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2010-09-04 04:00:00
- The New York Times is reporting that the security company Blackwater Worldwide formed a network of 30 shell companies and subsidiaries to get government business after the company faced strong criticism for its conduct in Iraq.
2010-09-04 03:43:10
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2010-09-03 20:40:25
- Something about 21st-century warfare brings out Washington's lust for historical comparison. The moment the combat starts, lawmakers and the national press corps inevitably portray every explosion, invasion, frontline dispatch, political machination and wartime icon as momentous replicas of the past's big moments and Great Men.9/11 was Pearl Harbor. Colin Powell's Iraq presentation at the United Nations was Adlai Stevenson's Cuban Missile Crisis confrontation. Embedded journalists in Afghanistan strutted around like the intrepid Walter Cronkite on a foreign battlefield. George Bush was a Rooseveltian "war president." The Iraq invasion was D-Day. A byproduct of reporters' narcissism, politicians' vanity and the Beltway's lockstep devotion to militarism, this present-tense hagiography ascribes the positive attributes of sanitized history to current events. And whether or not the analogies are appropriate, they inevitably help sell contemporary actions - no matter hoCopyright 2010 Tahoe Daily Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Tahoe Daily TribuneSIROTA: Despite celebration, the Iraq War continuesSeptember, 3 2010 5:40 pm MST
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- The defense secretary seems to be trying to lower expectations for a coming review of war policy.
2010-09-03 20:00:00
- The security contractor created dozens of shell companies or subsidiaries in part to obtain U.S. contracts after it was criticized for its conduct in Iraq, officials and investigators said.
2010-09-03 19:43:08
- The U.N. refugee agency called on European governments to halt deportations of Iraqis, after what it said was at least the third coordinated round of forced returns since April.
2010-09-03 19:15:11
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