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How they vote in the UN

Apr 17, 2004 2:44AM PDT

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Below are the actual voting records of various Arabic/Islamic States which are recorded in both the US State Department and United Nations records:

Kuwait votes against the United States 67% of the time.
Qatar votes against the United States 67% of the time.
Morocco votes against the United States 70% of the time.
United Arab Emirates votes against the U. S. 70% of the time.
Jordan votes against the United States 71% of the time.
Tunisia votes against the United States 71% of the time.
Saudi Arabia votes against the United States 73% of the time.
Yemen votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Algeria votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Oman votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Sudan votes against the United States 75% of the time.
Pakistan votes against the United States 75% of the time.
Libya votes against the United States 76% of the time.
Egypt votes against the United States 79% of the time.
Lebanon votes against the United States 80% of the time.
India votes against the United States 81% of the time.
Syria votes against the United States 84% of the time.
Mauritania votes against the United States 87% of the time.

US Foreign Aid to those that hate us:
Egypt, for example, after voting 79% of the time against the United States, still receives $2 billion annually in US Foreign Aid.
Jordan votes 71% against the United States and receives $192,814,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.
Pakistan votes 75% against the United States receives $6,721,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.
India votes 81% against the United States receives $143,699,000 annually

Perhaps it is time to get out of the UN and give the tax savings back to the American workers who are having to skimp and sacrifice to pay the taxes.

Now they want to cut oil production. We should cut aid to them by 50% to start.

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I could not find anything to disprove it at snopes and found several similiar copies on the web, none at major news sites. It would not surprise me if it is true but I am not making that claim. I tend to agree with the ending statements though.

I really question the need to send aid to India. We're sending them jobs by the boat load. If people in India need aid let them get it first from the ones that now have jobs.

I also believe that all foreign aid needs to be privatized, let those with the desire to provide aid provide the funds for it as well. How could anyone think it is just to take from an american's earnings against their wishes and send it to countries like those on this list?

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