More aid? They kill our diplomats and burn our embassies around the world and we send them more aid? You have got to be kidding!!! This makes no sense at all. Cut off the aid, even for a short period of time. I realize they want us to believe a small group of radical muslims attacked us.....but if we make an example of them, rather than reward them, perhaps they will do more to police the actions of the radical muslims living in their country!!!! What are the consequences for these countries? Or this administration for helping them after we have been attacked?

Almost $3 billion dollars for aid to Egypt alone when you include military support.....Which we have to borrow in order to assist the other countries! Now we are paying interest on trillions of dollars, maybe we should not spend what we don't have...but what makes it worse is to spend it on other countries!!!!

How do we, the populace of the U.S. tell our government 'No' ---- no more for a while?? We need the money HERE. Continued foreign aid to countries that attack us makes me so angry!

Simple. Cut all aid and keep the money here where Americans need it. Why is this a hard concept?

This includes Pakistan.

That's almost $2 BILLION we are giving to these two countries that don't like us. Amazing. And to add insult to injury when we give $2 BILLION to these two countries that don't like us we are BORROWING it!!

That is like a neighbor that flips you off every morning and let's their dog "visit" your yard every afternoon you are paying for his paper every morning and charging it to your credit card which you can't pay off every month because you are broke.

Does that make "walking around sense" to ANYBODY?!?!?

Irish: Yes the conversation would go something like that but Obama wouldn't let that happen - he would make sure he had his teleprompter. Oh, I see, Obama DID forget his teleprompter - that was the reason for the stuttering in his first response............... GOT IT!!

ProBusiness,

Just my attempt at a little humor throughout this disaster. The sad thing is that the conversation would probably go just like that. I agree with you on your other posts. The last thing we need for America right now is another war but when you have people killing Americans and storming our embassys all over the world we have to do a little more than just wag our finger and condem them. There is a reason why China and Russia have both said they would rather have Obama in the White House over Romney. This is a good example. Wasnt it just a few weeks ago that Russia had fighter jets buzzing American air space near Alaska and Obama was okay with that?

This was no ad-hoc,unplanned attack...You don't show up with machine guns, RPG's,crew served heavy machine guns,and hand grenades,at a protest about a "movie" that's been out for quite a while.....just coincidently on the anniversary of a muslim celebration.... 9/11,..This was planned,and executed by the same muslim brotherhood that the prez and hillery endorsed,and said we needed to help;'to aviod anymore bloodshed..'...back in the arab spring days.......yeah, that worked well......Keeping nearly $2 Billion a year here,on THIS side of the water,wouldn't do much for the debt,..but could do more good to helping CIVILIZED poor people HERE instead..............or infrastructure,or education,or health programs,or police,and fire depts...,....OR pay 5 minutes interest on what we owe China................U.S.Army Disabled Veteran

I think we should cut off all foreign aid, period. We are currently operating at a deficit and we have to borrow money to operate the government at the current level. The aid we give doesn't make them like us, so cut it off!!! Why borrow money and give it away?

Gee, where are all of the comments from the usual loud mouthed libs? I guess we finally have an issue, i.e. giving money to people who want to kill us, that simply can't be spun or defended!

"To put that number in perspective, the federal government spends about $1.5 billion a day on Medicare."

The only "perspective" that puts on it is how incredibly wasteful our government is and only further highlights why foreign countries cannot continue to be subsidized with U.S. tax dollars while America is being bled dry.

Remember this propaganda gem from MSNBC this spring?

Could sun-soaked Libya be the Mediterranean's next tourism hot spot?

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/03/14/10653000-could-sun-soaked-libya-be-the-mediterraneans-next-tourism-hot-spot?lite

Hey kids.... guess where we're going.

Cut all aid, that includes Israel. These people have been fighting for thousands of years, they enjoy it. Screw them all.

Alex cali wuusss, this from a Jersey dude. Don't spout off, when you don't know what your talking about. First you have to be able to add!!

Obama and Clinton wanting to give these MURDERS yet more money. I think Washington has lost it's direction and forgot which country is ours. We don't want anything to do with these people Washington. We don't want Mexico moving into our country. Please stay focused, America is where we are, America is who you were chosen to govern. Give it a try. Romney for President. Hell no, NO MORE MONEY TO THE MIDDLE EAST.

I've got bad news fort those who think you can buy Islamists friendship !

on a daily basis.

Those who are friendly to the West are afraid of the extremists that we will never buy off ! They hate us & our culture . They hate Muslims who aren't Islamic enough. They kill each other daily !

Do you recall watching the Tunisian who had his head cut off for converting to Christianity !

Obama is kidding himself & shows he has no clue about Islamics !

Google the film "My Brother the Islamist"

A story about a Brit who converted to Islam & see the rage & hate he & others have towards society !

this guy will never learn, just saying.

We should send them some of our rusting old nukes instead - via air. They're already long paid for, why let them go to waste?

CNN headline last night: "ROMNEY SPOKE TOO SOON"

Laura Ingraham is a Die Hard Conservative and she said "If you can't beat Barack Obama with this record, then shut down the party. Shut it down. Start new, with new people."

"I don't know if Mitt Romney can beat him," Ingraham said on ABC's "This Week," recalling a conversation she had with prominent conservatives.

Cutting foreign aid is an incredibly short-sighted response to this series of incidences.

We have not been attacked by any nation. The demonstrators represent a tiny fraction of the populations of their respective countries (Egypt has 82 million people) and the violent demonstrators represent a fraction of that small section. Yet poster after poster on this thread claim we should determine US foreign aid based on the actions of at best a few thousand individuals.

At +/- $50 billion annually, US foreign aid is roughly 1/40th the cost of US involvement in the Iraq War (assuming $2 trillion direct and indirect costs). To the extent it makes wars like that one less likely, US foreign aid seems like a sound investment.

How much has 9-11 cost the U.S. tax payer should be the question at hand. Second question should be why we send aid to anyone when 'We the people" are in such dire need of help? We sure need to look at things a little closer before we throw money around to people who hate us.

these comments are full up crazy, Obama didnt fund the Muslim Brotherhood and he's got nothing to do with them... this has been repeatedly proven to be a lie....

when you guys pull this squawking like a bunch of hens crapola you make yourselves look like a bunch of cheap scammers and you make our party look like a bunch of liars (which us mainstream republicans are not) and most of all you make it tougher for Romney to get into office..... great job azzhats....

Washington is great about giving our money to other countries. I just wonder how much of THEIR own personal money they have donated. Not one penny, that's how much.

How about having a new rule - kinda of like we SHOULD have for a lot of welfare recipeints. If you want it, you have to earn it. Maybe that is a concept too difficult to grasp for the professional polititian?!?!?

Some say "just cut off all the foreign aid" we provide. I see that would include the $1.5 billion to Egypt, but would that also include the $3.1 billion we give to Israel?

You know, the US doesn't give aid to countries because the US are the good guys and that is the right thing to do, there is an agenda to it. All of it even though in many cases, if not all cases, the agenda is not clear at all.

Pacific

You have been attacked at home !

You are being attacked from within !

The US should immediately stop all aid to Muslim countries that do not show open support !

Pull out of the racist UN & NATO which the US pays 3/4 of their expenses. Pull all troops out of Afghanistan .Iraq & any other hostile territory. Send troops to Israel to bolster their military might to ward off any attacks on our ally ! & bolster our security at home !

The ME tyranny is no where close to being solved. They have been in conflict since Mohammad came down from the mountain.

Stop kidding yourselves !

We have plenty of money... Bernanke just turned on the printing presses with QE3 and why NOT....QE1 & QE2 worked so well!

The US was just downgraded again today with the specific blame on the latest QE!

Yep indeed cut the aid to Egypt... I'm sure you all know it is nothing more then a bribe for the military to keep peace with Israel. But yea go ahead and screw Israel, let's keep it going and cut more foreign aid... how bout to Israel? It will help start what the Christians want, a Holy war... a war they will want to call Armageddon. They are so blinded by the light they have to squint through their sphincter!

Obama does support the Muslim Brotherhood. He in fact paved the way for ME unrest by leading NATO to overthrow the regimes ! No one will thank you for that !

Even the late Mr Stevens supported the rebel militants !

Right now US trains MB military .

Sure there are peace loving Muslims but the militants rule !

Hillary is "stunned" that these attacks have happened.

You see, Obama and company thinks that their polices will make them our "friends". So, they ignored 48 hours advance notice from intelligence reports indicating an attack was imminent. They also ignored 7 days of talk about something like this in arabic newpapers.

They are "stunned" because they are trusting the wrong people.

Obama = James Earl Carter III

An Egyptian man living in America makes an anti-Islam movie and releases it. Very few Americans even knew about this movie, but in Egypt, Libya and the rest of the Muslim world, this movie goes viral and suddenly, all of these people come out of no where to storm US embassies, burning and murdering and we're supposed to believe that this wasn't all planned out? If it looks like a duck, it probably is a duck!

It's more appropriate to give aid for education, health, etc. than to declare war (like Bush did in Iraq), spend trillions and trillions destroying and killing, then billions more to rebuild.

And their thanks - kidnap, rape, murder, and dragging through the streets!

They must pass out stupid pills in our education ship. The more you take, the higher the degree!

I see Obama and Clinton being attacked for supporting Egypt as if it were their idea, when it has been America's policy for many years and the Bush administration adamantly defended its annual outlay of nearly $2 billion in military and economic aid to Egypt. The criticism of that policy is not new, either. I think that by stating that Egypt is not our ally, however, Obama is putting Egypt on notice that he is rethinking that policy in the light of current events.

Error Bush and Rice were given intelligence reports by George Tenet and Richard A. Clarke months before 9/11 that there was terrorist activity and impending attacks planned but Bush and Rice did nothing with the information, no follow up, nothing.

OK, raise your hand if you actually believed that whole "there will be no boots on the ground" BS coming from the Obama administration last spring. Oh look, it's all the liberals. Guess what...there are boots on the ground.

Kimb

No one is saying cut aid to Egypt as long as they honor the Camp David accord !

However Morsi has already stated he would not honor it ! He said he would make E Jerusalem a Muslim Capital !

Muslim extremist s see the US as weak & easy to play ! When Morsi took over the military , Israel is very fragile to a Muslim attack.

Copts are being attacked & killed in Egypt regularly .

You are just kidding yourself !

Mike, am I raising my hand? Am I? What am I doing? Can you see me? How many fingers am I holding up?

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever." ~George Orwell, 1984

Hmm Does This Amount count Obama's Secret Aid To Al-Qaeda? Does It Count The Billions We Spent To Get Rid Of Gaddafi For Al-Qaeda?

Why Are We Disregarding The US Funds Back Door Barry Slipped To Al-Qaeda In Syria Trying To Remove Assad?

Well I am Sure POMPUS Obama Thinks Every Penny Is Worth The Free MACHO Pictures Of Him Welcoming Home Billarys Flunkies Instead Of Honoring Our Dead Soldiers!

