Thread: [OT] Another heated discussion about the Iraq siutation, war and politics.
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Old February 27th, 2003, 11:22 AM
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Default Re: [OT] Another heated discussion about the Iraq siutation, war and politics.
Urban myths:
US foreign aid financing the 3rd world, is one of the premium urban myths of our times.
While the actual value in USD is great, large parts of it can hardly be described as aid. Also per capita value is less then for most other rich/western countries.
Here you can get a breakdown:

http://www.peacehost.net/mdpc/USAIDvsPoverty.html

I know many of you will claim this link is biased, and you are probably right. But it is still much closer to the truth than what some of you obviously believe.

(Guess my cred is gone forever now, since I promised not to post in this thread again )
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