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Chuck Hagel has announced that several more Congressional Medals of Honor (CMOH) will be awarded next week in a White House ceremony. John "Swift Boat" Kerry-Heinz will be awarded the medal belatedly for his heroic actions when working with the CIA in Cambodia Christmas 1968. As commander of the boat, Swift Boat John personally manned the 50 caliber machine gun on the bow of the swift boat when his lone swift boat was attacked by a larger force. He, alone after most of his crew was incapacitated (doped or drunk), sunk 15 - 20 attacker boats and then captained his...

Prime minister Vladimir Putin was proudly on hand today as young Barry Soetero accepted the Order of Lenin medal from the newly reconstituted Union of European Soviet Socialist Respublics as well a highly respected Komsomol(VLKSM) achievement badge...(clip) THe VLKSM stands for (translated of course) the "All-Union Communist Youth Organization". also known as the Komsomol, it was an organization for young men and women that acted as a bridge between the Young Pioneers and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This type of badge was an award for excellent participation or contribution to the VLKSM. Lenin, of course, is the...

A new "elite interrogation unit", that President Barack Obama has appointed to quiz terrorism detainees, will apparently be run by CBS News anchor Katie Couric, rather than the Central Intelligence Agency. If the report from anonymous sources proves accurate, the former NBC "Today" hostess, would head up the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, or HIG, under the president's National Security Council. Detainee-questioning sessions would be filmed before a live studio audience in Burbank, California. "The president wants to ensure that these folks receive all the protections the U.S. Constitution affords other citizens," said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. "We can't...

PESHAWAR: Tehran warned the United States against attacking Iran over the nuclear issue on Tuesday and asserted that such a move would jeopardize the global economy. “The US will not mistake Iran as Iraq and invade,” Mohammad Hassan Imani, the consul-general of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Peshawar, told reporters during an Iftar party at his residence. He said that an American invasion of Iran would drive the price of oil per barrel close to $150. “The Iranian people are fully committed to the government in Tehran,” he said. He said that any US attack on Iran should be...