Posted on 10/20/2023 9:28:03 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s staff confirmed Friday that he is asking Congress for much greater aid to Ukraine by hitching it to a smaller and more popular spending request for Israel after Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1,400 people in a surprise attack this month.
Biden on Thursday night used his second primetime Oval Office address since taking office to urge passage of the combined package, which the White House confirmed Friday morning would be $14.3 billion for Israel — just a quarter of the $61.4 billion he’s seeking for Ukraine.
Another $30.1 billion would go to various other projects, bringing the total to nearly $106 billion.
The smaller requests include $9.15 billion in humanitarian aid, of which Biden’s aides said a yet-to-be-determined amount would go to aid Palestinian civilians affected by Israel’s expected invasion of Gaza, where about 200 hostages including some Americans remain held by Hamas
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Hey Tex, you might want to look around. They're here. They're here in large numbers. They want you dead...here. Not over there. More come here every day now. We are expending our treasure over there while leaving our backdoor wide open. If you die at the hands of an islamist, it will happen right there in West Texas.
We are not the world’s policeman.
Who do you want to be the world’s policeman?
And there is no such thing as Fortress America anymore in the era of cyberterrorism and high-tech weaponry.
I guess he’s testing out the theory that we can fight more than one war at the same time.
Joe has such faith in the theory that he’ll be inviting China to make a move on Taiwan.
And if Fortress America were strong enough, any nation playing "world policeman" would keep their distance. So I really don't care which nation(s) want that role.
I agree. Both need removal.
“$14.3 billion for Israel ... $61.4 billion he’s seeking for Ukraine. Another $30.1 billion would go to various other projects”
How about No, No, and No?
Shut and go make a sammich wench.
What kind of sandwich would that be, fustilugs?
Bravo! Great comment!
T/Y
“… Mideast wars don’t destroy Islam. They only send them to the West.
The longer the war, the more refugees for us.…”
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THIS^^
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