 million) dollars for the Lebanese army so that it can move into the border zone near Israel currently controlled by the Hezbollah militia, the State Department said overnight. The aid is meant to help Lebanon modernise its force by purchasing spare parts for armoured personnel carriers and other vehicles needed to patrol the zone, as well communications equipment, Tom Casey, a State Department spokesman said. Congress must still approve the assistance, which is aimed at helping Lebanon work with an international force for the zone backed Friday in Washington by US President George W. Bush and visiting British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Post by tonyholland on Jul 28, 2006 19:34:33 GMT -5
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19949384-1702,00.html US to fund Lebanese army From correspondents in Washington July 29, 2006 THE United States will allocate $US10 million ($13 million) dollars for the Lebanese army so that it can move into the border zone near Israel currently controlled by the Hezbollah militia, the State Department said overnight. The aid is meant to help Lebanon modernise its force by purchasing spare parts for armoured personnel carriers and other vehicles needed to patrol the zone, as well communications equipment, Tom Casey, a State Department spokesman said. Congress must still approve the assistance, which is aimed at helping Lebanon work with an international force for the zone backed Friday in Washington by US President George W. Bush and visiting British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Not sure what you mean here? The idea of funding the Lebanese army is to give them the ability to disarm the Hezbollah militia themselves. Time will tell if that really happens, but at this point, Lebanon is saying that they would do so, but don't have the resources to get it done. May backfire on us, (like funding the Taliban and Iraq in earlier years) but it's worth a shot.
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Post by josh on Jul 28, 2006 23:03:49 GMT -5
Hezbollah is apart of the Lebanese govenmeant, so a fund for lebanon is a fund for terror.
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Post by tonyholland on Jul 29, 2006 10:22:33 GMT -5
Hezbollah is apart of the Lebanese government, so a fund for Lebanon is a fund for terror. I see what your saying, but its kind of a stretch. There are also Christians in the Lebanese government, so would it also be true to say a fund for Lebanon is a fund for Christianity. Hezbollah is a part of the cabinet, but certainly not a majority. They currently hold 23 out of 128 seats in the Lebanese Parliament, and one seat in the cabinet (Energy and Water Minister). This is sometimes the drawback of a democratic system (though better than anything else out there) The people have every right to vote this group in, but the group does not have the right to maintain a separate militia. The majority of the Lebanese government and the people believe this (more so, as their country is being leveled) but have been unable to do much about it as the Hezbollah milita is/was larger than the actual Lebanese army. I don't know if this is going to work either, but I certainly wouldn't say that the US is funding terrorism.
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Post by HSTN2983 on Jul 29, 2006 20:54:09 GMT -5
christians and [some] jews worldwide are committing to this because it is advancing armageddon upon us. yay!
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