US weighing military aid for Lebanon

[babylonsister]

OK, now I'm confused.

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1307917.php/US_weighing_military_aid_for_Lebanon

US weighing military aid for Lebanon

May 22, 2007, 18:11 GMT

Washington - The United States is considering whether to provide additional aid to the Lebanese military as it wages a fierce firefight with Islamic extremists holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp.

US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the Lebanese government has asked the United States for military assistance to fight the Fatah al-Islam group, which has ties to al-Qaeda.

'They have a request in and we're going to take a look at it,' McCormack said.

'This is a very, very brutal group of people that the Lebanese armed forces are dealing with, and they are doing a good job,' he said.

The United States provided Lebanon with about 40 million dollars in military aid in 2006, and so far this year has doled out about 5 million dollars, McCormack said.

Lebanese armed forces have been battling the Islamic extremists since Sunday in violence that has claimed dozens of lives in the camp near Tripoli.
© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Aw geez, just what I didn't want to hear: a proxy war with Syria.

[whistle]

2. Was is the U.S. who rendered Lebanon helpless by sending WMDs to Israel

...of some $100 million last summer. Now they wish to arm Lebanon so they can retaliate. Bush/Cheney's perpetual war policy in action!

[Truthiness Inspector]

4. Perpetual war indeed

but Israel was fighting Hezbollah, not Lebanon, last summer.

[whistle]

6. Right, Hezbollah women, children, the sick and the elderly

[Richard Steele]

7. But not Lebanon......just everyone who lives there. nm

[Solly Mack]

3. Damn. I busted out laughing reading the thread title

[jaxx]

5. Who will they borrow from to pay for this?

Butt out Bush.