Expedia Sends 35,000 Troops to Iraq

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Joining our long list of contextual advertising oddities is this reader-submitted Expedia.com ad residing next to a CNN story about 35,000 American troops receiving deployment notification for late 2007. If the Air Force and the Navy can’t get them there, Expedia is, it seems, happy to help.

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