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TortoiseDream
01-08-2010, 10:58 PM
I'm debating a person on Iran and I need, quickly, a list of dictatorships in the Middle East that the US supports.

Sorry if this is in the wrong area, I just know the most people view this subforum and I need a quick response. Mods feel free to delete it or move it when I'm done. Thanks!

TortoiseDream
01-08-2010, 11:07 PM
bump. please this won't take long.

Toureg89
01-08-2010, 11:16 PM
pull up a government list of all foreign aid to countries in the middle east.

and check it against a UN list for countries that have less than average human rights track records.

Toureg89
01-08-2010, 11:27 PM
quick google searches yield:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL32260.pdf
aid given to: israel, egypt, jordan, lebanon, and the palestinians.

and i know for a fact morocco has gotten significant aid through out the year, and through the the quasi military support in Yemen, if that airstrike was coordinated with their government.

and this only dates back to 2003is.

also, pakistan, afghanistan, and iraq arent included, but i know they get helluva lot of support

and saudi arabia in the past...shit they still have a lot of our war material from the desert storm

http://www.hrw.org/en/middle-eastn-africa/saudi-arabia

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/12/29/morocco-address-unfair-convictions-mass-terror-trial

http://www.hrw.org/en/middle-eastn-africa/morocco/western-sahara

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/12/21/yemen-asylum-seekers-run-gauntlet-abuses

http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2009/12/15/name-unity-0

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/12/26/israelgaza-one-year-after-hostilities-abuses-unpunished

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/12/21/afghanistan-investigate-death-custody

http://www.hrw.org/en/middle-eastn-africa/jordan

http://www.hrw.org/en/middle-eastn-africa/egypt

http://www.hrw.org/en/middle-eastn-africa/saudi-arabia

this stuff is REALLY EASY if you take a few minutes to look for it.

i would say pretty much anybody who the gov. gives aid to, is a who's who for undemocratic, if not despotic, countries.

from pistols for the colombian LE to fight drug cartels, to aid given to israel to suppress palestinians.

South Park Fan
01-09-2010, 12:11 AM
Pretty much every country there except Iran.