Two (More) US service members killed at Afghan camp ......(I Don't Care About No Bloody British Royalty).... http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/14/13868050-two-us-service-members-killed-at-afghan-camp-where-prince-harry-is-based?lite

Anyone want to bet that when these American Kids Come Home....Odumba Will Be Nowhere To Be Found?

I just love how these Democrats like Who Try To Intellectualize A Way Out Of A Criminal Mistake On Obama's Part Of Getting Caught Secretly Supporting Al-Qaeda Instead Of Just Accepting His Failures In Libya And Resigning Honorably Like Nixon!

It Is Amazing How Nonsensical Pompous and Intellectually Arrogant Some Of These Democratic Posters Are! They Just Want To Wallow In Their Evil Masters Hoof Tracks!

America....Refuse To Reward Incumbent FAILURE Refuse To Re-Elect ANY Of These Demo/Repub Wall Street CORRUPTED Political Minions

"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness." ~ George Orwell, 1984

roipolloi, Obama and his State Department have looked like the Keystone Cops. Obama says we do consider Jerusalem to be the capitol of Israel...the State Department says we do NOT consider Jerusalem to be the capitol of Israel. Obama says the Egyptians are not our allies...the State Department says the Egyptians ARE our allies. Obama distances the White House from our Egyptian Embassy's initial apology for the 6 month old youtube short film...at 8 PM Hilary and the State Department are still tweeting similar apologies.

There is a term that I can't put on here that describes Obama and his State Department. That term starts with the word "cluster".

FamousAmos, as a liberal you reserve the right to see unicorns, marshmallow clouds and glitter rainbows and I on the other hand reserve the right to see you through your device screen.

The politicians keep saying that it is just a small band of moslems that are acting like animals and the rest are civilized. It looks like it is the other way around to me. It doesn't take much to set these people off.

They attack and kill our people and this )_(*^(*&^% wants to send them our money????? Providing aid to the countries that allowed our Embassies to be attacked is aid and comfort to the enemy. They can either control the creatures over there or kiss any aid goodbye and if Obama was any kind of President he would be saying so instead of wanting to give them money. Who the H's side is he on???

Egypt was supportive under Mubarak & signed the Israelis peace accord at Camp David !

Egypt was paid 1.8 billion to keep the peace with the Israelis & got the land back lost in the 67 war !

Egypt has been amassing troops at the Israelis border. I would put troops into Israel after pulling out of the hostile countries to show strength & hopefully ward off any attempts to attack Israel !!

The US has several navy ships in the Gulf & Iran has threatened to close the Straights of Hormouth & attack Israel.

Either one could start a major conflict dragging us into combat !

I do blame Obama for the current situation !

Now we are paying interest on trillions of dollars, maybe we should not spend what we don't have...but what makes it worse is to spend it on other countries!!!!

Fine, but that goes for Israel, too. Think you can get the GOP to go along with that?

ramona-418376

Someone fed you a load of crap. It was CLINTON'S administration that was warned of possible attacks using airplanes which he ignored, as he ignored other intelligence pointing to the same thing so take that Bush did it crap and shove it. He was not in office when the warnings were received and ignored. He was there when the strike happened, a strike that took 4 - 5 Clinton years to plan and train for. Clinton did nothing just like his wife is doing nothing now but appologizing to the creatures that killed our people. Bush did something, Reagan bombed Gadafi into submission when he killed our people so stop the lies about who is the wimps and who isn't. Your appologizer in Chief just want to ask the thugs in the Middle East "can't we all just get along?"

"Fine, but that goes for Israel, too. Think you can get the GOP to go along with that?" - RealAmericansFirst

Most of us Libertarians sure would.

Duplicate comment.

oipolloi

Talk about spinning the truth. Yes Bush sent aid to Egypt when thier ruler was keeping the peace accord and keeping the madmen under control. That was before you savior Obama touted and aided Arab Spring which is resulting in all that is now happening in the Middle East so shove the Bush did it crap, he would not be sending one more penny to these animals now.

The state run Egyptian TV governed by the Muslim brotherhood through Egypt's extremist hardliner President Mohammed Morsi originally promoted the YouTube video as a mechanism to incite riots, terror and destruction of American interests. Once the fire was ignited the Muslim brotherhood whose ranks include al-Qaeda, Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist organizations followed up by calling for nationwide protests "to denounce offences to religion and to the Prophet."

These plans were part of joint Muslim hardliner strategy firmed up and finalized during Morsi's recent visit to Tehran and aided by a perceived weakness in leadership within the United States. Islamic hardliners have concluded Obama projects a position of weakness as evidenced by his now infamous "apology tour" and that he is currently so focused reelection he is even unwilling to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak. To the Muslim world, Obama’s actions present a perceived platform of weakness enticing radicals to unleash their Pandora’s box of protests as a slap in the face to Obama and to American interests around the world.

Americans posting comments in response to these events seem totally unaware that the vast majority of Imams and clerics of Islam have declared a holy jihad [Holy war] against the infidels of the world and, that by killing an infidel, (which is a command to all Muslims) they are assured of a place in heaven. The definition of an infidel is a 'non-believer?' In the event some may fail to understand the significance of that Islamic command, all followers of Allah have been commanded to kill everyone who is not of their faith so they can have a place in heaven. In effect they have been commanded to kill everyone in this chat who is not a Muslim.

I have a real problem trying to imagine Pope John Paul commanding all Catholics to kill those not of your faith or Dr.Chas. Stanley ordering all Protestants to do the same in order to guarantee themselves a place in heaven!'

I also have a problem funding Islamic leaders who are telling their followers to kill me!

Islam's Sharia Law which promotes a prime directive found in the Koran ordering followers to: "Seek out, find and kill all non-believers." Muslims are overtaking and destroying countries like France, Holland, Belgium, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom. It is this very Sharia Law that dictates beheading, female genital mutilation, stoning of women for adultery, honor killings, forced and arranged marriages, women cannot leave their house without a family male escort, separated swim times at pools for males and females and complete subjugation of women by men.Homosexuals are to be killed. Abortion is haram and not allowed in Islam,but Muslim are allowed to kill their daughter if she refuses to marry the man they had chosen for her. Muslims hold to a belief that that it is permissible to steal money and property from non-Muslims in order to distribute it, but if they steal from each other the offender's hands are to be cut off.

The challenges for America are obvious. Unfortunately, current White house leadership seems determined to marginalize America at any cost.

Whether you are a grandparent, parent or young adult, the upcoming election portends unprecedented implications for the future of America. It would be a great injustice for any American to go to the polls this fall without being fully informed!

Those who diligently seek the truth will find compelling evidence Barack Hussein Obama II is not a true American Democrat, but rather a closet Marxist whose dangerous anti-American and anti-colonialism agenda has metastasized into a pathological cancer on our society.

America has hope, but only if clear thinking Americans take action to unseat him and allow America to govern from a position of strength offered by moral integrity, economic prosperity, and job opportunities not found in the socialist hell into which our current leadership is driving us.

charlie451

I don't know how I'm kidding myself... I said it was a bribe to the military not to Morsi. I do agree with your assessment of Morsi and unfortunate as it is he leads the military. I know he fired a lot of brass but does he have complete control? All that happened a month ago and I'm sure people are trying to figure how much power he has. As far as the Egyptian Copts they were behind the financing of the movie causing the protests. I'm afraid as time goes by and the radicals get wind of that info you will see the killing increase.

busboy-303352 "I don't think we have any money to pay for anything , do we?"

No, but Obama will borrow it from the Chinese.

Ramona - actually the 9/11 intell was given to Clinton and he didn't do a thing with it. I think the statement was to leave it for the next guy to deal with.

alex cali

Looks like you are the lone ranger posting from Obama's narwhale room tonight. Save it, no one is buying the usual crap.

kimb54.1

Why would you make up a lie about the Egyptian copt's just to incite more irrational behavior by the brainwashed masses. Are you posting for the terrorists?

Shaking

from CNN

A staffer on the film, which has provoked anti-American protests and violence across the Muslim world, said he believed that the filmmaker is a Coptic Christian, information that has sent shock waves through the Coptic community.The staffer said the filmmaker told him he'd been to Alexandria, Egypt, to raise money for the film, suggesting that Copts were helping finance it. Media in Egypt, where Copt-Muslim relations are tense, jumped on the news

Seems I didn't make that up!

You can't buy peace. That is what Obama has thought all along.

That's why he spent billions of dollars in aid to these countries, all the while making these countries stronger to attack you. When will he learn that in the world, muslims hate christians no matter how good we are to them.

This is what Israel has been trying to tell Obama as well. No matter how much you concede to them, they still mock you. The only thing is..... imagine Israel being surrounded on all sides by these whackos. Then imagine Obama cutting your defense aid by two- thirds.

What was he thinking?

TIME TO VOTE OBAMA OUT IN 2012.

Egypt, to raise money for the film, suggesting that Copts were helping finance it. Media in Egypt, where Copt-Muslim relations are tense, jumped on the news.

Goes to show you that in Egypt all their talk about freedom is nothing but crap. Like we have always said before, christians are NOT allowed to speak out freely at those places and the democrats don't seem to realize that.

In other news:

The Obama Administration is finalizing an aid package to Egypt that includes forgiving approximately $1 billion of Egypt’s debt to the United States. This is in addition to about $1.5 billion in annual U.S. foreign aid. However, the lax reaction of Egypt’s new Islamist government to the violent demonstrations at the U.S. embassy in Cairo has raised questions about the motivations of Egypt’s new Islamist leaders. Congress should monitor the Administration’s ongoing aid negotiations with Cairo and ensure that conditions are attached to any forthcoming aid that will advance U.S. national interests.

Are you kidding me! OBAMA WANTED TO FORGIVE THEIR DEBT.

Just recently came out today.

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, a longtime member of the anti-Western Muslim Brotherhood, has set Egypt on a troubling new foreign policy course since coming to power in June. His government has distanced itself from Washington while cozying up to China, improving relations with Iran, and violating its peace treaty with Israel. Morsi’s first trip outside the Middle East was to China. He embraced Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at an Islamic summit in Saudi Arabia and became the first Egyptian leader to visit Iran since the 1979 revolution.

Morsi’s government has also undermined Egypt’s 1979 peace treaty with Israel. After an August 5 terrorist attack by Islamist militants killed 16 Egyptian border guards in the Sinai, Cairo deployed tanks close to the Israeli border, a violation of the U.S.-brokered treaty.[1] Under the guise of fighting terrorism, Morsi will use the Sinai campaign to boost his political position at home, thumb his nose at Israel, and escalate Egypt’s cooperation with Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood that controls Gaza and remains adamantly committed to Israel’s destruction. He has already invited Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh to Cairo and has eased border restrictions between Gaza and Egypt.

The recent attacks on the U.S. embassy in Cairo have deepened American concerns about Egypt’s new government. Despite advance warning about plans by ultra-radical Islamists to mount a protest demonstration on September 11, Egyptian security forces were suspiciously lax in restraining the crowd, which invaded the embassy grounds, tore down the American flag, and replaced it with a flag that resembled al-Qaeda’s black banner.

