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Thread ID: 5730 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2003-03-22
2003-03-22 17:23 | User Profile
From The Guardian, available online at: [url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,919545,00.html]http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/st...,919545,00.html[/url]
**Israeli loan deal claim irritates US **
Chris McGreal in Tel Aviv Saturday March 22, 2003 The Guardian
Israel has irritated the US by revealing private assurances from Condoleezza Rice to Benjamin Netanyahu that the White House has approved $10bn (ã6.4bn) in aid before it was formally announced in Washington.
In a phone conversation on Wednesday, Ms Rice, the US national security adviser, told Mr Netanyahu, Israel's finance minister, that the White House was willing to provide $9bn in loan guarantees to prop up Israel's sinking economy and another $1bn in military aid.
Mr Netanyahu announced the deal to the Israeli press.
But the US state department said a final decision has still not been made.
Richard Boucher, the state department spokesman, said: "The request has been made by the Israelis. The status today is the same as yesterday. We are looking at it. We are considering it."
Diplomatic sources the assurances, given hours before Mr Bush ordered the first attack on Iraq, were given by Ms Rice as part of Washington's attempts to persuade Israel to stay out of the conflict.
2003-03-22 21:24 | User Profile
Sheesh! First Sharon [url=http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=7480&pid=688]humps her leg,[/url] and now this. What's next, are they going to tell mammy to make the beds and clean the toilets? :lol:
2003-03-23 00:44 | User Profile
Originally posted by Recluse@Mar 22 2003, 15:24 ** Sheesh! First Sharon [url=http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=7480&pid=688]humps her leg,[/url] and now this. What's next, are they going to tell mammy to make the beds and clean the toilets? :lol: **
"Lawd, lawd! I don't know nuttin' 'bout birthin' no babies, much less anything about a ten billion dollar bribe to Israel!"
"Just fetch us some coffee, Condi, and shush up."
:lol:
2003-03-23 15:56 | User Profile
**the White House was willing to provide $9bn in loan guarantees to prop up Israel's sinking economy **
So Bush is going to help Israel's 'sinking economy' by taking from our tanking economy? And this will be of benefit to the American people? I sure hope Reagan gave some of those voodoo economics recipes to Bush.