Saturday, June 27, 2009

Did Our parliament know about these gifts ?

The state department in the United States of America has issued its report about the gifts the Bush administration received from the foreign countries in year 2008 as it is the rule, this is normal thing in civilized democratic country. Now the report includes the gifts that were accepted by the Bush administration from around the world from Germany to Gulf to Israel to Africa. Of course the gifts are accepted because "non-acceptance would cause embarrassment to donor and U.S. Government." !!
You will be very sad to know that the most expensive gifts come from our region especially from Libya's Qaddafi who gave a diamond ring to Condi !! It seems that he wanted to restore the Libyan-American relations by all ways regardless of how much it will cost him !! Why he would care , it is the money of the people after all.
I must hint out all those gifts are handed to the US government by law , yes that diamond ring did not end in Condi jewelry box by the end of the day !!
Because I am curious I wanted to know what our country or rather our regime had presented to the Bush administration from gifts taking in consideration that the relations between Mubarak's regime and the Bush administration were not that good.
Curiosity was not bad because I found that Egyptian officials did give gifts to American administration officials , of course you won't read about this in our media because speaking about the army and its commander in chief is a taboo;)
  • On 3/4/2008 field Marshal Hussein Tanatawi ,the commander in chief of the Egyptian army and our defense minister gave vice president Dick Cheney a gift of silk and wool Egyptian carpet with the Isfahan patterns with estimated value of $1,050 and it is currently in the archive
  • On 3/4/2008 field Marshal Hussein Tanatawi ,the commander in chief of the Egyptian army and our defense minister gave Mrs. Lynn Cheney , the wife of Dick Cheney a gift a gold scarab bracelet with three blue stones with estimated value of $750 and it is currently in the archive
Ok let me be straight that I do not have any doubt that this Egyptian carpet was made by oriental weavers and I understand that field marshal Tanatawi gives Cheney a present from Egypt but I do not get his gift to Mrs. Cheney with my all respect , already I do not think that Cheney should be given anything as a gift in the first place for what he has done in the region.
Moving to Condi ,we will find the following :
  • On 25/3/2008 field Marshal Hussein Tanatawi ,the commander in chief of the Egyptian army and our defense minister gave the honorable Condoleeza Rice a gift of 18k yellow gold filigree bracelet with scarab design with estimated value of $950 and it is pending transfer to General Services Administration.
Why would the commander in chief give Condi a gift in the first place ??
Of course this is in year 2008 , we do not know how much was spent on gifts for the Bush administration in the previous 7 years not to mention we do not know how much is spent on gifts given for foreign countries whether now or the past.
Thank God our regime represented in year 2008 by field marshal Tanatawi did not spend too much money on the gifts like other Arab countries.
It is sad to know the Arab countries paid too much for those war criminals !!
This is the people's money , I hope these Arab regimes think for one second that this is not their money but the people's money.

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