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Apologies if this has already been covered....
If true, this is an atrocity committed by BHO:
After all, one of BHO's tactics is slamming and blaming the Bush administration all the time.
Just sayin'.
Mike's America, who posted at Flopping Aces on the above article from Newsmax says:
- U.s. Taxpayers Are Now Funding Both Sides Of The Middle East’s Arms Race
Eli Lake, Bloomberg The U.S. is deliberately subsidizing defense spending for allies like Egypt and Israel. Now the U.S. is inadvertently paying for some of Iran’s military expenditures as well. It all starts with $1.7 billion the U.S. Treasury wired...
- Graham Threatens To Cut Funds To Un If Obama Bypasses Congress On Iran Sanctions
From Fox: South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is throwing down the gauntlet, warning the White House he’ll move to cut funding to the United Nations if the administration turns to the international body to lift sanctions on Iran as part of a nuclear...
- Just Pissing It Away
Newsmax: U.S. Spent $200M on Egypt Election The Obama administration spent some $200 million on democracy building in the lead-up to the elections this week in Egypt. But with 65 percent of the vote going to Islamist candidates, it doesn’t appear the...
- Obama Offers Non-opinion On Non-story
Newsmax: Obama Offers Tepid Support for Iran Protests Monday, June 15, 2009 9:38 PM By: Tim Collie As protests and riots involving hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flared in Tehran Monday, President Barack Obama found his Iran policy under siege....
- Email From Iran
Atlas Shrugs received the following email from Iran Re: Free Iran Hello atlasshrugs: I am e man 31 Y/O living in Iran ([deleted-Atlas] north east of iran) I am very happy that the world today know fact about iran and their peoples. We are Iranian. We...
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Obama Cut Funding For Freedom Activists In Iran?
Apologies if this has already been covered....
If true, this is an atrocity committed by BHO:
Obama Erases Pro-Democracy Money for IranI wonder....Could it be that BHO is concerned that speaking out for the freedom activists in Iran might lead to people understanding that GWB had actually tried to help those Iranians seek more freedoms?
Friday, June 19, 2009 2:40 PM
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
Even as Ayatollah Khamenei blasted the United States for fomenting unrest in a defiant Friday prayer address in Tehran, President Obama has kept silent, focusing instead on domestic policy.
Obama spent more time with TV personality Stephen Colbert, taping a segment for a comedy show, than he did addressing the turmoil in Iran this week.
Newsmax has learned that the Obama administration also has zeroed out funding for pro-democracy programs inside Iran from the State Department budget for fiscal 2010, just as protests in Iran are ramping up.
Funding for pro-democracy programs began in 2004, when Congress earmarked $1.5 million of the State Department budget for educational, humanitarian, and non-governmental organizations and individuals inside Iran to support the advancement of democracy and human rights in Iran.
The funding ramped up dramatically two years later, when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice requested $75 million for pro-democracy programs. More than half of the $66.1 million Congress finally appropriated went to expand U.S. government-funded Persian language broadcasting services at Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
But no money has been earmarked for such programs in the administration's fiscal 2010 foreign operations budget request. Congressional sources told Newsmax they doubted that a Democrat-controlled Congress would add it when the budget comes before a committee next week.
Controversy has surrounded the programs from the start, with pro-regime lobbying groups, such as the National Iranian-American Council urging the State Department to cancel the funding....
After all, one of BHO's tactics is slamming and blaming the Bush administration all the time.
Just sayin'.
Mike's America, who posted at Flopping Aces on the above article from Newsmax says:
Need I remind readers that Obama recently pledged $900 million in assistance to Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip?
It would be as if President Reagan had terminated support to democracy activists behind the Iron Curtain in the 1980’s and handed it over to the secret police who were enslaving the nations of Eastern Europe.
- U.s. Taxpayers Are Now Funding Both Sides Of The Middle East’s Arms Race
Eli Lake, Bloomberg The U.S. is deliberately subsidizing defense spending for allies like Egypt and Israel. Now the U.S. is inadvertently paying for some of Iran’s military expenditures as well. It all starts with $1.7 billion the U.S. Treasury wired...
- Graham Threatens To Cut Funds To Un If Obama Bypasses Congress On Iran Sanctions
From Fox: South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is throwing down the gauntlet, warning the White House he’ll move to cut funding to the United Nations if the administration turns to the international body to lift sanctions on Iran as part of a nuclear...
- Just Pissing It Away
Newsmax: U.S. Spent $200M on Egypt Election The Obama administration spent some $200 million on democracy building in the lead-up to the elections this week in Egypt. But with 65 percent of the vote going to Islamist candidates, it doesn’t appear the...
- Obama Offers Non-opinion On Non-story
Newsmax: Obama Offers Tepid Support for Iran Protests Monday, June 15, 2009 9:38 PM By: Tim Collie As protests and riots involving hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flared in Tehran Monday, President Barack Obama found his Iran policy under siege....
- Email From Iran
Atlas Shrugs received the following email from Iran Re: Free Iran Hello atlasshrugs: I am e man 31 Y/O living in Iran ([deleted-Atlas] north east of iran) I am very happy that the world today know fact about iran and their peoples. We are Iranian. We...