Pentagon blew $100 billion in Iraq reconstruction...


	Pentagon blew $100 billion in Iraq reconstruction...

TJColatrella

12-14-2008 12:44 AM

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iraq war, kbr, bush, cheney, haliburton, pentagon, rumsfeld, gates, vietnam

TJColatrella says:

It's been a $100 billion dollar failure according to an unpublished Federal Report $100 billion wasted but no $14 billion dollar loan to save our auto industry..more Republican waste hypocrisy and corruption...!

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