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2006/1/1

Pentagon Contractor Paid Muslim Scholars for Propaganda

@ 10:53 PM (90 months, 24 days ago)

A contractor for the Pentagon has been paying Sunni religious scholars in Iraq for assistance with its propaganda effort.

The Lincoln Group, a public-relations company in Washington, was told by the Pentagon to identify religious leaders that would aide in producing messages targeted to the Sunnis in the Anbar Province.

Note: The Lincoln Group is the same company that the Pentagon used to help plant stories by American troops in Iraq newspapers.

Muslim Scholars Were Paid to Aid U.S. Propaganda

Bush Shows Off His Boo-Boo

@ 08:34 PM (90 months, 24 days ago)

So let me see if I've got this straight.  Today, idiot son visited paid a visit to some of our injured soldiers.  During his visit, he shows off his "injury" from cutting brush on his ranch.

How insulting is that?  These soldiers were courageous enough to go into combat when they country asked them to.  That is something that Idiot Son himself was not willing to do, once bragging to his professor at Harvard Business School about using Poppy Bush's name to get out of Vietnam.

He goes to visit injured soldiers, and has the nerve to complain about an injury he got on his ranch, while cutting down brush?

President Bush makes a few remarks after visiting wounded soldiers at Brooke Army Medical Center, Sunday Jan. 1, 2006, in San Antonio, Texas. He has a cut on the left side of his forehead from cutting down brush on his ranch and joked to the soldiers that he, too, was injured.