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chimper Donating Member (142 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-11-08 07:06 AM
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US Lawmakers Heavily Invest in Iraq & Afghanistan Wars.
WAR WHORES: US Lawmakers Heavily Invest in Iraq & Afghanistan Wars.

U.S. lawmakers have a financial interest in military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, a review of their accounts has revealed.

Members of Congress invested nearly 196 million dollars of their own money in companies that receive hundreds of millions of dollars a day from Pentagon contracts to provide goods and services to U.S. armed forces, say nonpartisan watchdog groups.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41893
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