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Dennis Kucinich: “The Washington Post reports that nearly $1 billion a year in cash, suspected to include U.S. aid, opium trade receipts…”

On the recordFebruary 26, 2010
The Washington Post reports that nearly $1 billion a year in cash, suspected to include U.S. aid, opium trade receipts, or both, is moving from Afghanistan to Dubai, where friends and family of Afghanistan's President Karzai have multimillion dollar villas. Dubai real estate deals and a number of crooked enterprises connected to the Karzai family have created crony capitalism in a country awash in U.S. cash and U.S. blood. Nearly 1,000 U.S. soldiers have died, and for what? Hundreds of billions spent, and for what? To make Afghanistan safe for crooks, drug dealers, and crony capitalism? Next Thursday I will bring a privileged resolution to this House so that Congress can claim our constitutional right to end this war and to bring our troops home. Please support the resolution.
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Dennis Kucinich
Independent · Ohio
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Feb 26, 2010

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Kucinich addresses the financial corruption linked to U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and calls for an end to the war.

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