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The U.S. is engaged in a bloody war in Iraq for the purpose of eliminating the remnants of a terrorist regime, foreign terrorists, and bringing democracy to Iraq and the region. It is a big gamble that has put radical Islam on the defensive around the world. But shocking evidence demonstrates that controversial former U.S. Marine and former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter, who now writes for the anti-American Arab "news" organization Al Jazeera, was involved in a controversial effort to stop the war by enlisting prominent personalities in a "peace" campaign.

Investigators from a Massachusetts district attorney's office are looking into the possibility of launching a criminal case against defrocked priest Dozia Wilson, who had a long history of sexually abusing young boys while working in both the Albany and Boston dioceses. Interest in the case by the Suffolk County district attorney's office was prompted by a civil complaint lodged by alleged clergy sex abuse victim Joseph Woodward against Wilson. Woodward's attorney, John Aretakis, recently received a request from Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley to have his client tell investigators how he was allegedly sexually abused by Wilson as a...

Attorney John Aretakis said, "The Albany County politicians find it in their own self interests to protect priests whether they're pedophiles or predatory or not, and Bishop Hubbard." Scathing remarks from attorney John Aretakis, who is most known for representing victims of clergy sex abuse. Now, he's coming out attacking Albany law enforcement, saying people like Police Commissioner John Nielsen and District Attorney Paul Clyne are defying law and order to protect Bishop Hubbard and other priests affiliated with the Albany Catholic Diocese. Aretakis said, "Where I'm alleging there has been corruption is with the upper echelons of the police...