The "government" does not "spend" $1.5 million a day on Medicare. The crooks in Congress graciously allocate some of OUR tax dollars to the American people in the form of Medicare and bitch, piss, and moan about every cent.

Throw them all in the street and elect people who will use taxpayer money here at home instead of giving it to people who hate our guts. Not that those people ever see any of it. If there is anyone more corrupt than American politicians it's Middle East politicians.

We have veterans that have given their limbs and are permanently scarred that could use a helping hand,

along with the widows and children who have lost their love ones.

There are commercials on TV asking for support and yet we are giving money to the nations that caused a

lot of these hardships on our veterans? Nations that hate us, burn our flags, chant hate and would gladly kill

us without shedding a tear. The government is telling us the money is better served going to these nations

then our american heros at home? This is F**ked up!

THIS IS SO WRONG!

Might be time for a full accounting. Let us (We the People) see who our government is supporting in these foreign countries with all of this taxpayer money! I would expect to see those funds put to good use. Let's see who is on the take!

Our government surely has a laundry list of items that's in there best interest. A new clause needs to be added... Thou Shalt Not assist or condone violence against us for the penalty is forfeiture of funds. To continue to receive funds a full accounting shall be required.

well, foreign aid is only about 1% of the total federal budget, money well spent to make others feel good about us - it's an investment,

To make the savages in these fifth century ratholes feel good about us?? Really? If you truly believe any of this krap you posted, then you seriously need a mental enema.

It's about giving them money to buy from us. It is a means of economic dominance. But regrettably it hurts everyone of us but the top.

I am sure you can gather a perception that disagrees with me but I know it's about the bottom line.

When I borrow money I have to pay interest.

GDP

Oh hell no. Not one more penny, which we don't have, should be given to any country that allows these atrocities to occur to American citizens. My ATM is empty. Nothing more to raid here, Mr. Obama. Oh, wait, you will soon have plenty more cash to give away, just as soon as your OBAMACARE TAX kicks in. I'm sure you are so giddy and giggling in anticipation of more free taxpayer money to abuse. You don't know squat about domestic or foreign policy, but you are a true democrat! Tax and spend! Yeah, cause it's working out so well for us!

Vote NoBama! No more 44!

Not your ATM,

Funny! Electoral college is here to stay.

Pre WWII would we of given our extra food away for free or used it to lower the price within our borders?

I am not per say a nationalist but feel we need more nationalism.

obama supported islamistis , look what they did now

The Arabic language website known as Lebanon News (Tayar.org) has just reported the horrific claim that the heavily armed mob responsible for the murder of U.S. Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, 52, actually raped him before he was killed.

The Google Translation of the report follows:

-"The U.S. ambassador to Libya was raped sexually before killing by gunmen who stormed the embassy building in Benghazi last night to protest against the film is offensive to the Prophet Muhammad"

-"The sources told AFP said that 'Ambassador was killed and representation of his body in a manner similar to what happened with Gaddafi, such as murder.'"

Ambassador Stevens was killed on Tuesday along with three other embassy staff as a group of terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate office in Benghazi, where Stevens was hold up.

The mob fired countless gunshots and rocket propelled grenades at the U.S. compound, eventually setting the consulate ablaze.

Also on Tuesday, a violent mob scaled the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, replacing the U.S. flag with that of al Queda's.

Over his career, Stevens served two diplomatic tours in Libya, and was confirmed as ambassador to that country by the Senate in May.

Until Tuesday, only five U.S. ambassadors have been killed in the line of duty, according to the U.S. State Department.

Pr,

Send ur children then. After they retaliate then u can have ur children send their children.

I suppose we should drop freedom so we can stop all the mass murder here in the states.

I think we need more intelligent voices and less left and right extremists but after all it is a republican and democrat election season.

It isn't about representatives so pick a party

Islamists are supported here in the states under the same living document that supports everyone in the sates.

It is called the Constitution.

You scare me. The abundance of ignorance is astonishing to me.

These Condom escapees would not be here if arab Women were allowed to practice birth control many years ago. And And! AND!!! I just found out that mohammed married a six (6)YO very helpless little girl and "consummated the marraige" when she turned NINE YEARS OLD to Top it All Off!! Didn't know that ole' moh' was a dyed in the wool PEDAPHILE, with these hand holding male WhackJobs, No Surprise.
And!!, these assorted perverts and pedaphiles are SOOO self righteous; TIME To Clean Up their own BackYard First; See I was right!!!! Just think if, 30 years ago, all those "Care" sacks loaded onto the boats were filled with condoms instead of food....And We "fork" over good healthy U.S.Currency to these perverted Pedaphiles!?!

Clinton really needs to hit the gym! let's not reinforce the stereotype shall we.

We will have to borrow the money. Because we are already more than 16 trillion dollars in debt and the White House has predicted huge deficits for at least another decade I estimate that this will end up costing the tax payers 10 times the amount borrowed to repay over the next 180 years. Of course at the rate we are going the federal government will be bankrupt before it can start paying back anything. For example our President promised that the 2012 federal deficit will not exceed 229.27 billion dollars yet the White House has predicted that the 2012 federal deficit will exceed 1.2 trillion dollars. Not even Greece will be able to bail us out. I think that these countries should be providing us with aid.

Time to take America back for the American people. First, kick all of the fools out of Washington running our country for the benefit of the wealthy (Democrats and Republicans). Most of them are just sponges anyhow. Second, get off of Middle Eastern oil dependency. We produce enough oil in the USA not to need oil from the Middle East - our country is the THIRD largest oil producer in the world! But our US oil industries play this game with this American resource so they can increase their profits at the American people's expense. So the government should seize these oil companies and make it benefit all of the American people and not the pockets of a very few. Third, bring jobs back to the USA. Tax heavily those companies that export jobs overseas so they no longer make a profit and subsidize those companies that hire US workers. Forth, stop supporting illegal immigrants and obey our own laws to send these people home when they are caught and most importantly, CHARGE the county they came from the expense of returning them. Be strong... be truthful... and don't give in to other countries BS!!!

I understand the US politicians' point of view. From their standpoint, bribbing someone seems to work because thats how they do their business. Why not countries that hate us?

Don't worry people.

The money is not being spent to help the people there but to strengthen our imperial influence in an area with a lot of mineral wealth.

For instance....OIL.

“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” quote from page 261
of “The Audacity of Hope” by America’s first (and hopefully last) Muslim POTUS

~Barrack Hussain Obama.

I love how liberals are trying to use Romney's taxes as a reason why giving away nearly $2 Billion a year to just Egypt and Libya make sense? First, Romney paid his taxes. He filed his taxes. Just because he sees no benefit in showing them to YOU doesn't mean he didn't pay what was legally owed. If he hadn't paid taxes owed then the IRS would be all over him. So quit with the "but if Romney's taxes" because it makes you look like a fool. If you don't like the tax laws then talk to your representatives to change it. THAT is what Romney/Ryan want to do but the Democrats won't even discuss. Harry Reid won't even allow a discussion on the Senate floor.

Secondly, when we are talking about how to cut our deficit here is $2 BILLION right in front of us we can cut. Yes, relative to the debt it is minor but our government is wasting $2 Billion here, GSA wasted $1 million on a conference, $3 million was given to the University of California to study the video game World of Warcraft, the federal government owns 50,000 VACANT HOMES, Congress appropriated $20 million for "commemoration of success" celebrations related to Iraq and Afghanistan, the National Institutes of Health spends $1.3 million per month to rent a lab that it cannot even use, and our government spends $25 billion annually maintaining unused or vacant federal properties.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg!! We could cut more than $100 billion a year without even blinking and that would be nearly TWICE the amount that the "tax on the rich" would bring in (estimated at $65 billion IF there was no affect on the economy - which certainly there would be).

In other words stop trying to divert from the problem. This government wastes money that is in the hundreds of billions of dollars a year and Egypt and Libya is just a small example of how we give away money unnecessarily AND what makes it even worse we have to BORROW all this money we waste.

We have nothing to apologize for to those sand rat Muslims in the middle east, and further more, I don't want any of my tax dollars going to those f*ckers. I for one am glad that video was made, because it shows how peaceful that religion really is.

This just goes to show how violent and irrational those people are!

Why are they so mad at the U.S. and European countries and that silly little film?

1. Post WWI, The West carves up the Middle East: The Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire (30 October 1918 – 1 November 1922) was a political event that occurred after World War I. The huge conglomeration of territories and peoples formerly ruled by the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire was divided into several new nations.^[1]

The partitioning was planned from the early days of the war,^[2] though the Ottoman Empire's opponents, called the Allies, disagreed over their contradictory post-war aims and made several dual and triple agreements.^[3] After the occupation of Istanbulby British and French troops in November, 1918, the Ottoman government collapsed completely and signed the Treaty of Sèvresin 1920. However, the Turkish War of Independence forced the former Allies to return to the negotiating table before the treaty could be ratified. The Allies and the Grand National Assembly of Turkey signed and ratified the new Treaty of Lausanne in 1923, superseding the Treaty of Sèvres and solidifying most of the territorial issues. One unresolved issue was later negotiated under the League of Nations (see Mosul (1925).

The partitioning brought the creation of the modern Arab world and the Republic of Turkey. The League of Nations granted France mandates over Syria and Lebanon and granted the United Kingdom mandates over Mesopotamia and Palestine (which was later divided into two regions: Palestine and Transjordan). Parts of the Ottoman Empire on the Arabian Peninsula became parts of what are today Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitioning_of_the_Ottoman_Empire

2. Establishment of the state or Israel: On 14 May 1948, the day before the expiration of the British Mandate, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, declared "the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel".^[77][78] The only reference in the text of the Declaration to the borders of the new state is the use of the term,Eretz-Israel.^{[79][citation needed]}

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel}

^{3. U.S. recognition and support for state or Israel: Israel–United States relations are an important factor in the United States government's overall policy in the Middle East, and Congress has placed considerable importance on the maintenance of a close and supportive relationship. The main expression of Congressional support for Israel has been foreign aid.[1] Since 1985, it has provided nearly $3 billion in grants annually to Israel, with Israel being the largest annual recipient of American aid from 1976 to 2004 and the largest cumulative recipient of aid since World War II.[2] Congress has monitored the aid issue closely along with other issues in bilateral relations, and its concerns have affected Administration's policies.[1] Almost all U.S. aid to Israel is now in the form of military assistance, while in the past it also received significant economic assistance. Strong congressional support for Israel has resulted in Israel's receiving benefits not available to other countries.[2]}

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–United_States_relations}

4. Operation AJAX CIA over throws Iran's Parlimentary democracy: The 1953 Iranian coup d'état (known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup^[3]) was the overthrow of thedemocratically elected government of Iran Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh on 19 August 1953, orchestrated by the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom (under the name 'Operation Boot') and the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project).^[4][5] The coup saw the transition of Mohammad-Rezā Shāh Pahlavi from a constitutional monarch to an authoritarian one who relied heavily on United States support to hold on to power until his own overthrow in February 1979.^[6]

...After the coup, Pahlavi ruled as an authoritarian monarch for the next 26 years, until he was overthrown in a popular revolt in 1979.^[21] The tangible benefits the United States reaped from overthrowing Iran's elected government included a share of Iran's oil wealth^[22].....

