Breaking CNN: Evacuation fees for Americans to be waived

[ProSense]

Evacuation fees for Americans being helped to leave Lebanon will be waived, aides to two Republican senators tell CNN.

http://www.cnn.com

Huge explosions rock Beirut

Tuesday, July 18, 2006; Posted: 7:54 p.m. EDT (23:54 GMT)

BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Israeli airstrikes pounded the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital near the airport early Wednesday, lighting up the night with explosions.



http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/18/mideast/index.html

[aquart]

1. Let me guess: they noticed other nations were not charging?

[WCGreen]

2. My God... Our resolute leader bows to public pressure....

How sad they must be in Freeperville...

[DanCa]

5. The freepers must really be confused today

Passing H.R. 810 and not charging the evacuees for a rescue was the moral thing to do.
The Freeper belief system has been shattered.

[baldguy]

3. Randi Rhodes is right: the only time the Bushies do the right thing

is when they're shamed into it.

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. Oh how benevolent of the US Government!

:sarcasm: Is it election time yet? :eyes: I hate republicans! :grr:

[longship]

6. Let's all waive back

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[rug]

7. Bush is waiving fees to evacuate American citizens from a war zone?

What a guy!

[oscar111]

9. i guess the poor were to be left behind

anyone know?

[MADem]

10. No, don't be absurd. No one is EVER left behind on NEOs.

EVER. Unless they refuse to go.

They pay back over time, or it is taken out of the tax refund.

Here's what your GOP congress just did--they had those of US who knew better than to travel in a powderkeg region pay the freight for those who didn't know better. That money is coming out of SOME budget item--either paper for the state department xerox machines, or Grandma's generic cholesterol medicine for Medicare Part D, or maybe the artificial limb adjustment line item at the VA...or maybe the Federal school lunch program, or WIC or who knows what.

But one way or another, WE are now paying.

And gee, those are awfully BIG explosions downtown. One has to wonder if that might not be where all those missiles are cached?????

[Skink]

8. It's actually just a rebate. At tax time they'll take it back.

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[MADem]

11. Yeah, from US--and we weren't stupid enough to head over that way

when the border has been simmering for months, now. But we have to pay for the lunacy of others, while Monkey boy gets some odd "credit" for dipping into OUR wallets...