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$300 Billion Down the Tubes: Shocking Wasteful Spending on Weapons Systems

By Nick Penniman, American News Project
Posted on June 14, 2008, Printed on December 1, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/87843/

The Pentagon spends hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons systems, but our troops still aren't getting what they need. It's a scandal of enormous proportions that involves deceptive corporations and complacent government officials. But the biggest problem of all is that the people in Washington who could fix it continue to ignore it.

Nick Penniman is the director of American News Project.

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