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[Breaking News] NJ reservist sentenced in Iraq contract schemeTRENTON, N.J. ”” An Army Reserve officer from New Jersey has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for her role in a bid-rigging scam that steered millions of dollars for Iraq reconstruction projects to a contractor in exchange for cash, luxury cars and jewelry.

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[Breaking News] Army to allow lieutenant who refused to deploy to Iraq to resign ...: Report: Dad's complaints about GI's care unfoundedWASHINGTON ”” The father of a soldier who committed suicide in Iraq says he was angry and discouraged that a military inspector general's investigation into the use of unlicensed psychologists in Iraq found the practice did not violate Army regulations. The investigation was instigated by a complaint from Chris Scheuerman, of Sanford, N.C., father of Pfc.

[POLITICO Top Stories] Sunday talk show tip sheet - Dianna Heitz - POLITICO.com: Buchanan answers the question: "Who are they, the neoconservatives?" He quotes a Wall Street Journal article by Max Boot in which Boot states that support for Israel is a "key tenet of neoconservatism" and that Commentary, the American Jewish Congress magazine, is the "neocon bible." Buchanan points out that Israel Lobby neocon Michael Ledeen wrote in his book The War Against the Terror Masters: "First and foremost, we must bring down the terror regimes, beginning with the big three: Iran, Iraq, and Syria." "Stability is an unworthy American mission, and a misleading concept to boot. We do not want stability in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and even Saudi Arabia;

[Breaking News] Attorney: Army to allow 1st officer to refuse Iraq duty to resign: Iraq arrests three antiquities traffickersBAGHDAD ”” Authorities in northern Iraq have arrested three men on charges they were trying to traffic stolen antiquities, including the bust of a Sumerian king, a local army commander said Saturday. The three were arrested in a sting operation after attempting to sell one of the artifacts for $160,000 to an undercover intelligence officer of the Iraqi Army's 12th division in a village southwest of Kirkuk, division commander Maj.

[NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias] Thomas Friedman's Hypocrisy on 'Far Right' Dangerously ...: Let me make it very clear, violence against elected officials is wrong.  That said it is time that the blame for the tone of political discussion be laid at the feet of liberals and the liberal media.  If any politician is harmed they are the ones to blame.  They set the tone.  They started the outrageous personal and over the top attacks.  It didn't start with Bill Clinton, it started with Nixon in 1972 and virtually every republican president since then has been attacked in the most dispicable way.  Who can forget the claims by democrat politicians now in positions of authority who claimed Reagan refused to fund aids research because he wanted gays dead or that Reagan the CIA purposefully addicted ghetto blacks to crack or the White family being paraded around in the media as evidence that Reagan wanted aids victims dead and didn't care about them.

[The New Ledger] Interrogation and the Law | The New Ledger: with Iraq until the inauguration of Blessed President Obama crying that America was ignoring the real war in Afghanistan, only to seamlessly pivot once that cudgel was no longer politically useful and demand that the same group of murdering theocrats who helped stage the deadliest attacks on American soil in our history be allowed to overrun that country again. It comes with the insulated topography within the six walls, so to speak.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Bobo agonistes: The main policy positions I've seen him espouse are (1) support for the Iraq war, (2) support for vouchers/opposition to everything about our current educational system, and (3) concern-trolling about Democratic budget deficits (for ....

[Truthout - All Articles] t r u t h o u t | Army Prisoners Isolated, Denied Right to Legal ...: And Dahr Jamail, an excellent self-made, true independent journalist, keeps going back to the Middle East and literally braving depleted uranium radiation to bring us the other side of the story, the TRUE other side of the story; which, of course, we are not getting and are not going to get from the "imbedded 'journalists'" with the military, the "military-industrial" media and the corporate fascist propaganda machine, all those TRULY in bed with and/or complicit in the True Terrorism, and all those so-called "journalists" who are the true cowards of which you speak.

[Breaking News] Investigators scour bank records in continuing hunt for corruption ...: The Munich-based company said it agreed to pay the money ”” euro5 million ($7 million) annually for 15 years ”” to the United Nations and Transparency International as part of an agreement with the Washington-based World Bank, calling it part of its "ongoing efforts to address the consequences of the bribery scandal."Siemens, which makes products ranging from wind turbines to trams, has been embroiled in a far-reaching corruption scandal and has acknowledged making dubious payments to secure business.

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » Blog Archive » Ron Paul on Iranian nuke site: I'm tired ...: Former Iraqi separatist leader leader Mullah Krekar who has been declared unwanted in Norway, has this week been questioned by the Swiss prosecution authority, in connection with a case of possible financing of terrorism from Switzerland

[Hillary Is 44] Hillary Is 44 » Blog Archive » Days Of Atonement: I’ve made my position on the Emanuel administration’s attempts to crush Democratic primaries pretty plain: Beyond it being a disgusting effort to crush the kind of local democracy Barack Obama used to make Rahm Emanuel president, it also makes Democratic legislative unity even tougher to achieve. Additionally, the aggressiveness of the effort reveals a double-standard: The Emanuel administration that categorically refuses to twist the arms of congresspeople to pass legislation is the same Emanuel administration that is more than happy to break the arms of Democratic primary candidates.

[The Raw Story] The Raw Story » Scandal exposer calls on Congress to defund Blackwater: One savvy, caring ACORN woman tried to meet with Hoochie ALONE for lunch TO RESCUE HER FROM HER ABUSIVE PIMP! Hoochie and O'Beef were egged on in their racist Nazi sex sting by an ADULTEROUS Heritage Foundation media person who was fired from a previous job for using the company credit card for a CALL BOY RING!

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