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Obama to Announce Economic Plan for Middle East
Daily Caller ^

Posted on 05/18/2011 10:41:38 PM PDT by Paul8148

President Barack Obama is set to announce a government-directed plan for economic development in the Middle East that emphasizes the role of Western multinational organizations, but that also sidelines the role of companies, ignores the new democracy in Iraq and downplays regional cultural, tribal and religious practices.

“We’re going out of a decade of great tension and division, and now, having wound-down the Iraq war and having taken out Osama bin Laden, we’re turning the page to a positive future for the United State in the region,” said a senior administration official during a 25-minute press briefing on Wednesday that did not include any mention of Islam, the tribal cultures of the region, democracy in Iraq, or the word “company.”

The plan, which Obama will include in his Thursday speech on Middle East policy at the Department of State, calls for at least $2 billion in debt-relief and loan guarantees to be delivered to Egypt, Tunisia and other countries via non-profits, funding agencies and universities.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/18/obama-to-announce-major-plan-for-economic-development-of-middle-east-thursday/#ixzz1Mm0s1sPx

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arabspring; egypt; foreignaid; mideastporculus; obamaganda
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1 posted on 05/18/2011 10:41:41 PM PDT by Paul8148
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Yesssssss!!!!! So we're finally getting serious with them.

Step One: Destroy their economies, too. Now that's something he has a proven track record with.

2 posted on 05/18/2011 10:47:17 PM PDT by FredZarguna (It looks just like a Telefunken U-47. In leather.)
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To: Paul8148

Is Zer0 a glutton for failure, or does he just love the smell of burning money?


3 posted on 05/18/2011 10:50:05 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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Oh, come on - it’s gotta be a put-on, right?

I mean, this guy could make the Garden of Eden wither up and die, and he’s gonna tell someone how to turn desert into garden????

Given that he’s (very regrettably) the President of the United States, he might at least consider sharing his “economic genius” with us, first.


4 posted on 05/18/2011 10:50:31 PM PDT by Jack Hammer (e)
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To: Paul8148

Even libs have to be scratching their heads about this one.


5 posted on 05/18/2011 10:51:31 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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THE HOUSE NEEDS TO DEFUND THIS IMMEDIATELY !!!!!!!

AAAAAAHHHHHH !!!!!!!!

Anyone with me on this ? Do we want to borrow more money and give it to our enemies in the mideast ?????????

I am emailing my Congressman now...


6 posted on 05/18/2011 10:55:17 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (Huguenot)
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LOL! So he is going to do to the Middle East what he has done to us? Sheesh, Reagan must be spinning in his grave; for all of the blood and treasure we expended in trying to save the Middle East from Marx, we are the ones who finally give it to them. Even in his wildest fantasies Lenin himself could have never envisioned this: The United States takes the lead in completing the world revolution.

I keep having this mental image of Obama standing on a bombed Israeli bus, ala Denzel Washington in Training Day, screaming "Jimmy Carter ain't got nothin' on me!"

7 posted on 05/18/2011 10:56:09 PM PDT by flying Elvis ("In...War, the errors which proceed from a spirit of benevolence are the worst" Clausewitz.)
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Oh goodie, he is going to give the ME what he gave the United States, a total disaster.


8 posted on 05/18/2011 10:57:12 PM PDT by Sea Parrot (Being an autodidact, I happily escaped the bureaucratization of intellect)
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"Do we want to borrow more money and give it to our enemies in the mideast ?????????"

It's okay. China will loan us the money to give away.

Our kids and grandkids will pay it.

9 posted on 05/18/2011 11:01:39 PM PDT by blam
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Obama wants to spend or borrow more to give billions to countries and people who hate Americans and want our coutry to be destroyed. Ugh!

He seems not to be satisfied on the job he has already done in nearly destroying our US economy and now is looking for more sink holes for US tax dollars and US debt obligations. We are so messed up.


10 posted on 05/18/2011 11:04:10 PM PDT by RicocheT
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NASA’s new mission?

To explore strange worlds, to seek out new life forms, to boldly go where no one but a muslim has gone before. ...


11 posted on 05/18/2011 11:53:29 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Every day we now throw away things people will kill for after TEOTWAWKI)
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To: FredZarguna

So a bunch of Democrat busybodies are going to push liberal economics on the Middle East That’s going to go over really well in sharia economies with their loopy religious loopholes, and in unique oil-based economies.


12 posted on 05/19/2011 12:02:35 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: Paul8148; pandoraou812
“We’re going out of a decade of great tension and division, and now, having wound-down the Iraq war and having taken out Osama bin Laden, we’re turning the page to a positive future for the United State in the region,” said a senior administration official...

Wow! This is amazingly delusional even for 0bummer and his cabal. He really thinks it's all over and we will all just join hands and go skipping into the future singing "I'd like to buy the world some coke." He seems to think he's President of the world too. Wow!

13 posted on 05/19/2011 12:12:13 AM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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“He seems to think he’s President of the world too.”

Egypt can only hope that he grants them a waiver on his economic advise.


14 posted on 05/19/2011 12:39:01 AM PDT by haroldeveryman
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To: Paul8148

“via non-profits, funding agencies and universities.”

$2 Billion more of YOUR money, much of which will make right back in to Democrat campaign coffers for 2012.

Will the sheeple EVER figure it out?


15 posted on 05/19/2011 1:03:09 AM PDT by tcrlaf (You can only lead a lib to the Truth, you can't make it think...)
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To: Iron Munro
To explore strange worlds, to seek out new life forms, to boldly go where no one but a muslim has gone before. ...

Does that involve the north end of a south bound goat...enquiring minds seek to know....?

16 posted on 05/19/2011 1:05:56 AM PDT by spokeshave (Obamas approval ratings are so low, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the USA.)
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So is this ‘offering’ a bounty for the murders of Christians and Jews in the region? Why yes. It is.
Will the buzzard even MENTION the muslim purge of Copts in Egypt? Why no. He won’t.


17 posted on 05/19/2011 1:27:42 AM PDT by MestaMachine (If you want to pillage,plunder,destroy, blaspheme,or defile, become a muslim, or name yourself obama)
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To: spokeshave

I love your tagline!


18 posted on 05/19/2011 1:31:21 AM PDT by MestaMachine (If you want to pillage,plunder,destroy, blaspheme,or defile, become a muslim, or name yourself obama)
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To: TigersEye

“I’d like to buy the world some coke.”

THAT is a literally true statement if I ever saw one!

“He seems to think he’s President of the world too”

How about emir of the rising caliphate which he is quite literally responsible for? A lofty goal for a muslim pos.


19 posted on 05/19/2011 1:36:24 AM PDT by MestaMachine (If you want to pillage,plunder,destroy, blaspheme,or defile, become a muslim, or name yourself obama)
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To: Paul8148

this bastard needs to be impeached


20 posted on 05/19/2011 1:44:01 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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