Veterans Party of America

Foreign Policy

   1.  Our agencies of information gatherers, have told us many things over the last 70 years about events that would affect the United States, but the powers that were and are did not listen to them.  Some of the major blunders were; the raising to power in 1932 of an Austrian who wanted to conquer the world.  Updates to this information were provided in 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1937, 1939, 1940 and 1941.  Yet we avoided getting involved.  Information about Japan and their desire to control everything in the Pacific Ocean was known in 1938, with updates in 1939, 1940 and 1941.  There are even reports on record (released in 1990) that in August of 1941 there was intelligence that Japan might attack the United States, either at Hawaii or on the California coast.

    2.  In the past 100 years, the United States has assisted almost every nation on the planet earth.  Most say that they owe a great debt and gratitude to the United States and yet only one has ever tried to pay us back.  In fact most of the billions and billions of dollars owed to the USA was graciously forgiven with the shake of the hand by one congress or another.

    3.  Now our president has asked congress for an "additional" $87 Billion to rebuild Iraq.  Just prior to the Iraqi Freedom fight, our "friends" the Saudi's requested $30 Million so we could use their air space to protect them from the fleeing Iraqis.  Of course we also paid $14 Million requested by Iran and another $16 Million to others so we could begin the air strike against Iraq.  Our congress with both democrats and republicans voted rather quickly to give the $87 Billion for another country in trouble, but it took them 3 years to come up with $50 million to ease the financial pain of our senior citizens with social security.

    4.  Give foreign aid to only those strategic countries (in order to avoid imminent threat of international instability) and our allied nations.  For economic development purposes we should rely on American businesses, which are interested in doing business with the respective counties.  It is not our responsibility as taxpayers to bail the world out of their economic trouble.  Americans have always given generously to ease the hardships of those in other countries.  Americans can continue to do so through charitable donations anywhere in the world.