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état}

5. Iraq/ U.S. support for Saddam Hussein in the 1980s : ...In February 1960, the United States planned a coup against the government of Iraq headed by dictator Abd al-Karim Qasim, who two years earlier had deposed the Western-allied Iraqi monarchy. The US was concerned about the growing influence of Iraqi Communist Party government officials under his administration, as well as his threats to invade Kuwait, which almost caused a war between Iraq and England.

According to the Church Committee, the CIA planned a "special operation" to "incapacitate" an Iraqi Colonel believed to be "promoting Soviet bloc political interests in Iraq." The aim was to send Qasim a poisoned handkerchief, "which, while not likely to result in total disablement, would be certain to prevent the target from pursuing his usual activities for a minimum of three months." During the course of the Committee's investigation, the CIA stated that the handkerchief was "in fact never received (if, indeed, sent)." It added that the colonel: "Suffered a terminal illness before a firing squad in Baghdad (an event we had nothing to do with) after our handkerchief proposal was considered."...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq–United_States_relations

6. U.S. government authorized the sale of dual use chemicals and biological material to Iraq

A review of thousands of declassified government documents and interviews with former U.S. policymakers shows that U.S. provided intelligence and logistical support, which played a role in arming Iraq in its war with Iran. Under the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations, the U.S. authorized the sale to Iraq of numerous dual use items that had both military and civilian applications, including chemicals which can be used in manufacturing of pesticides or chemical weapons and live viruses and bacteria, such as anthrax and bubonic plague used in medicine and the manufacture of vaccines or weaponized for use in biological weapons.

A report of the U.S. Senate's Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs concluded that the U.S. under the successive presidential administrations sold materials including anthrax, and botulism to Iraq right up until March 1992. The chairman of the Senate committee, Don Riegle, said: "The executive branch of our government approved 771 different export licenses for sale of dual-use technology to Iraq. I think its a devastating record."^[10] According to several former officials, the State and Commerce departments promoted trade in such items as a way to boost U.S. exports and acquire political leverage over Hussein.^[11]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq–United_States_relations

7. 1st Gulf war: Other independent reports state significant higher figures. Beth Osborne Daponte�s report for the US Commerce Department�s Census Bureau of Foreign Countries update, estimated 86,000 men, 39,000 women, and 32,000 children killed by Allied Forces. Controversially, she was reprimanded and her report reissued with reduced figures including the omission of women and children deaths. Since the original report she has published more studies that have put the estimate to around 200,000 deaths

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_Iraqis_died_in_the_Gulf_War#ixzz26VYwz7JC

8. 2nd Gulf War/Iraq invasion/occupation: median estimate: 600,000 Iraqi deaths (Muslims). Increased sectarian conflict. 4 million displaced persons.

9. U.S. Torture of Iraqi prisoners (Muslims): Beginning in 2004, human rights violations in the form of physical, psychological, and sexual abuse, including torture,^[1][2][3] reports of rape,^[1][2] sodomy,^[3] andhomicide^[4] of prisoners held in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq (also known as Baghdad Correctional Facility) came to public attention. These acts were committed by military police personnel of the United States Army together with additional US governmental agencies.^[5]

Revealed in the Taguba Report, an initial criminal investigation by the United States Army Criminal Investigation Commandhad already been underway, where soldiers of the 320th Military Police Battalion had been charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice with prisoner abuse. In 2004, articles describing the abuse, including pictures showing military personnel appearing to abuse prisoners, came to public attention, when a 60 Minutes II news report (April 28) and an article bySeymour M. Hersh in The New Yorker magazine (posted online on April 30 and published days later in the May 10 issue) reported the story.^[6]...

^....

'Do you pray to Allah?' one asked. I said yes. They said, '[Expletive] you. And [expletive] him.' One of them said, 'You are not getting out of here health[y], you are getting out of here handicapped. And he said to me, 'Are you married?' I said, 'Yes.' They said, 'If your wife saw you like this, she will be disappointed.' One of them said, 'But if I saw her now she would not be disappointed now because I would rape her.' " [...] "They ordered me to thank Jesus that I'm alive." [...] "I said to him, 'I believe in Allah.' So he said, 'But I believe in torture and I will torture you.'
—Ameen Saeed Al-Sheik, ^[27]

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse}

^{10. Invasions of Afghanistan: From a geopolitical sense, controlling Afghanistan is vital in controlling Southern Asia. Afghanistan played an important part in the Great Game power struggles. Current struggles over Afghanistan can be viewed as an extension of the struggle over control over Southern Asia and its natural resources, as well as its strategic location in the middle of Eurasia. Historically, the conquest of Afghanistan has also played an important role in the invasion of India from the west through the Khyber Pass.}

British invasions:

During the nineteenth century, Afghanistan was invaded twice from British India, during the First Anglo-Afghan

War of 1838–1842 and again in the Second Anglo-Afghan War of 1878–1880, both times with the intention of limiting Russian influence in the country and quelling local tribal leaders. For the entire period, tribal cross-border warfare was constant, and parts of the Pashtun homeland were annexed to British India and referred to as the North-West Frontier Province. The Mughal Empire was dissolved by the British following the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and its last leader, Bahadur Shah II, was exiled to Burma.

Invasion by the United States and allies

U.S. Army soldiers prepare aHumvee to be sling-loaded by a CH-47 Chinook helicopter in Bagram on July 24, 2004.

Main articles: Operation Enduring Freedom and War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

On October 7, 2001 the United States, supported by some NATO countries including the United Kingdom and Australia, as well as other allies, began an invasion of Afghanistan under Operation Enduring Freedom. The invasion was launched to captureOsama bin Laden, who was accused of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The US military forces did not capture him, though they toppled the Taliban government and disrupted bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network. The Taliban government had given shelter to Bin Laden. On May 2, 2011, bin Laden was shot and killed by United States Armed Forces in Pakistan. The Taliban leadership survives in hiding in Afghanistan, largely in the southeast, and continues to launch terrorist attacks against forces of the United States, its allies, and the current government of President Hamid Karzai.

11. Americans burning Korans/Urinating on corpses:

WASHINGTON | Mon Aug 27, 2012 7:05pm EDT

(Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Monday it was disciplining U.S. troops over two incidents that provoked outrage in Afghanistan early this year, one involving a video depicting Marines urinating on corpses and another over burned copies of the Koran...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/27/us-usa-afghanistan-idUSBRE87Q0PP20120827

12. bigoted Anti-Islamic officers in U.S. military:

Military class suspended for its view on Islam

By Pauline Jelinek and Robert Burns - The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday May 10, 2012 18:27:17 EDT

WASHINGTON — A course for U.S. military officers has been teaching that America's enemy is Islam in general, not just terrorists, and suggesting that the country might ultimately have to obliterate the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina without regard for civilian deaths, following World War II precedents of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima or the allied firebombing of Dresden....

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2012/05/ap-military-class-suspended-for-views-on-islam-051012/

This is not meat to justify killing and looting. Too bad the rioters have to express their anger in such a destructive way but there are reasons why they are angry.

alex cali

"DOES THIS INCLUDE CUTTING AID TO ISRAEL TOO??? If you take the next 10 countries after Israel it will not add to what Israel takes in every year..."

You know, for the life of me I CAN NOT FIND A SINGLE news story, video, or any snippet of Israelis protesting outside of our Embassy, burning effigies, or an American Flag. And you know the other thing I find really interesting? In all of the aid we send to Israel, we sure don't see a single solitary crazed jew blowing themselves up inside a mosque, inside a shopping center, planting bombs on airplanes, crashing planes into buildings, releasing saran gas into subways, or hell for that matter, having radical rabbis calling jews to prayer to call for a Jericho against the west. But hey, keep hating Israel. I mean afterall in 1948 they kicked the hell out of the muslim arabs after the UN Partition Plan (which was self defense and didn't involve US Assistance), the 6 day war in 1967 when again they kicked the hell out of the same arab muslims that didn't learn in 1948 (again without US boots on the ground), and was decent enough to allow Palestinians to live in the West Bank and Gaza Strip knowing full well that those poor poor palestinians would continue to fire rockets into Israel even after abandoning settlements. But hey they are jews right, and just because everyone else hates em, we should follow suit. Yeah, I can see your point.... NOT!

When the trouble really gets boiling in the middle east, I am sure we can count on "our friends" in Syria, Lebannon, Iraq, Egypt, Pakistan and Afghanistan to help us put an end to the radicalism. Those damned jewish terrorists something should be done about em.... (total sarcasm)

Hey! ProBusiness, if Romney were Hitler, you would still back him wouldn't you, after all most of you idiots will always vote along party lines, (and I'm talking about the democrats also) you should try voting for the best person for the job instead, you may learn something from it....or....maybe not.

I don't know what to say PROBUISNESS I agree with almost everything you said in post 1.95, EXCEPT that I believe neither romney or obama have any intention to fix or change anything. I think in the next election everyone should vote "NONE OF THE ABOVE" Just like Monty Brewster.

That goes for everyone, senators, congress, governors, EVERYONE! Then we shut the gov't down and start all over! The gov't is so corrupt there is no other way. This country needs to be taken back and given back to the people. We are in real trouble and the bikkerring and fighting between the dems and repubs is not going to fix it.

Everyone knows we were giving foriegn aid to these countries long before obama. The wasteful spending is a problem that has existed for decades.

Its the democrats fault, its the republicans fault, its the democrats fault, its the republicans fault, its the democrats fault, its the republicans fault!

I AM SO TIRED OF THIS. EVERYONE IS SO BUSY TRYING TO PLACE THE BLAME ON THE OTHER THAT NO ONE IS PUTTING ANY REAL EFFORT INTO FIXING THE PROBLEM. WHEN SOME ONE DOES COME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT MIGHT HELP, THERS NO WAY THE OTHER PARTY WILL VOTE FOR IT FOR FEAR THE OTHER PARTY WILL GET CREDIT FOR FIXING THE PROBLEM!

Its time to end party affiliation and make the individual count! each party fights blindly for their own agenda to the detriment of the country! Corruption exists in ALL parties and people. blaming a persons poitical affilliation will not fix the problem. The republicans say elect only repubs and this wont happen and the dems say the same thing. BS,BS,BS! I'm right and your wrong and there is no middle ground is how both parties feel so lets get rid of them ALL! There is no other way out of the mess this country is in.

