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Tuesday, July 25, 2006
An Economic Analysis of the War Crimes in Lebanon
From www.juancole.com
From www.juancole.com
"In a sign that the war is going badly for Israel, US Secretary of State Condi Rice made a surprise visit to Beirut on Monday."
posted by James-Speaks # 6:46 PM 
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"She said she regretted the humanitarian situation (caused by America's ally with billions in American-supplied armaments), but the US is offering only $30 million in aid (billions of dollars of damage have been done to Lebanon by Israel, most of it unrelated to Hizbullah)."
Time for that little math helmet. Let's see, three million Lebanese times, oh, let's say a hunnert thousand for relocation expenses plus another hunnert for bribing the Honorable and Despicable Senator Inhofe to allow them to settle in Kansa, comes to.... that's 3e10^6 times 2e10^5, carry the zero, ah.
For the measly sum of 600 billion dollars, less than the war in Iraq, we could have bought the whole damn country (Lebanon, not Israel) and given it to Olmert as a nice Christmas present.