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Steel City Slim Donating Member (410 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-05 10:16 AM
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"Pork Laden" Iraq Bill
Just when you thought it might be impossible for the Bush administration and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to stoop any lower, they have sunk to a new depth. They are now, in the well-chosen words of one member of the U.S. House, "using America's fighting men and women as human shields to pass pork-laden legislation."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3197
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-05 10:18 AM
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1. the whole purpose of Iraq is further redistribution and concentration
of wealth, so why not load it with pork?
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-05 10:26 AM
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2. Redistribution of wealth from the Poor to the Better-Offs. n/t
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-05 10:29 AM
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3. you got it, partly
It's to the super wealthy from everyone else.
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-05 12:07 PM
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Truly - Like a Tsunami!!
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-05 12:07 PM
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6. Truly - Like a Tsunami!!
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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-05 10:40 AM
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4. Pork Laden
Isn't he Bin Ladens cousin?
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cascadiance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-05 10:44 AM
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5. Yah... I think his mother converted to Christianity so they...
named the kid this as punishment...
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