"...Beyond the long-term US support for Mubarak, Egyptians would likely find it difficult to reconcile Engel's claim that the US freed them with the "made in USA" logos on the tear gas cannisters used against them by Mubarak's security forces; or with Hillary Clinton's touching 2009 declaration that "I really consider President and Mrs Mubarak to be friends of my family"; or with Obama's support for Mubarak up until the very last minute when his downfall became inevitable; or with the fact that the Obama administration plan was to engineer the ascension of the loathed, US-loyal torturer Omar Suleiman as Mubarak's replacement in the name of "stability"…"

US media angrily marvels at the lack of Muslim gratitude

NBC News, along with a leading US newspaper, insist that Egyptians should be grateful to the US for having 'freed' them

• Glenn Greenwald
• guardian.co.uk, Friday 14 September 2012 11.51 EDT

An injured Egyptian protester looks on during clashes with riot police near the US embassy in Cairo. Photograph: Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images

One prominent strain shaping American reaction to the protests in the Muslim world is bafflement, and even anger, that those Muslims are not more grateful to the US. After all, goes this thinking, the US bestowed them with the gifts of freedom and democracy – the very rights they are now exercising – so how could they possibly be anything other than thankful? Under this worldview, it is especially confounding that the US, their savior and freedom-provider, would be the target of their rage.

On Wednesday, USA Today published an article with the headline "After attacks in Egypt and Libya, USA Today asks: Why?" The paper appeared to tell its readers that it was the US that freed the Egyptian people from tyranny:

"Attacks in Libya that left four US diplomats dead – including Ambassador Christopher Stevens – and a mob invasion of the US Embassy in Cairo, in which the US flag was torn to shreds, have left many to wonder: How can people the USA helped free from murderous dictators treat it in such a way?"

Did you know that the "USA helped free" Egyptians from their murderous dictator? On Thursday night, NBC News published a nine-minute report on Brian Williams' "Rock Center" program featuring its foreign correspondent, Richard Engel, reporting on the demonstrations in Cairo, which sounded exactly the same theme. Standing in front of protesting Egyptians in Tahrir Square, Engel informed viewers that this was all so very baffling because it was taking place "in Cairo, where the US turned its back on its old friend Hosni Mubarak", and then added:

"It is somewhat ironic with American diplomats inside the embassy who helped to give these demonstrators, these protesters, a voice, and allowed them to actually carry out these anti-American clashes that we're seeing right now."

That it was the US who freed Egyptians and "allowed them" the right to protest would undoubtedly come as a great surprise to many Egyptians. That is the case even beyond the decades of arming, funding and general support from the US for their hated dictator (to his credit, Engel including a snippet of an interview with Tariq Ramadan pointing out that the US long supported the region's dictators).

Beyond the long-term US support for Mubarak, Egyptians would likely find it difficult to reconcile Engel's claim that the US freed them with the "made in USA" logos on the tear gas cannisters used against them by Mubarak's security forces; or with Hillary Clinton's touching 2009 declaration that "I really consider President and Mrs Mubarak to be friends of my family"; or with Obama's support for Mubarak up until the very last minute when his downfall became inevitable; or with the fact that the Obama administration plan was to engineer the ascension of the loathed, US-loyal torturer Omar Suleiman as Mubarak's replacement in the name of "stability".

Given the history of the US in Egypt, both long-term and very recent, it takes an extraordinary degree of self-delusion and propaganda to depict Egyptian anger toward the US as "ironic" on the ground that it was the US who freed them and "allowed" them the right to protest. But that is precisely the theme being propagated by most US media outlets…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/14/egypt-nbc?newsfeed=true

Given the history of the US in Egypt, both long-term and very recent, it takes an extraordinary degree of self-delusion and propaganda to depict Egyptian anger toward the US as "ironic" on the ground that it was the US who freed them and "allowed" them the right to protest. But that is precisely the theme being propagated by most US media outlets…

That article would make me extremely angry. How dare European newspapers are shocked that we think people should be given a chance to prove themselves before we realize they can't be trusted.

And this is coming from the UK? Tell the people in the UK to deal with their own muslim hate groups first before they criticize the US.

As Americans, we know the President screwed up. Whether we continue to let him, we'll decide that this November.

@Pacific NW Mark

Barack Obama sent money and used our military to help the "rebels" overthrow the governments of Libta and Egypt.

The rebels it turns out were al-qaeda.

Now these countries are controlled by the muslime brotherhood and al-qaeda.

Barack Obama has sent them over 2.5 billion dollars of your money since they overthrew the governments.

Do you really think it is right for Barack Obama to be sending billions of dollars to al-qaeda??

Cutting humanitarian aid was the spark that lit Osama bin Laden's fuse.

Got any proof that the current uprisings are backed by the governments of those countries? You want to say the film isn't an issue - then say the uprisings represent all Middle Eastern people...shakes head.

Funny - NBC has a video of the governments forces running off the protesters...the protesters don't look happy that they are being run off...hummmmmm? The protesters are a small minority, but who bothers with facts.

President Obama stated Egypt is not our enemy or our ally. Then why have you, Mr. President, granted them Billions of dollars in foreign aid to them each year (other USA Administrations did also)? The article stated $1.55 Billion in Y2013. That is NOT the totally amount of USA federal taxpayer aid to Egypt. The correct figure is $1.7 Billion. Plus President Obama has offered to forgive $1 Billions in debt to the USA. Egypt has a current debt of $3.5 Billion to the USA.

Stop all World aid it's bankrupting our Nation, we are drowning in our debt, this is insanity !!!!!!!!

Americans posting comments in response to these events seem totally unaware that the vast majority of Imams and clerics of Islam have declared a holy jihad [Holy war] against the infidels of the world and, that by killing an infidel, (which is a command to all Muslims) they are assured of a place in heaven. The definition of an infidel is a 'non-believer?' In the event some may fail to understand the significance of that Islamic command, all followers of Allah have been commanded to kill everyone who is not of their faith so they can have a place in heaven. In effect they have been commanded to kill everyone in this chat who is not a Muslim.

I have a real problem trying to imagine Pope John Paul commanding all Catholics to kill those not of your faith or Dr.Chas. Stanley ordering all Protestants to do the same in order to guarantee themselves a place in heaven!'

The challenges for America are obvious. Unfortunately, current White house leadership seems determined to marginalize America at any cost.

Whether you are a grandparent, parent or young adult, the upcoming election portends unprecedented implications for the future of America. It would be a great injustice for any American to go to the polls this fall without being fully informed!

This message somehow needs to get back to the main stream media. Their continued promotion of Obama is what will destroy America. I don't think the media realizes how much damage they are doing.

Thank you ClearVoice2 for your post 1.67.

Chuck Todd with NBC News said these words a day after the storming of the US Embassy in Egypt, "I'm shocked that President Morsi has not condemned the attack on the Embassy".

WHAT!?!?!?

I was not shocked at all. I can't believe that a regular housewife has more common sense than an experienced NBC News correspondent.

This naive statement from a major American news network reporter is what the American people are hearing.

Reminds me of the words from Bohemian Rhapsody: "Open your eyes, look up to the sky and see."

OPEN YOUR EYES PEOPLE!!!!!!

Another eye opening item that the media has not mentioned.

Did anyone notice that in his only statement from the White House to the American people, Obama left out any mention of the storming of the US Embassy in Egypt.

How can an American President, speaking to the American people, leave out this horrible incident?

"DOES THIS INCLUDE CUTTING AID TO ISRAEL TOO??? If you take the next 10 countries after Israel it will not add to what Israel takes in every year..."

You know, for the life of me I CAN NOT FIND A SINGLE news story, video, or any snippet of Israelis protesting outside of our Embassy, burning effigies, or an American Flag.

Whether you can find it or not, the amount of aid to Egypt is tied to the amount of aid to Israel by treaty. We are not allowed to cut one without cutting the other.

And you know the other thing I find really interesting? In all of the aid we send to Israel, we sure don't see a single solitary crazed jew blowing themselves up inside a mosque, inside a shopping center, planting bombs on airplanes, crashing planes into buildings, releasing saran gas into subways, or hell for that matter, having radical rabbis calling jews to prayer to call for a Jericho against the west

You don't really pay attention to what is happening to the Palestinians, do you? Aside from random slaughter of a few hundred Palestinians every now and then, I would suggest you google "sabra and shatilla" and "Baruch Goldstein."

You see, Obama and company thinks that their polices will make them our "friends".

You might not have noticed it, because it wasn't mentioned in the news, but 1.5 billion muslims did NOT riot, attack anyone, murder anyone or do anything particularly radical. They just went about their business.

Chuck Todd with NBC News said these words a day after the storming of the US Embassy in Egypt, "I'm shocked that President Morsi has not condemned the attack on the Embassy".

WHAT!?!?!?

I was not shocked at all. I can't believe that a regular housewife has more common sense than an experienced NBC News correspondent.

Maybe you need to learn how to read before starting to congratulate yourself on your sagacity and wisdom:

From http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/13/us-egypt-protest-idUSBRE88C0BP20120913 :-

Egypt's Mursi condemns embassy attack, protesters clash

Obama's foreign policy - Take a friend (Egypt) and a neutral country (Libya) and turn them over to Obama's Muslim Brotherhood. Obama bombed Libya w/o consent of congress, killing thousands and ousting Qaddafi. Obama is responsible for the ambassador being captured by the brotherhood, tortured, mutilated, raped and killed.
Egypt was a friend, but Obama pressured our friend, Mubarak to step down. The events in Libya and Egypt would not happen w/o the intervention of the dark lord, Barack Hussein Obama.

In 2014, will cause the end of America- closing hundreds of coal fired generating plants and making others spend $1,000,000,000 to make Obama upgrades. We will also have the full implementation of Obamacare, and will lose in disgrace the afghan war. Obama loses another muslim country.

This just in,

US orders Tunisia and Sudan withdrawal

The United States has ordered non-essential diplomatic staff and their families to leave Sudan and Tunisia.

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Actually I think it's the smart thing to do (well, it's the only thing left to do), but politically Romney is going to be able to crush Obama on his foreign policy now!

THIS IS GOING TO BE POLITICALLY DEVASTATING FOR OBAMA!

He is admitting that his foreign policy has failed!

So I guess it's back to the economy,

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OBAMA HAS FAILED!

TIME TO KICK HIM OUT!

Wow we have a lot of know nothings on this forum discussing things they have no clue about.

If the tighty whities spent 1.5 Billion on rescuing some poor Wall Street CEOs, that would be well spent.

I'm just surprised some of these haters have not suggested nuking every other country except Israel yet.

Egypt's Mursi condemns embassy attack, protesters clash

Byron, Egypt's President condemned about a day later.

Chuck Todd was shocked because usually the President of any country condemns immediately, they don't wait and then condemn. These are the facts.

We are there ONLY because BOZOhussen -the chosen one, and Over-the-HILL'ry want us there!! He promised 4 years ago to have us out, but sent many more troops...why is any American blood being shed for those in-bred tribal murderers..NO more tax $$$ for those who are not With US..Like LBJ did, this is oabamas Vietnam!!

From the book of love..the devil mohamed said..Qur’an (3:118) – “O you who believe! do not take for intimate friends from among others than your own people, they do not fall short of inflicting loss upon you; they love what distresses you; vehement hatred has already appeared from out of their mouths, and what their breasts conceal is greater still; indeed, We have made the communications clear to you, if you will understand.” This verse not only warns Muslims not to take non-Muslims as friends, but it establishes the deep-seated paranoia that the rest of the world is out to get them.
Qur’an (9:23) – “O ye who believe! Choose not your fathers nor your brethren for friends if they take pleasure in disbelief rather than faith. Whoso of you taketh them for friends, such are wrong-doers” Even family members are not to be taken as friends if they do not accept Islam. (This is the mildest interpretation of this verse from the 9th Sura, which also advocates “slaying the unbeliever wherever ye find them”).

