Saddam to Swing

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Originally Posted by yesman065

Oh c'mon Dana you know the truth - we help every freakin body all the time. We are, BY FAR, the most generous nation on this planet - period.

Well you have been reading too much propaganda. By percent GNP, the US is way down the list of generous nations. I believe the champions were Scandinavian and France. Something like 80% of American aid only went to 5 countries last I read - Israel, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and Phillippines. Last time I looked, Israel and Egypt accounted for 50% of US foreign aid. Where is all this generosity?

Then it gets worse. Much of the aid is military - thereby returning to the US as military contracts. Generous? Numbers I have seen repeatedly never say that. But myths are easy to promote - such as Saddams WMDs.