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    I'm furious about my squandered nation.

    Tuesday, February 27, 2007

    Amerikkka won't pay poor mothers, but will give "aid" to nuclear bomb holding, terrorist supporting state of Pakistan

    The United States has given Pakistan more than $10 billion in the five years since the Sept. 11 attacks but there is little accountability for how the money is spent and it has afforded Washington little leverage over Islamabad, researchers said on Monday. A report by two experts with the Center for Strategic and International Studies has highlighted doubts about the effectiveness of the Bush administration's strategy of enlisting Pakistan as a front-line ally in trying to combat al Qaeda and resurgent Taliban militants. U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney visited Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday to urge Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to take tougher action against militants on his side of the lawless border, where U.S. commanders say radical fighters are sheltering and training.
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    How it works.
    Billions of tax payer dollars granted to terrorist harboring Pakistan are used to buy weapons from US corporations.
    It's just another way of forcing American tax payers to pay fabulously wealthy "defense" contractors for doing nothing but escalating violence and fomenting war.

    The blowback from this game with Pakistan could come in the form of a mushroom cloud. Pakistan, unlike Iraq has the nuclear bombs.

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