Is this true?

[ChasingBlueSky 0]

I tend not to believe chain letters - they are usually sent out by people trying to stir up trouble, lie, etc...

I want to respond back to the person that sent this to me but do not have the time to research if any of this is true since I will be at work quite late tonight - could someone that has some freetime please look this up?

Thanks:



Subject: How they vote in UN

Below are the actual voting records of various Arabic/Islamic
States which are recorded in both the US State Department
and United Nations records:

Kuwait votes against the United States 67% of the time.

Qatar votes against the United States 67% of the time.

Morocco votes against the United States 70% of the time.

United Arab Emirates votes against the U. S. 70% of the time.

Jordan votes against the United States 71% of the time.

Tunisia votes against the United States 71% of the time.

Saudi Arabia votes against the United States 73% of the time.

Yemen votes against the United States 74% of the time.

Algeria votes against the United States 74% of the time.

Oman votes against the United States 74% of the time.

Sudan votes against the United States 75% of the time.

Pakistan votes against the United States 75% of the time.

Libya votes against the United States 76% of the time.

Egypt votes against the United States 79% of the time.

Lebanon votes against the United States 80% of the time.

India votes against the United States 81% of the time.

Syria votes against the United States 84% of the time.

Mauritania votes against the United States 87% of the time.


US Foreign Aid to those that hate us:

Egypt, for example, after voting 79% of the time against
the United States, still receives $2 billion annually in US
Foreign Aid.

Jordan votes 71% against the United States and receives
$192,814,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.

Pakistan votes 75% against the United States receives
$6,721,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.

India votes 81% against the United States receives
$143,699,000 annually

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[FrancoR 0]

Just a few thoughts

Whats the purpose of such a statistic? Trying to find out wich country gives the best value for money concerning votes in the UN?
I certainly hope poor countries can't be influenced that easy, but i have seen the opposite in the last year or so.

In my opinion the whole thing is very unbalanced, no comparison to donations other countries make, no comparision to how many times allies disagree in the UN.

Do a google search and enter the whole sentence in " " you will get a few results, maybe that helps.

If it does not cost anything you are the product.

[ChasingBlueSky 0]

Exactly - I'm trying to see who put what spin on this and why. There are a lot of details lacking in this email, and I want to let the person who sent it out know the rest of the facts.

I posted here in the Corner since I know there are plenty of people here that could get to researching this before I could.

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you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me....
I WILL fly again.....

[vmsfreaky1 0]

All those percentages are probably when these countries also vote against Israel with the same vote.

[kmcguffee 0]

Obviously we can't be accused of trying to buy their vote.

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." Ben Franklin

[bodypilot90 0]

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In my opinion the whole thing is very unbalanced, no comparison to donations other countries make, no comparision to how many times allies disagree in the UN.

the UN as a whole is unbalanced. It's time has past. The oil for food CON is the best example to date. Look at how they pulled out of Iraq.

[rickjump1 0]

This didn't start happening overnight. It's been going on for years. The sad thing is they vote against us on issues that are positive and helpful to the rest of the world. The objective of the UN is to see us go down.

Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

[TomAiello 26]

It might be more helpful to look at the votes by issue.

I'd guess that the vast majority of those "anti-US" votes were actually anti-Israel votes, where the US and Israel were the only two votes on one side of an issue.

I wonder what percentage of total UN resolutions have concerned Israel?

-- Tom Aiello

Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com
SnakeRiverBASE.com

[PhillyKev 0]

Probably has nothing to do with the US votiing record.

Here are the 14 US vetoes of UN resolutins against Israel. and the 24 US vetoes of security council resolution agains Israel.

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/UN/usvetoes.html