Wake up America..any who believe such hateful ideologys, can never be your friend!!

It's official: AMERICA HAS GONE FULL RETARD!!! At this point it's clear education has lost and ignorance has won. The collective American mind not only has Alzheimer's, but schizophrenia as well.

One year we decide sending our military might to Afghanistan to root out the bad guys is worth it, then the next year we decide we need to send our military to Iraq to root out WMD's that don't exist, then in 2003 we decide, since WMD's don't exist, that we want to spread democracy in the middle east, then we decide that it's too expensive to keep our soldiers occupying 2 countries at once and we are loosing too many service member lives: so time to come home, and to top it all off, now we decide that the democracy we helped spread isn't what we wanted after all. Maybe all you geniuses can explain why the people that attacked this country on 9/11 were trained, protected, and sheltered in Afghanistan by an extreme Islamic fundamentalist group called the Taliban. Here's a hint: the US thought it was too expensive to provide foreign aid to the government of Afghanistan. Add up the cost of fighting 2 wars simultaneously, the lives lost in the process, and the debt we've saddled ourselves with to do so. Looks like foreign aid to the government of Afghanistan in the late 80's would have been a bargain, but then again, we had a bunch of conservatives that understand a few pennies saved now is worth a few thousand lost 15 years later.

Obama has been a foreign relations disaster. Obama cut and ran in Iraq, and now all the gains we made are collapsing. Obama has announced our withdrawal from Afghanistan, and now the Taliban is asserting influence and our soldiers are dying from insider attacks. Hatred for the US is inflamed in the Middle East, and it was far too well coordinated and planned to have been the result of some lame YouTube video like the Obama administration wants you to believe. Gas is now over 4.00 a gallon which is another indicator of Obama failing in foreign policy. This country has paid a very heavy price for electing the most unqualified president ever, and the only thing that could make is worse would be to give Obama four more years to wreck his brand of destruction on the American people.

I take umbrage with the writer's remark that Medicare is costing 1.5 billion a day. Why should he compare Medicare with the money we're giving to terrorists? Whether or not he was putting it in perspective. We Americans paid for our Medicare and it's there to help us when we need it. Why not take all the money we throw away on these terrorists and put it into Medicare and Social Security? Why is he pandering to the Islamic terrorists? I keep saying "terrorists" because our esteemed leader seems to choke on the word. Well, I choke on the word president when refering to him.

Watch 2016 Obamas America and get a clue of what he is doing.

With Obamas help America is racing toward bankruptcy. That is the plan. When it happens and it will all government checks will stop.

Think about what you recieve from the government and consider what will happen when the check or service stops.

If you think I'm full of it then tell me what is the reason Obama has spent more money in only 3.5 years then George Bush did in 8?? And consider the last 2 years of Bush was controlled by a congress ran by liberals.

Google the national debt and look at the spending from year to year. It goes to insane levels after the liberals took over congress and only slowed after the conservatives took back the house in 2010.

No person in the history of man has ever fixed a financial disaster by going on a spending spree! It always ends in bankruptcy and that is where Obama is taking us.

FORWARD????????

We can not afford to buy friends any more.

Congress can't get it through their heads.....you cannot buy friends. You cannot tame a rabid dog.

As soon as the OBAMACARE TAX kicks in we should be able to support everyone. Except US!

Vote the fool out. No more tax and spend mentality. Slash government. 30% pay cuts for all elected officials. 10% pay cuts for all govt employees. Cut taxes for everyone.

Somebody pinch me. I'm dreaming.

The USA has a current annual budget deficit of more than $1,400,000,000,000. A few hundred BILLION of that is borrowed every year from China (when they buy our bonds). We will be paying interest on this borrowed money to China for the coming decades. We take this borrowed money and GIVE large chunks of it yearly to nations in the Middle East. These same nations allow (and sometimes encourage) their citizens to KILL our citizens (and even our ambassadors). It's time to stop borrying money from China so we gave give it to these ungrateful nations! IF they need money in aid, then China can loan it directly to them! I BET if China loans the $ to them that they won't even try to pull this crap on China! Nope, China knows how to deal with terrorists!

Why is Obama giving away our money ? One more reason to get rid of him.

All this World aid BS started with the GOP and all their Wars, it's time to stop this Madness, America first !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hanoi John kerry is at it again!!! LIAR, Liar pants on fire..maybe that was Slick Wilie...

kerry hides behind closed records of his DisHonorable discharge..calls all Vets murders/rapists!!

BOZOhussen hides behind his closed college transcripts/info and What about his DISbarrment from Ill. law??!!! He must have done something very bad, 1st others lawyers said it would reflect badly on them..2nd,,Ill lawyers said it would reflect badly upon them!!

Imagine that, the Chicago MOBpolictis cares about how people conceive them??!!! verrry interesting!!

Amen

Exactly!You are so correct,why not send clinton and obummer over there and see how love they recieve.By the how much money do they send to us???????????????????????????

If the government is so desperate to buy friends, maybe they should just adopt a pet!

If Obama is so desperate to buy friends (votes), maybe he should executive order a tax rebate to all American taxpayers.

That would make to much sense, sounds to logical, to easy for our government Not Your ATM

Just keep in mind the LAST time the world laughed at our weakness, took over our embassies, and killed an ambassador in an embassy was during the Jimmy Carter administration. And we see how THAT turned out.

Well that wasn't the last time, technically.

In 1993 they attacked the WTC the first time... and that same year, we had Black hawk Down.

Then we had the Kenyan Embassy Bombings of 1998.

And then we had the Cole bombing in 2000.

Clinton retaliated and put the fear of Allah in them .... by obliterating an aspirin factory.

And look what the very real weakness of responding to these things led to? Oh yeah, the 9/11 event that DNCNews had the balls to blame on Bush (who'd been in office all of eight months) a few days ago.

Israel gets $18.7 billion dollars a year from the U.S., this is insane, just think what that money could do for Americans !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We borrow money from China ( Debt ) and give it to Foreign Country's, for what ??????????

If something isn't done with this crazy foreign aid BS we are going to go belly up !!!!!!!!!!!!

Interesting how not ONE republican screamed about the aid to Egypt, Pakistan and Libya during the Bush years. Here are some FACTS that were "accidentally" not added to the article. 2 billion in aid to Egypt since CAMP DAVID accords. That means REAGAN years, BUSH I years, BUSH 2 years, (that's 20 in case you can't count) and also during Clinton and Obama years (that's 11) Here's something the MIGHT just tick you off: OBAMA CUT THE GIVING of that money by HALF, and not only WARNED Pakistan but also asked Congress (thanks for trying to take the credit there, Senator) to STOP funds to Pakistan WELL earlier in this year. But hey, be angry, make SURE you blame the wrong person for "helping" the other countries.

One more FACT for all of you so gung ho on THAT person's free speech: he's EGYPTIAN, and KNEW that it would incite riots and DELIBERATELY started a mess between the U.S. and Egypt. NOT TO MENTION the guy is a METH addict, AND has stolen NUMEROUS U.S. identities along with their money from SOCIAL SECURITY. But hey, keep him around right? He is FULLY aware that what he did in his OWN country is the DEATH penalty. so why not GLEEFULLY and GIDDILY start a freaking war between the U.S. and the Mideast. NAHHHH don't hold him accountable for that. Just be angry at Obama for actually CUTTING funding to that area while other presidents did NOT.

Yes, that is like walking down a dark alley where you are grabbed, pulled to a dark corner, and bent over a wooden crate. Then when finished they tell you "give me $20 and I'll promise to like you". And to make it worse you tell them you don't have the cash and they tell you they take credit cards. So you are BORROWING money and giving it to them hoping they will like you and the next time you are in a dark alley they will bend you over a wooden crate again?

When will we learn that giving a bully your lunch money only encourages them to take your lunch money every day going forward!!

We print more fiat money to pay them billions. This is insane that we owe $16T dollars of debt and do this. Insane.

And yet, the democrats don't realize this is why spending in Washington needs to stop.

$mitt Robmey and ol lyin RYAN GONNA be the bully then we put the fear of the lord in them ayrabs! Woohoo, we going to do the lords work. Even if it take us to armadgedion.. AMen!!

Seems to me, you guys have it all backwards. We've been giving this aid to Egypt since the 60s. It's not really feasible to blame that on Obama, or say it's only been the last four years. The President wasn't offering these countries money. He was not so subtly reminding them that if they don't start acting like our allies, he can cut the money off.

Den O'synn:

The President wasn't offering these countries money. He was not so subtly reminding them that if they don't start acting like our allies, he can cut the money off.

President Obama stated Egypt is not our enemy or our ally. Then why did he granted them Billions of dollars in foreign aid to them each year (other USA Administrations did also)? The article stated $1.55 Billion in Y2013. That is NOT the totally amount of USA federal taxpayer aid to Egypt. The correct figure is $1.7 Billion. Plus President Obama has offered to forgive $1 Billion in debt to the USA. Egypt has a current debt of $3.5 Billion to the USA.

The way I see it the GOP Warmongers started all our problems we have in the World !!!!!!!!

Unhappy-1583758

"And yet, the democrats don't realize this is why spending in Washington needs to stop."

(post 5.3)

But the republicans do?
Are you serious? You think this spending only started when the democrats took office?
GET A CLUE! ITS NOT A DEMOCRAT THING, ITS NOT A REPUBLICAN THING! ITS A CORRUPT GOVERNMENT THING! NEITHER PARTY IS GOING TO STOP IT! AND THEY ALL BELIEVE WE AS THE GENERAL POPULOUS ARE TOO STUPID TO SEE THIS. EVERY PARTY FEELS ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS TELL US ITS THE OTHER PARTIES FAULT.
All they care about is getting their own officials into office to strengthen their own positions (I bet niether candidate realy and truly knows what their partys stance on the problem is, they only know its not their fault). They could care less about what the problems in our government are. Its a power struggle and we (the citizens) are the monkeys in the middle, consantly left jumping at the ball (a reasonable fix) being tossed between the two parties, while they laugh and giggle with each other at the utter futileness of our situation.
They control it and they know there is nothing we can do about it. Even if we voted for a candidate that could fix or start fixing the problems,anything he proposed would just get shot down as soon as it went to the senate or congress.
We need ot abollish all pollitical "parties",make the individual count, and hold pubic votes on all matters of spending and law. Or we need a revolution. It doesnt matter if Obama or Ryan gets elected. Neither one is gonna fix it. I guarantee at the next election in 2016 NO MATTER WHO GETS ELECTED we will be facing more debt, the same questions with no answers from either candidate, and all of them will be blaming the other party saying all we have to do is vote for them and all our problems will magically go away.
How long is this going to continue before we as americans put a stop to it?

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
These are more than just quotes from Thomas Jefferson they are words to embrace and live by. There is no other way out of this poitically corrupt mess we call our government!

