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Old 08-01-2014, 01:45 PM
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Senate just approved $225 million more for Israel's Iron Dome. House to vote on it later today. Why even bother? Wonder why they took this up just before the five week recess?
To politically rationalize supporting an oppressive regime enacting Manifest Destiny in Gaza due to generational guilt?

Basically, we empower Israeli entitlement.
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Senate just approved $225 million more for Israel's Iron Dome. House to vote on it later today. Why even bother? Wonder why they took this up just before the five week recess?
Jesus Christ Almighty!

Didn't we just give them $300 million for this just a little while back?
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Iron dome costs $20k per interception and had a 90% hit rate. Info from Wiki.
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Iron dome costs $20k per interception and had a 90% hit rate. Info from Wiki.
So the American taxpayers have to pick up the tab for that?

Why?

We already give them over $3 billion a year.

The are about 6 million Jews in Israel.

So that's the equivalent of handing every Jewish man, woman and child in Israel five crisp hundred dollars bills every year.



That's two thousand bucks for a family of four.

And now we gotta give them more?

How long do the American taxpayers have to play Santa to people who don't even believe in Christmas?
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I suspect our Iron Dome support is research money basically. Star Wars in action.

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I suspect our Iron Dome support is research money basically. Star Wars in action.

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Really?

So everytime Hammas fires a rocket a bunch of scientists in white lab coats do 20K worth of research?
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20k per for a 90% success rate seems cheap.

But I mean, we give them money and get their info.

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20k per for a 90% success rate seems cheap.

But I mean, we give them money and get their info.

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If it's so damned cheap why can't they pay for it?
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I suspect our Iron Dome support is research money basically. Star Wars in action.

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Nope. Iron Dome is theater-based, whereas Star Wars is intended to function against ICBM's. Iron Dome is basically a refinement of the Patriot missile.
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It's just a matter of scale.

Tom, we give money to a lot of folks. Why does Israel get so much? 7 years ago I'd say ask Bush. Now I'd say ask Obama.

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