IT'S NOT ONLY BRIBERY.... I had been intending to address this generally very uninformed debate at some point, but Jacob Hornberger has saved me the trouble:
Horrors! Sen. Edward Kennedy has thrown the Washington establishment into turmoil by making the shocking observation that the Bush administration is using U.S. foreign aid to bribe foreign governments to support its occupation of Iraq. "My belief is this money is being shuffled all around to these political leaders in all parts of the world, bribing them to... [The Light of Reason]
Naturally I'm completely opposed to all foreign aid. If individual citizens want to donate money to some foreign country, it's their business, but the Feds' foreign aid programs are illegal, immoral, and counterproductive.
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