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Kerry Announces Millions in U.S. Aid for Egypt
ny times ^ | 3/3/2013 | By MICHAEL R. GORDON

Posted on 03/03/2013 1:33:22 PM PST by tobyhill

Secretary of State John Kerry announced Sunday that the United States would provide $250 million in assistance to Egypt after Egypt’s president promised to move ahead with negotiations with the International Monetary Fund over economic reforms.

In a statement issued after his two-hour meeting with President Mohamed Morsi, Mr. Kerry said the aid decision reflected Egypt’s “extreme needs” and Mr. Morsi’s assurance that Egypt would reach an agreement with the I.M.F. after more than a year of talks over a $4.8 billion loan package.

The statement issued by Mr. Kerry noted that he and Mr. Morsi had discussed the need to ensure the fairness of Egypt’s coming elections, but it did not mention any specific political commitments the Egyptian president had made to receive the funds.

Parliamentary elections are scheduled for April. Some opposition groups have said they will boycott the vote because of what they see as an effort by Mr. Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood movement to dominate Egyptian politics.

American officials say that Mr. Kerry asserted that moving ahead with difficult economic changes in Egypt would require a degree of political consensus and was implicitly a promise of some political change.

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: defensebudget; defensecuts; economy; egypt; egyptmb; egyptmbforeignaid; federalbudget; imf; israel; kerry; obama; secstatekerry; sequester; waronterror
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To: tobyhill
When will Dennis Rodman become ambassador to North Korea, carrying secret missile plans with him?
21 posted on 03/03/2013 2:04:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: tobyhill

The muslim brotherhood can buy state of the art tasers now for their religous police squads. Arab Spring has sprung anew.


22 posted on 03/03/2013 2:06:56 PM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: tobyhill
Meanwhile, Egypt unleashes it's new morality police to enforce fundamentalist doctrine.

This aid allows Egypt to continue being dysfunctional. Without aid, they would have had to ensure they created an environment hospitable to foreign tourism and business investment.

23 posted on 03/03/2013 2:12:05 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: BlackElk
If you are impressed by Santa Lurch’s generosity with American tax money...

I don't know where you would have gotten that idea.

...remember with trepidation John F’n Kerry’s “service” in Vietnam (eagerly assisting the North Vietnamese of his god, Ho Chi Minh) just before cuddling up to the Viet Cong “representatives” in his Navy uniform at the Paris Peace Sellout.... er, Paris Peace talks.

Not many FReepers have posted more about that than I have.

24 posted on 03/03/2013 2:12:53 PM PST by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: tobyhill
We are also sending $60 million in “non-military” aid to the Syrian rebels!

What could possibly be wrong with that?

Well.....

(1) “Sequestration” budget cuts.

(2) Various rebel groups have links to al-Qaeda.

(3) If the rebels overthrow Assad, the Islamic Brotherhood will take power in Syria.

25 posted on 03/03/2013 2:14:08 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: tobyhill
Remember, when Kerry says "Aid for Egypt"

Egypt is run by these people:

AKA The Egyptian Nazi Party, AKA The Muslim Brotherhood!


26 posted on 03/03/2013 2:31:31 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: tobyhill

How thoughtful of us. Just the day the Egyptians announced the creation of their “Islamic Morality Police,” who will enforce sharia by beating people with sticks. They hope to get tasers soon, however, so this $250 million will come in handy.


27 posted on 03/03/2013 2:34:17 PM PST by livius
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To: tobyhill

John effin Kerry is in heaven-

he now has a job traveling the globe giving away the money of American taxpayers and being wined, dined and feted for it


28 posted on 03/03/2013 2:42:57 PM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: tobyhill

I’m assuming The New York Slimes is reporting all this with a straight face.


29 posted on 03/03/2013 2:44:23 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Te?xas Eagle)
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To: tobyhill; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Cincinatus' Wife; ...
Now I know how skeptical all you reporters are...  photo Kerry-4.gif about this gift to Egypt--

However, Egyptian President Morsi assures me this money...  photo kerry-5.gif will only be spent on increased security at Jewish Synagogues!

30 posted on 03/03/2013 3:04:38 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: tobyhill; All

“This is America, and in America, we don’t careen from one manufactured crisis to another”.
Remarks of President Barack Obama
Weekly Address
The White House
March 2, 2013


31 posted on 03/03/2013 3:16:13 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: tobyhill

And 250 million would keep the Blue Angels flying for how long?

Answer, until the next election, anyways.


32 posted on 03/03/2013 4:07:18 PM PST by Dartman (Mubarak and Gaddafi are going to look like choirboys when this is over)
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To: knarf

ditto


33 posted on 03/03/2013 5:49:03 PM PST by Taggart_D
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To: tobyhill

And still no GOP noise about zero giving millions to the islamotrash while cutting Americans out with his siesta sequester.


34 posted on 03/03/2013 7:22:59 PM PST by soycd
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To: tobyhill


Hey, Lurch. Go take a balloon ride.
35 posted on 03/03/2013 7:56:37 PM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: KC_Lion

Looks like a popped open Cranium waiting to happen.


36 posted on 03/03/2013 8:10:29 PM PST by MaxMax
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To: tobyhill

Words just fail me on this one.

Insane.....


37 posted on 03/03/2013 8:36:52 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: tobyhill

In the meanwhile, Teresa Heinz got the Ketchup concession for the Cairo bazaars.

Possible transcript of Kerry’s conversation with Morsi:

Kerry: “Brother Morsi: This reminds me of my meetings with the VC and North Vietnamese in Paris. We got all the problems resolved in a friendly spirit. Glad to work with you.”

How close do you think this is to reality?


38 posted on 03/03/2013 8:42:57 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Bon mots
"Kerry Announces Millions in U.S. Aid for Egypt

Protection money.
40 posted on 03/03/2013 9:18:20 PM PST by clearcarbon
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