PUTTING OUR MONEY WHERE OUR MOUTH IS IN THE MIDDLE EAST (SOMEWHAT)

The Bush Administration has decided that we shouldn't give Egypt an extra $130 million dollars a year when it locks someone up for monitoring elections and registering voters. Hmm, I wonder where that idea came from Colin Powell and the Foggy Bottom Bunch or one of those neocon ex-think tankers? Oh well, Foggy Bottom can at least take solace in the fact that the $2 billion annual package to Mubarak's thugocracy is still untouchable - for now.