A new study by a nonpartisan research group shows that lawmakers’ stock holdings in various companies doing business with the Defense Department totals more than $196 million, earning the congress critters millions in profits individually since the start of the war in Iraq.
I believe that this is what’s referred to as a conflict of interest. [...]
U.S. House Blocks $163 Billion for War in Iraq 15 May 2008 The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a plan to spend $163 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan after anti-war Democrats and Republicans who objected to Democratic tactics refused to support the measure. Lawmakers defeated the measure by a 149 [...]
On Friday night, in a national television interview, President Bush directly admitted what we have suspected all along: The White House was deeply and intimately involved in decisions about the CIA’s use of torture.
[deeply involved? they ordered it.]
I am convinced there has never been a more openly corrupt administration in the history of this [...]
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