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They squawk about that the US gov should pay for these evacs........

Except we don't pay for the evacs. The evacuees are billed.

Exactly, and the Dems/MSM are whining that we should pay, so that means the US will end up paying.

And 6 months from now, they will complain that to much abuse took place in the rush.

Like clockwork.

Sorry my friend: the evacuees will not be billed. The story goes a little like this:

The State Deoppartment said that the evacuees had to be billed.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, top Democrat in the House of Representatives, called on the Bush administration not to charge evacuees, saying, "A nation that can provide more than $300 billion for a war in Iraq can provide the money to get its people out of Lebanon."

We asked the U.S. Department of State about this. Maura Harty, assistant secretary of state for consular affairs, said that a 1956 law enacted by the U.S. Congress required the State Department be reimbursed for an action like the evacution from Lebanon. She added that Americans unable to pay could sign a voucher to reimburse the government.

Before the State Department dropped the plan, White House Press Spokesman Tony Snow defended it by saying the government has to charge evacuees because of a 2003 law.

"I dare say that it's something that is causing heartburn for a number of people, but it's the law," he said.

So, your legislators themselves, apparently, cause the uproar. The state department was merely following the law, or if we believe Tony Snow, the Laws.

The Bush administration waved the requirement for evacuees to pay: and nobody seemed to mind.