Israel thread #2

[Audrey2Katrina]

... you're making a mountain out of a pothole.

Not to split hairs but didn't you mean molehill? I mean, one would have to make a crater, not a mountain, out of a pothole.

No hairs split... I was using literary license and did mean "pothole"... playin' with the original bromide using sarcasm to create an even greater difference (dichotomy). I did mean pothole; but thanks.

A2K

[JTD]

Who will supply the troops for the U.N. Force though? Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. are heavily tied up.

[feederband]

What the hell is this,They are saying that U.S CITIZENS in order to be evacuated
they have to fill out forms to repay the U.S. GOVERMENT the cost of evac?

Click the children with helmets link.


http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/ ... index.html

[fwbbreeze]

What the hell is this,They are saying that U.S CITIZENS in order to be evacuated
they have to fill out forms to repay the U.S. GOVERMENT the cost of evac?

Click the children with helmets link.


http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/ ... index.html

"White House spokesman Tony Snow said Tuesday that the payments -- or "reimbursements" -- to the State Department were mandated under the 2003 Foreign Relations Authorization Act passed by Congress"

just following the law I suppose!

fwbbreeze

[feederband]

What the hell is this,They are saying that U.S CITIZENS in order to be evacuated
they have to fill out forms to repay the U.S. GOVERMENT the cost of evac?

Click the children with helmets link.


http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/ ... index.html

"White House spokesman Tony Snow said Tuesday that the payments -- or "reimbursements" -- to the State Department were mandated under the 2003 Foreign Relations Authorization Act passed by Congress"

just following the law I suppose!

fwbbreeze

Crazy if you ask me....I think that law will get changed real quick if they start talking more about it...

[artist]

they are being given commercial rates and those that can't pay will sign a promissory note to pay when they can. Not the best of situations but no one will be denied passage.

[feederband]

Is any other country doing this?

[southerngale]

They would have had to pay to come home eventually anyway. They're in a dangerous place and others are risking their lives to get them out. I'd be shocked if anyone actually complained about having to pay for their way out. I certainly wouldn't! I'd be eternally grateful that people risked their lives to get me out.

[fwbbreeze]

more inflamatory rhetoric from Iran:

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsartic ... rss&rpc=22

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Hizbollah, which claims links to the Lebanese group of the same name, said on Tuesday it stood ready to attack Israeli and U.S. interests worldwide.

"We have 2,000 volunteers who have registered since last year," said Iranian Hizbollah's spokesman Mojtaba Bigdeli, speaking by telephone from the central seminary city of Qom.

"They have been trained and they can become fully armed. We are ready to dispatch them to every corner of the world to jeopardise Israel and America's interests. We are only waiting for the Supreme Leader's green light to take action. If America wants to ignite World War Three ... we welcome it," he said.


fwbbreeze

[feederband]

But I'm sure they have already paid for round trip tickets...Just think of how much they have had to pay just to stay there while this has happened..I'm sure any food and water that is still there is being gouged heavily...

[Janice]

I am sure if they paid for round trip, the airlines will reimburse them for coming back since the airport is not open.

[Brent]

more inflamatory rhetoric from Iran:

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsartic ... rss&rpc=22

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Hizbollah, which claims links to the Lebanese group of the same name, said on Tuesday it stood ready to attack Israeli and U.S. interests worldwide.

"We have 2,000 volunteers who have registered since last year," said Iranian Hizbollah's spokesman Mojtaba Bigdeli, speaking by telephone from the central seminary city of Qom.

"They have been trained and they can become fully armed. We are ready to dispatch them to every corner of the world to jeopardise Israel and America's interests. We are only waiting for the Supreme Leader's green light to take action. If America wants to ignite World War Three ... we welcome it," he said.


fwbbreeze

I seem to remember Saddam and OBL wanting us to attack too, and we all know what happened both times.

[fwbbreeze]

more inflamatory rhetoric from Iran:

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsartic ... rss&rpc=22

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Hizbollah, which claims links to the Lebanese group of the same name, said on Tuesday it stood ready to attack Israeli and U.S. interests worldwide.

"We have 2,000 volunteers who have registered since last year," said Iranian Hizbollah's spokesman Mojtaba Bigdeli, speaking by telephone from the central seminary city of Qom.

"They have been trained and they can become fully armed. We are ready to dispatch them to every corner of the world to jeopardise Israel and America's interests. We are only waiting for the Supreme Leader's green light to take action. If America wants to ignite World War Three ... we welcome it," he said.


fwbbreeze

I seem to remember Saddam and OBL wanting us to attack too, and we all know what happened both times.

I hear ya brent!

[feederband]

I am sure if they paid for round trip, the airlines will reimburse them for coming back since the airport is not open.

Never mind I see the state department has had a travel warning for Lebanon since May..Those people shouldn't have been there anyway...Double charge them...

[Audrey2Katrina]

I'd be shocked if anyone actually complained about having to pay for their way out.

Prepare for a shock, Kelly, they're already screaming bloody murder about it. I wonder how many news outlets have been proclaiming that the vast majority of these US Citizens are either dual-citizenship folks, or Muslims, thousands of whom have sympathy with Hezbollah? Personally, I'm with you--they paid to go over there, they would have had to pay to come back anyway; simply because it's being cut short shouldn't make it the US Taxpayer's tab.

A2K

[Audrey2Katrina]

But I'm sure they have already paid for round trip tickets

That is a valid point. Perhaps something can be arranged with the airlines wherein the reimburse the US Govt. the untendered return trip fee. JMO

A2K

[Audrey2Katrina]

the state department has had a travel warning for Lebanon since May..

Exactly.... again this is getting very little play in the media.... wonder why?



A2K

[Janice]

People need to take some responsibility some times. They went there. Just like a cane. Do people in the resorts that have been wiped out ask the US to pay their fare home since the airports are down. The airports over there are down, so they will be reimbursed for their trip back that they made. So, they have to pay anyway to leave.

[southerngale]

I'd be shocked if anyone actually complained about having to pay for their way out.

Prepare for a shock, Kelly, they're already screaming bloody murder about it. I wonder how many news outlets have been proclaiming that the vast majority of these US Citizens are either dual-citizenship folks, or Muslims, thousands of whom have sympathy with Hezbollah? Personally, I'm with you--they paid to go over there, they would have had to pay to come back anyway; simply because it's being cut short shouldn't make it the US Taxpayer's tab.

A2K

Unreal. I wouldn't risk my life for someone so ungrateful. Of course I've never understood the whole "gimme! gimme! gimme!" mentality.

[Audrey2Katrina]

I've never understood the whole "gimme! gimme! gimme!" mentality.

Roger that!

A2K