Taxpayer cash to France
via Iraq?

By Les Kinsolving

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At today’s White House news briefing, WND asked presidential press secretary Scott McClellan about U.S. taxpayer dollars going to pay off Iraqi debt to other nations.

WND: Can you assure us that none of the money paid by U.S. taxpayers to help rebuild Iraq will go to pay Iraqi debts to France and Germany?

McCLELLAN: Well, one, in terms of past debt, we are working with the international community to restructure those debts. And that’s what we will continue to do.

What’s the second part of your question?

WND: The president’s proclamation that marriage is between a man and a woman is believed in strongly by many Episcopalians who, if they withhold contributions to bishops who do not believe this, risk losing their church property. And my question, does the president believe that the U.S. Constitution’s promise of free exercise of religion should not allow confiscation of church property by Episcopal bishops who promote or engage in sodomy or who, in one case, denied the existence of God?

McCLELLAN: I think that those are matters that the church will resolve, the Episcopal Church will resolve. You need to address those –

WND: Doesn’t he believe in free exercise of religion, Scott?

McCLELLAN: I’d address those to the Episcopal Church.

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Les Kinsolving

Les Kinsolving hosts a daily talk show for WCBM in Baltimore. His radio commentaries are syndicated nationally. His show can be heard on the Internet 9-11 p.m. Eastern each weekday. Before going into broadcasting, Kinsolving was a newspaper reporter and columnist – twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his commentary. Kinsolving's maverick reporting style is chronicled in a book written by his daughter, Kathleen Kinsolving, titled, "Gadfly." Read more of Les Kinsolving's articles here.


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