#5.3 - Fri Sep 14, 2012 8:33 PM EDT

Im sorry ...

"It doesnt matter if Obama or Ryan gets elected. Neither one is gonna fix it"

I meant to say Obama or Romney/Ryan in post 5.8

It is proven by past claims from this administration....take what number they give you as a cost and multiply it by 300 %.. obamaDONTcare,= largest tax on the middle class in world history, no one can afford it!! Pelosi,.. just sign the blank check now, you can trust me to fill it out properly. SURE!! Where are costs of all the missiles and military support given to the ArabBros...??? What a crock!!! What about the $ 58 BILLION given to the Egypt and Libyan Banks by BozoHussen???

Clint Eastwood said it best...the craziness in DC has got to end..We the people hired you to do a job and you have failed, now we will fire you!!!..You Made my Day, MR. Eastwood!!

A little Islamaphobic are we sharky, I say you're wrong. You are too narrow between the eyes and have too much empty space between your ears to even comprehend the full measure of the issues here.

Where are all the muslims on this site? I haven't seen any of them yet or their monikers. And yes, I know who you are.

Maybe they are being silent because they are being attacked for a change and nobody is falling for their "victim" mentality?

"To put that number in perspective, the federal government spends about $1.5 billion a day on Medicare."

The only "perspective" that puts on it is how incredibly wasteful our government is and only further highlights why foreign countries cannot continue to be subsidized with U.S. tax dollars while America is being bled dry.

You have an administration that has a weak fiscal policy & an awful foreign policy !

This is the Obama legacy. Very disappointing !

He led NATO in creating this total upheaval in the ME. Whether you liked the regimes or not we should have stayed out of it ! Now me have a self inflicted chaos & anti American ME.

Obama should support Israel but failed there aswell !

backing Israel 100% would show strength against the Iranian threat & show Islamists that we won't be pushed around !

To Charlie: WHAT CRAZY BAT CRAP UNIVERSE ARE YOU LIVING IN?? Bush Created a fiscal disaster here and there.Bush made a disaster of the Middle East. While Israel was experiencing suicide bombings it only spread to the rest of the region AFTER Bush's invasions. And Obama is supporting Israel and that is why he has the majority of Jewish supporters. The Arabs already hated us and that is why we got hit on 911 (on Bush's watch). Your revisionism is startling stop overloading on Faux New.

Vera, aren't you late for work at Mel's Diner?

Vera - government policy created the disaster. It was government policy to give loans to less and less qualified people.

Hint. Bank Standards 20% down, 35% maximum of your income to credit payments, solid credit rating, and fully verifiable income history.

Federal Standards 0% down, 42% maximum of your income to credit, Credit history not so important, and income doesn't have to be proven.

What on earth could have gone wrong?

unapreciative A-holes biting the hand that feeds them. How much do we send in aid?

1.5 billion a day... on Medicare! I think its time for an audit.

Talk to the Hand,

Talk to the Empty Chair, as a senile old actor once did....

Vera-586899

"To Charlie: WHAT CRAZY BAT CRAP UNIVERSE ARE YOU LIVING IN?? Bush Created a fiscal disaster here and there.Bush made a disaster of the Middle East. While Israel was experiencing suicide bombings it only spread to the rest of the region AFTER Bush's invasions. And Obama is supporting Israel and that is why he has the majority of Jewish supporters. The Arabs already hated us and that is why we got hit on 911 (on Bush's watch). Your revisionism is startling stop overloading on Faux New."

Interesting, I guess you never heard of Khobar Towers, never heard of the Marine Barracks in Beirut, never heard of the bombing of the German Discotech, never heard of Pan Am Flight 103, never heard of the attempted bombings of the World Trade Center PRIOR TO 9-11, never heard of the Embassy bombings in Kenya, probably never heard of the bombing of the USS COLE either. Hell I am even willing to bet you probably never picked up a news paper or caught any current events other than what you have overloaded on catching snippets between Days of our Lives and As the World Turns.

Another little interesting tidbit, just FYI - April 1996, Osama bin Laden was an official guest of the radical Islamic government of Sudan – a government that had been implicated in the attacks on the World Trade Center in 1993, with the belief bin Laden had funded the terrorist operation.The bombing of Khobar Towers in 1996 (Clinton Administration officials admit that they “received a wave of threats against Americans and American installations in Saudi Arabia” in the weeks leading up to the attack, “but failed to prepare adequately for a bomb the size that killed 19 American military personnel), and the bombing of the USS COLE, were also linked directly to Osama bin Laden and the Al-Qaeda network.

According to the 9/11 Commission they found that the Clinton administration encouraged Sudan to deport bin Laden back to Saudi Arabia and spent 10 weeks trying to convince the Saudi government to accept him. One Clinton security official told The Washington Post that they had "a fantasy" that the Saudi government would quietly execute bin Laden. When the Saudis refused bin Laden’s return, Clinton officials convinced the Sudanese simply to expel him, hoping that the move would at least disrupt bin Laden’s activities.

Much of the controversy stems from claims that President Clinton made in a February 2002 speech and then retracted in his 2004 testimony to the 9/11 Commission (amazing how Clinton has these memory lapses - just like the trysts with Gennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones). In the 2002 speech Clinton seems to admit that the Sudanese government offered to turn over bin Laden:

Clinton: So we tried to be quite aggressive with them [al Qaeda]. We got – well, Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991, then he went to Sudan. And we’d been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again. They released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America. So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, ’cause they could have. But they thought it was a hot potato and they didn’t and that’s how he wound up in Afghanistan.

Clinton later claimed to have misspoken and stated that there had never been an offer to turn over bin Laden. It is clear, however, that Berger, at least, did consider the possibility of bringing bin Laden to the U.S., but, as he told The Washington Post in 2001, "The FBI did not believe we had enough evidence to indict bin Laden at that time, and therefore opposed bringing him to the United States." According to NewsMax.com, Sandy Berger (National Security Advisor) later emphasized in an interview with WABC Radio that, while administration officials had discussed whether or not they had ample evidence to indict bin Laden, ultimately they were satisfied with Sudan expelling him.

SO Vera, disbarred, impeached, straight faced lying to the American Public (not having sex with that woman) Billy Boy Clinton HAD THE OPPORTUNITY to handle bin Laden WELL BEFORE 9/11. Oh and BTW, you know the same Bush you are bashing, is the same Bush that repealed Executive Order 12333 and made the targeting (assassination) of bin Laden and any other terrorists threatening the security of the United States possible. **As a side note, this wasn't seen, heard, or gathered from FAUX NEWS, but from the Library of Congress, history books, and the detailed findings from the 9/11 commission.

Have a nice day....

China and Russia are waiting right behind us to pick up where we left off. That is what is bad. I am thinking that drill baby drill was not such a bad idea after all. At least we can regulate the hello out of it.

We have MORE than enough oil in the Bakken Field. In fact there is more oil under Montana and North Dakota that what is even remotely available in Saudi Arabia. And if you believe the horsesht that comes out of these inflated prices, it boils down to oil speculation, then its refineries. But do you realize most of the refineries are in the Gulf states. So common effing sense tells you build refineries up north, or east or west, or hell why not build quite a few of em. But you see, they won't want to do that, of course not, would make too much sense.

Here is the other little issue people seem to forget. We had an oil crisis back in the 70s under Jimminy Peanut Farmer Carter with miles long lines at the gas pumps. Did we learn from that? NOPE. Instead what do we do? Well we ENCOURAGE FOREIGN OIL COMPANIES TO DRILL IN AMERICAN OIL FIELDS, then SELL US OUR OIL. If you doubt it, What the hell is BP doing in the Gulf of Mexico, with waivers from the US Dept of Energy? Forget about that little oil spill? Those fields are in AMERICAN TERRITORY being drilled out be BRITISH COMPANY then SOLD to the US. How about the MATL line or the Keystone Pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico so THEY can pump the oil Straight back to Canada? And you want to hear even more assinine under THIS ADMINISTRATION? How about FOREIGN COMPANIES and UTILITY COMPANIES being able to declare AMERICAN FARM LAND, RANCHES, and FORESTS as CONDEMNED - part of the imminent domain deal. You even have these foreign companies SUING in US COURTS to SIEZE US PROPERTY and what does the current administration do? UH, I will sign off on that...

This asshat in the whitehouse needs to go. And while I don't necessarily believe Romney is a good choice, and we sure as hell don't have a homeless vet on the ballot, I guess this year I will have to vote NONE OF THE ABOVE. I would rather put a poor homeless person in the white house, because at least they sure as hell understand the value of money, the joy of home ownership, and the corruption of allowing BANKS to dictate the cost of the American Dream, which with this CURRENT ADMINISTRATION will only ever be a dream never to be realized. A homeless guy knows and understands that illegal immigrants shouldn't have precedent over an AMERICAN homeless guy, or be shown amnesty and social assistance while there are AMERICAN CITIZENS living under bridges and eating from dumpsters. And trust me when I say this, a homeless guy isn't going to concern himself with $25k a plate campaign fundraisers, when he can have a $5 wiennie roast and relate to the people that actually vote for him. But I guess most of all, the homeless guy would be grateful to have rent free place to live for 4 years and do the job asked of him, instead of worrying about shaving a few strokes off his golf game, or jet setting in a TAX PAYER PAID aircraft, with a security detail so they can have 9 vacations a year.

And it seems to me that Mr Rand's proposal of having some sort of product for what we are paying for makes perfect damned sense to me. I sure as hell am not going to take my car to the repair shop, pay $3k to have the engine replaced, only to have that car not start, run, or otherwise not move. The same holds true for our foreign aide money, unless of course we are spending that money to see our fellow countrymen killed, maimed, and tortured, and our flag burned in protest.

Talk to the empty chair .... your savior Governor Robmey and Congressman Lyin Ryan will solve all of your problems ....... LOL

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you are a freaking idiot the congress and senate fund these /this scum,it sounds good to blame him but you are on the wrong track butthead,yes always blame the black guy its a damn good thing he's alot smarter than you are.

And the race card comes out. When are you clowns going to get it that no one, except the left, cares what color the guy is? Being stupid and fragile has nothing to do with color. And how do you know that Obama is so smart? Because he said so? The only thing he is good at is coning stupid sheep.

yes always blame the black guy

Wasteful spending has nothing to do with the race of the current President...

racist, scared, white pecker rednecks seem to be populating this thread.. just go out and buy another gun you insecure inbreds...

We are 16 trillion dollars in debt.

Right! We all need to shout this from our rooftops. Maybe then the Obama crowd will get the message.

Good point Andreas. Don't assume that the American government is so completely ignorant. We get something for that money. Even if its just cash in the pockets of American arms producers. There's power that's bought with that chump change that these countries get.

I can understand if you think that money's not well spent. I think its not well spent when it goes to tax breaks for the oil industry. But there's some value behind that money and if we are going to cut it then we need to be sure we aren't going to pay more in the long term.

Knee jerk, emotional reactions are no way to run a Nation.

