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Lawmakers heavily invested in defense


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...and why did the USA invade Iraq?

 

...and why did the rest of the US gov do nothing about the invasion???

 

one guess...

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080403/ap_on_go_co/congress_defense_investments

 

WASHINGTON - Members of Congress have as much as $196 million collectively invested in companies doing business with the Defense Department, earning millions since the onset of the Iraq war, according to a study by a nonpartisan research group.

 

Not all the companies in which lawmakers invested are typical defense contractors. Corporations such as PepsiCo, IBM, Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson have at one point received defense-related contracts, notes the report by the Washington-based Center for Responsive Politics...

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