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DESCRIPTION:MilitaryEx is hosting Operation Fire War Profiteers From Congress.\nOur 
 research has data mined 151 politicians who invested their own personal 
 funds in Iraq's no bid war contracts. Military Officer Wives intend to move 
 swiftly to have these corrupt elected officials fired! These bastards 
 literally profited off the blood shed, deaths, dismemberments, 
 disfigurements, suicides and mental disorders inlcuding ptsd due to war 
 zone horrors suffered by our military member husbands. These war profiteers 
 are also directly responsible for the countless deaths and mass slaughter 
 of innocents in Iraq. Not only have the elected officials stolen our 
 American Dreams, they have destroyed the sanctity of our military 
 marriages, they have lied to us and our military members and used our 
 military to kill for the profits of WarBiz, Inc.   We will deal with them 
 one by one and seek for their removal by voting them out of office!\n\n  
 151 Congressmen Derive Financial Profit From War\n\nRalph 
 Forbes\nOpEdNews\nMay 28, 2008\n\nWho profits from the Iraq war? More than 
 a quarter of senators and congressmen have invested at least $196 million 
 of their own money in companies doing business with the Department of 
 Defense (DoD) that profit from the death and destruction in 
 Iraq.\n\nAccording to the latest reports, 151 members of Congress invested 
 close to a quarter-billion in companies that received defense contracts of 
 at least $5 million in 2006. These companies got more than $275.6 billion 
 from the government in 2006, or $755 million per day, according to 
 FedSpending.org, a website of the watchdog group OMBWatch.\n\nCongressmen 
 gave themselves a loophole so they only have to report their assets in 
 broad ranges. Thus, they can be off as much as 160 percent. (Try giving the 
 IRS an estimate like that.) In 2004, the first full year after the present 
 Iraq war began, Republican and Democratic lawmakers-both hawks and 
 doves-invested between $74.9 million and $161.3 million in companies under 
 contract with the DoD. In 2006 Democrats had at least $3.7 million invested 
 in the defense sector alone, compared to the Republicans’ "only" 
 $577,500. As the war raged on, so did the billions of profits-and personal 
 investments by Congress members in war contractors, which increased 5 
 percent from 2004 to 2006. \n\n	\n\nInvestments in these contractors 
 yielded Congress members between $15.8 million and $62 million in personal 
 income from 2004 through 2006, through dividends, capital gains, royalties 
 and interest. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Rep. James Sensenbrenner 
 (R-Wis.), who are two of Congress’s wealthiest members, were among the 
 lawmakers who garnered the most income from war contractors between 2004 
 and 2006: Sensenbrenner got at least $3.2 million and Kerry reaped at least 
 $2.6 million.\n\nMembers of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services 
 committees which oversee the Iraq war had between $32 million and $44 
 million invested in companies with DoD contracts.\n\nWar hawk Sen. Joe 
 Lieberman (IConn.), chairman of the defense-related\nSenate Homeland 
 Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had at least $51,000 invested 
 in these companies in 2006.\n\nSen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), who voted for 
 Bush’s war, had stock in defense companies, such as Honeywell, Boeing and 
 Raytheon, but sold the stock in May 2007.\n\nOf the 151 members whose 
 investments are tied to the "defense" (war)\nindustry, as far as we know, 
 not one of them offered to donate their bloodstained profits to the 
 national treasury to offset the terrible debt they have imposed. Has one of 
 them even offered to donate one cent of their war profits to lessen the 
 debt that increases more than $1 million a minute?\n\n\n\nThese bastards 
 are a partial list of the politicians who make big money off of their 
 personal investments in the war's no bid contracts:\n\n• Sen. John Kerry 
 (D-Mass.) $3,001,006 to $5,015,001\n• Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) $250,001 
 to $500,000\n• Rep. Kenny Ewell Marchant (R-Tex.) $162,074 to 
 $162,074\n• Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.) $115,002 to $300,000\n• 
 Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.) $115,002 to $300,000\n• Rep. Shelley 
 Berkley (D-Nev.) $100,870 to $100,870\n• Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr. 
 (R-Wis.) $65,646 to $65,646\n• Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) $50,008 to 
 $227,000\n• Rep. Sam Farr (D-Calif.) $50,001 to $100,000\n• Rep. 
 Stephen Ira Cohen (D-Tenn.) $45,003 to $150,000\n\nThere never was an exit 
 stategy only lies & war profits. While they profit we pay in higher taxes, 
 cut services & higher gas prices.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/21/18509930.php
SUMMARY:Operation Fire War Profiteers From Congress
LOCATION:San Diego
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/21/18509930.php
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