Not one of us on this vine has the tinyest idea what foriegn affairs is all about. Oversea CIA operations, US loans to foreign countries, and borrowing from others. Treaty negotiations, banking deals with foreign bank, arms trades, and the list goes on. Then there are us brainiacs here that think we have all the answers. Haa!

one Israel wood win all aid to egypt shood go to only real frend we hav there Israel

Let Israel turn it all into a sheet of glass.

Had Obama not decided to get rid of Mubarak, Egypt would not be in turmoil today. Had Obama not decided to get rid of Qadaffi, Lybia would not be in turmoil today and Ambassador Stevens and staff would not be dead today.

Way to go, Obama. Great foreign affairs expert that you are.

Hannity is a low life and will keep lying as long as it keeps paying!

A few?????????? Are we watching the same video tapes?????

Don't pay your taxes if you don't want them sent overseas.

Hey Blah, did you ever wonder WHY our US Citizens (i.e. soldiers) are urinating on those corpses? Did you ever consider those same "citizens" coming under fire while trying to truck aid, medicine, and food to villages? Did you ever consider those same "citizens" having to stand there and watch our flags burned while they are trying to liberate the same people burning them? Or maybe you should consider our "citizens" that are trying to train the rag tag motley group to secure their own nation having guns turned on em and shot down. It could be a question of something purely as simple as those "citizens" being away from family and loved ones, bleeding and dying for a bunch of ungrateful asshats that smile to thier face, then turn around and tell their Taliban buddies how and where to strike em.

Yeah, I can certainly see how the anger should only be 1 sided. Funny thing is, when our guys burned Quorans that had messages written in them (which according to their own shia law SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN DEFACED WITH THAT WRITING) our current Administration practically ended the careers of those soldiers, but when the careers and lives of our soldiers are ended by the green on blue attacks, there sure as hell is NO OUTRAGE from this administration about those "expendable citizens".

Personally, if our guys want to piss on those that have tried to kill em, wound em, maim em, and rid thier families of those "citizens", well I guess I would just have to say "shake it once boys, anything more than that constitutes pleasure. And we certainly can't have pleasure in a warzone..."

I agree this country should be enraged over this, aid? to h3ll with them...........

GWMO722 What a dumb comment. These countries that don't like us don't want to throw stones! They want to kill people! You are so naive!!! Open your eyes and ears!!!

Dan- They want to kill infidels with stones or anything else, gwmo gets that, which is a lot more than most liberals get.

Dan C (20.1):

You're the dumb one. You just don't get it, and never will.

Wow, that's quite a response Jean321, with the 3-2-1 does that indicate blast-off because you obviously don't get it!!!!!

You mean like killing OBL??

Dope.

Wow I thought it was Seal team 6 that killed OBL! You do know where O got his intelligence information, right? Clinton was reported to get OBL handed to him on a silver platter and did NOTHING. Pakistan lets him hide (yes let him, the Pakistanies know where everything and everyone in their country is including fleas, cockroaches, and rats) there and it took years of intelligence gathered, starting under Bush to uncover his whereabouts thanks to a brave and courageous insider. DOPE x 2

Hey "JoePhilly", Bin Laden and 9/11 WOULD NOT have been happening IF "IMPEACHED PRESIDENT CLINTON" had done the RIGHT THING and gave the OK to take Bin Laden out prior to 9/11 when the CIA had him in Sniper Range and YOUR CLINTON said NO-O-O...

OBAMA NEVER had Bin Laden killed, it was the DR. in Pakistan that we should be praising ALONG with SEAL TEAM 6 that apparently DOES NOT CARE FOR OBAMA one bit. Maybe Seal tean 6 should have 1 more mission at 1600...

Dotties girl .. semantics ... Seal Team 6 are awesome .. glad they are on our side for two important reason.

First and obvious reason ... they know how to kick serious tail .. as we all know.

Second reason. They do what their Commander and Chief asks them to do when he asks them to do it ... so yes, they pulled the trigger ... but without a direct order from the White House ... Osama would still be breathing ...

Does it take serious brass b***s to be a Navy Seal? You bet it does ...

It took some to give that order, too ... know it.

Dottie Dim Wit...The Seal team could not do a damn thing without the consent and under the direction of the POTUS. They are serving this nation under their CIC, they do not work autonomously, without the order there would have been no action.

Voice - It would not have taken me 3 weeks to make up my mind about taking out OBL. Obama withstood 3 weeks of Hillary's prodding and Biden's refusal before he finally made up his mind ( after he was put on notice that the fact he had OBL in his sights and wavered would cost him the next election).

Pango, we mean no disrespect in so saying, but the fact that you might have made that decision much more rapidly is at least one reason why I prefer to have our current President in the White House.

Taking a life in such a way, at such risk, with such issues involved ... is worth taking ones time ... it is possible ... just possible, mind you... that perhaps ... he thought making a prudent choice in such an important matter more important than winning the next election ... at least we would like to think so ...

We will excuse you Amish Cowboy !!!

We borrow money from China, pay interest on it, ship it over the Pacific.

Then we ship it back to Afghanistan, Iran, and North Korea (China's neighbors) and give it away for free. It's just the way money flows of course!

No need to borrow money, just crank up the presses and print out some more paper!

Already doing that?

Hmm.

Uhoh, I do believe we have been royally screwed by our government. While you argue over which party did it you miss the fact it was both parties. But that's the point, isn't it? Silly muricans.

Hog Lover ... bingo!

The only one making the empty suit in the WH look weak is the empty suit himself. As far as uniting and patriotic your pathetic empty suit doesn't have the words in his vocabulary.

Yet you deny that Obama is funding these Muslim countries, and like all Democraps you fail to talk about the real issue. In other words what the hell are you talking about!!! Stick to the subject or re-read the article....... Moron.

Every president in modern history has funded Muslim countries. Don't try and skew facts, even if Robme gets in office the funding will continue, just as Bush did, Clinton, Bush, Reagan etc etc etc.

Dotties girl (23.1):

You must be kidding. I have NEVER seen one party so determined to NOT work with a president as much as the Repubs have. The only empty suits are the Republitards, not the one in the WH.

Romney/Ryan not the right men!

Hummbird - Seems Obama is the desperate one. Can't spend any time in the Oval Office doing his job because he has to campaign and attend fund raisers. Was bragging today that he finally raised more money than Romney last month. Obama is a desperate failure and will be spending all his time campaigning from now to November to save his big jet and time to play golf. To hell with our country and the ME. The most important thing for Obama is Obama.

What shady deals are you referring to??? yeah thought so.

Obama most certainly isn't the first president to give aid to an Arab country, its been a yearly thing for decades and decades in this country. What is shady about going to the hot spot of the world exactly, even more so with the things that have happened in Egypt these last couple years? Your seeing things that aren't there because of your simple dislike of him.

Be Accountable-1433376 (24.1):

Bingo!!!

Stop being a dumbazz, Dan...

You've polluted your mind with the right-wing bullsh!t and lies.

Dan - I think the only middle east country Obama hasn't visited is Isreal.

Amen Dan! I'm a former Democrat turned Independent after the nomination of Obama is 2008. I do NOT trust the man! His policies have worried me during his first term and I fear what would have happened to our Great Country if the House had stayed in the hands of Pelosi and her give away programs! I supported Hillary Clinton for President but would NEVER vote for Obama!

Reagan gave Bid Laden billions to defeat the russa. We in a mess don't blame pres. for what past did. He only been around 4 yrs. BTW please if you have a mind read up on middle east. From 1967 till now. You'll get some knowledge. I'd say stop aid to all but that makes us enemies of all. And if you think we are go visit.I have been without fear. Liked by most hated by few. We are the beacon. You sitting on your arse and crying makes no mind to me --your like the haters over there. Get up wake up and learn. If you believe all you read in news then you are stupid. More so than the Idiot who wrote it. Can I tell you little story- You are not from here. Get it. We killed them . When you go to SAY Iran guess what --90% of the people can tcace back 4 thousand yrs to where they live. See my point . You maybe if lucky go back 200. Hello . WE a mix and get along but -there no we a mutt race-- which we are. No bother to me. But there don't understand it. The fact you pick on others is what makes us small. Grow up.

Right on Bill, for me it isn't about the money - it's about our people and our best course of action. I would invite most of my neighbors in for tea, but there are some I would not. They don't come to my house and I don't go to theirs, and I'm fine with what they do not being my business or my responsibility as long as they don't screw with me.

1) Borrow money from China.

2) Pay interest on money that we borrowed.

3) Give money away to countries that hate us and are working on nuclear weapons. (North Korea: China's ally and neighbor, who, by the way, China does not help!)

4) Realize that the money we gave away does not help the poor, but winds up in the hands of their dictator.

5) Spend money to defend ourselves from said dictator.

the rinse and repeat of the above cycle must end

He & reid have controlled the budget the past 4 years..===$$16 Trillion in debt! I know that a KOOlaid chugger like you can NOT even count the zeros needed on that number. IT is the ECONOMY stupid!! . Look at the great job being done with the MUSLimBros...Blame Bush, anyone but obama..

We are there ONLY because BOZOhussen -the chosen one, and Over-the-HILL'ry want us there!! He promised 4 years ago to have us out, but sent many more troops...why is any American blood being shed for those in-bred tribal murderers..NO more tax $$$ for those who are not With US..Like LBJ did, this is oabamas Vietnam!!

From the book of love..the devil mohamed said..Qur’an (3:118) – “O you who believe! do not take for intimate friends from among others than your own people, they do not fall short of inflicting loss upon you; they love what distresses you; vehement hatred has already appeared from out of their mouths, and what their breasts conceal is greater still; indeed, We have made the communications clear to you, if you will understand.” This verse not only warns Muslims not to take non-Muslims as friends, but it establishes the deep-seated paranoia that the rest of the world is out to get them.
Qur’an (9:23) – “O ye who believe! Choose not your fathers nor your brethren for friends if they take pleasure in disbelief rather than faith. Whoso of you taketh them for friends, such are wrong-doers” Even family members are not to be taken as friends if they do not accept Islam. (This is the mildest interpretation of this verse from the 9th Sura, which also advocates “slaying the unbeliever wherever ye find them”).

Wake up America..any who believe such hateful ideology s, can never be your friend!!

Meanwhile, the Republicans think war is free. News at 11.

. Reminds me of how the liberals were so glad to be rid of the Shah of Iran in 1978.

Are you totally ignorant of facts and history?

The revolution was unusual for the surprise it created throughout the world:^[16] it lacked many of the customary causes of revolution (defeat at war, a financial crisis, peasant rebellion, or disgruntled military),^[17] produced profound change at great speed,^[18] was massively popular,^[19] and replaced a westernising monarchy with a theocracy based on Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists

How many liberals do you know of that would support any kind of THEOCRACY????

We are mighty close to a theocracy in this country.

the aid to egypt was the buy the military off, to help restrain the islamacists and keep them from going after isreal. its worked very well so far, and might still keep working, since, contrary to the fears of the haters, egypt has yet to invade isreal. :)

How many liberals do you know of that would support any kind of THEOCRACY????

One and his name is Barak Hussein Obama, provided of course that it's an Islamic theocracy.