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Posted on July 7, 2006 by Bob

From the Southern Poverty Law Center: Lowered enlistment standards lead to white supremacists serving in Iraq.

Results: Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad.  And hundreds of racists with military training and the intention to use it… back home in the U.S.A.

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