The Bush administration’s new budget includes a $1.2 billion, 30-year loan to renovate the aging United Nations headquarters and build a new annex, although U.N. officials expressed disappointment that Washington will charge interest on the loan.
at least he got that part right, quit just giving money to the pack of thieves
The loan was part of a $31.5 billion foreign-operations budget request released Monday that also includes major new funding for the fight against AIDS and a revamped U.S. foreign-aid program targeting poor countries that implement political and social reforms. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said yesterday the loan request, contained in the foreign-operations account of President Bush’s proposed fiscal 2005 budget, was a "practical way to move forward" with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s plan to renovate and modernize the U.N. headquarters.
leave it to state to pull something like this; why the hell are WE trying to buy our way into THEIR good graces?!?! !@#%#$%^@#$!%@##$%^*%^*!!!
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