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6 Point 6 Billion Dollars

$6.6 billion as if mr. obama’s assassination of the unarmed & defenseless, bin laden, wasn’t enough of a thorn in ex-president w’s side, auditing investigators have released information detailing the MISSING $6.6 BILLION DOLLARS that the geniuses at our pentagon sent as a part of a $12 billion in total, cash airlift, to “post-war iraq” in 2004--- this supposedly misplaced money was iraq’s--- taken from iraqi asset’s & the sale of oil during the war that also had “ended” at this point in time--- this debt was to be paid back with money drawn directly from our pockets, if you are an american tax payer. as if you yourself cannot think of thousands of ways which this “largest theft of funds in national history” could have been used to help our desperate & suffering domestic population, who continues to be hurt by cuts to services which are needed to better our lives, ( but instead are drained from us, used only to fund military actions all over the world as we, the declining policeman, attempts to keep control of what is so very obviously slipping out of our grasp by beating every last resisting entity over the head with our baton)--- consider that with this money that was lost, “is the equivalent of the amount needed to run the Los Angeles Unified School District or the Chicago Public Schools for a year”--- yes, think of all the teachers being laid off in our country because of our inability to put the education of our children first--- & while you’re at it, think of being the richest country in the world, still--- without universal health care. mad?

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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