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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

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ORIGINAL: BitaTruble

To be fair to McCain, it's not the same $700 billion. He's not talking about the bailout money ending up in the hands of terrorists, but the annual $700 billion that we spend. It's just a coincidence that the two numbers are the same. I have no doubt that some of that annual expenditure has the possibility of ending up in terrorists hands but I'd rather see evidence of such rather than hear talk about it.

To get even more specific, I think he was referring to the part of our annual expenditure that goes toward imported oil ending up in the hands of terrorists.  But he's wrong even in that.  Only about 15% of our imports come from the Middle East, almost exclusively Saudi Arabia with a small portion from Iraq.  Considering one is supposedly an ally and we occupy the other it's only pointing the finger at our own incompetence.