Date published: 2006/09/25
The BBC says:
President George W Bush has called on US companies to throw their weight behind rebuilding efforts in Lebanon.
His comments came as it was announced that US agency Overseas Private Investment Corporation and private bank Citigroup are to invest $160m (£84m).
The public-private partnership is offering the capital to Lebanese small and medium-sized companies.
It comes on top of the $250m (£132m) in aid pledged by the White House. Mr Bush said he wants Lebanon to "flourish".
So the US helps bomb Lebanon "back to the stone age" one day (it provided bombs to Israel exactly for this purpose) and then throws a few peanuts in its direction the next. And let's see how much of this alleged aid ends up in Lebanon being used for reconstruction and how much ends up in the back pockets of the friends of Mr Bush and Mr Cheney.
_________________________________________________________
All material not included from other sources is copyright cambridge2000.com.
For further information or questions email: info [at] cambridge2000 [dot] com
(replace "[at]" with "@" and "[dot]" with ".").