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From: jefff@cadovax.UUCP (Jeffery H. Fields)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Fueling the Conflict in Lebanon
Message-ID: <705@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 20:54:20 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 11 20:54:20 1985
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Reply-To: jefff@cadovax.UUCP (Jeffery H. Fields)
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Chris Shaw asks:
>I have some questions.. Who (in Lebanon) has the US been supplying with arms
>in order to "fuel the conflict". I don't mean just selling weapons on the 
>world's arms market, but government-sponsored support.  Agreed, Lebanon is
>a mess, but did the US have a starring role in the conflict? Or did the US 
>just sell popcorn?

Chris, do you remember the US Marines who were killed by an American made
cluster-bomb in Beirut?  The cluster-bomb had landed unexploded in the airport.
It exploded when the Marines on routine patrol stumbled on it.

Fact: In 1982, when Israel first invaded Lebanon, the US was providing Israel
with $7,000,000 per day in economic aid.  I don't know what today's figures are,
but they most certainly are higher.

Fact: Israel spends more than half of the economic aid received from the US on
US-made arms and munitions.

Fact: Israel used the weapons it bought from the US to invade Lebanon.

Thus, when you consider the facts, it follows that the US has effectively given
the Israelis the weapons that have been used to kill thousands of Lebanese, i.e.
the formerly occupying Israelis were the "who (in Lebanon)" that the US has been
supplying with arms.

Furthermore, the US supported the Maronite Christian Faction under the regimes
of the Gemayel brothers.  The Amal are bitter enemies of the Maronites.  So, one
can see how the US threw a lot of combustible material into the flaming
conflicts in Lebanon.

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				Jeff Fields
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