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http://wbal.com/shows/elliott/story.asp?articleid=51443 A great email from Sean Wednesday, November 29, 2006 Bruce, The caller that said described reconstruction efforts in Iraq can simply go to the Army Corps of Engineers website to find that he has been mislead: From page 6 of the Iraqi Reconstruction Report: Mr. Popps [Logistics Director] said it is first important to understand what the rebuilding team inherited. U.S. intelligence knew little about the actual state of Iraq's energy infrastructure and social service network. When the Army Corps of Engineers got on the ground, there was shock: The three regional sewage treatments plants in greater Baghdad did...

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1747605/posts Communication Professor Examines Media Bias in President's Speeches Virginia Tech News ^ | 11/30/06 | Jean Elliott Posted on 12/02/2006 5:28:58 PM CST by LS BLACKSBURG, VA., November 30, 2006 -- Jim A. Kuypers, assistant professor of communication in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech, reveals a disturbing world of media bias in his new book Bush's War: Media Bias and Justifications for War in a Terrorist Age (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2006). Convincingly and without resorting to partisan politics, Kuypers strongly illustrates in eight chapters “how the press failed America in its...

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1733973/posts A LETTER TO JOHN KERRY (from a Marine) Yesterday John Kerry said, "You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well, and if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq" So I wrote him a letter: I am a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps. I am currently on my second tour in Iraq, a tour in which I volunteered for. I speak Arabic and Spanish and I plan to tackle Persian Farsi soon. I have a Bachelors...