If true, this is an atrocity committed by BHO:
Obama Erases Pro-Democracy Money for IranI wonder....Could it be that BHO is concerned that speaking out for the freedom activists in Iran might lead to people understanding that GWB had actually tried to help those Iranians seek more freedoms?
Friday, June 19, 2009 2:40 PM
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
Even as Ayatollah Khamenei blasted the United States for fomenting unrest in a defiant Friday prayer address in Tehran, President Obama has kept silent, focusing instead on domestic policy.
Obama spent more time with TV personality Stephen Colbert, taping a segment for a comedy show, than he did addressing the turmoil in Iran this week.
Newsmax has learned that the Obama administration also has zeroed out funding for pro-democracy programs inside Iran from the State Department budget for fiscal 2010, just as protests in Iran are ramping up.
Funding for pro-democracy programs began in 2004, when Congress earmarked $1.5 million of the State Department budget for educational, humanitarian, and non-governmental organizations and individuals inside Iran to support the advancement of democracy and human rights in Iran.
The funding ramped up dramatically two years later, when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice requested $75 million for pro-democracy programs. More than half of the $66.1 million Congress finally appropriated went to expand U.S. government-funded Persian language broadcasting services at Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
But no money has been earmarked for such programs in the administration's fiscal 2010 foreign operations budget request. Congressional sources told Newsmax they doubted that a Democrat-controlled Congress would add it when the budget comes before a committee next week.
Controversy has surrounded the programs from the start, with pro-regime lobbying groups, such as the National Iranian-American Council urging the State Department to cancel the funding....
After all, one of BHO's tactics is slamming and blaming the Bush administration all the time.
Just sayin'.
Mike's America, who posted at Flopping Aces on the above article from Newsmax says:
Need I remind readers that Obama recently pledged $900 million in assistance to Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip?
It would be as if President Reagan had terminated support to democracy activists behind the Iron Curtain in the 1980’s and handed it over to the secret police who were enslaving the nations of Eastern Europe.
2 comments:
Isn't it ironic that the Democratic Party controlled Congress, in conjunction with the Democrat Obama Administration has cut funds for Democracy education in Iran exactly as a Democratic revolution threatens to break out in Iran.
It's almost as if the Democrats don't really believe in Democracy.
But, I guess we've been saying that for a long time.
As a lifelong member of the Democratic party, I will once again say what I have been saying since 2004; I do not feel my party represents what I believe in.
And Obama is cutting missile defense at the exact moment that the North Koreans are preparing to launch a missile aimed at Hawaii.
Does the man just hate this country that much?
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