Remember This?- "That was the most expensive vote you will have cast."

[Cassandra2010]

In an action that appeared to demonstrate Washington's pique at Yemen for voting against the United States during a crucial U.N. Security Council debate on the gulf crisis, the State Department disclosed that it has slashed aid to the Arab nation from a planned $22 million to less than $3 million.

The cut, disclosed in a letter from the department to Congress, came after Yemen joined Cuba on Nov. 29 in voting against the resolution authorizing force to eject Iraqi troops from Kuwait. After that ballot, according to a published report not disputed by the State Department, a U.S. official told the Yemeni ambassador, "That was the most expensive vote you will have cast."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/fogofwar/archive/post012891.htm

[StarfarerBill]

1. When it comes to vengeance, our memory is long.

When it comes to recognizing our mistakes...not so much.

Edit: spelling

[gcomeau]

4. What?

Not to say your comment is incorrect... but you did realize the article cited in the OP is 19 years old, right? They didn't do this last week or something.

[StarfarerBill]

7. True, but it wouldn't surprise me that we've held Yemen's negative vote against them that long;

especially when they sided with that fount-of-all-evil, Fidel Castro. We can be as petty as any other nation.

[LiberalAndProud]

2. Could you clarify? I don't get it.

[BlueCaliDem]

3. Seems like the U.S. is getting too big for its britches. The arrogance

is akin to that of 1940's Germany. When did America become a dictatorship again?

[pocoloco]

5. The CIA took over in Nov of 1963.

[gcomeau]

6. See post #4 above... -nt

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