Military To Pay Millions To Promote "Positive" Iraq News Coverage...

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U.S. military leaders in Baghdad have put out for bid a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for extensive monitoring of U.S. and Middle Eastern media in an effort to promote more positive coverage of news from Iraq.

The contract calls for assembling a database of selected news stories and assessing their tone as part of a program to provide "public relations products" that would improve coverage of the military command's performance, according to a statement of work attached to the proposal.

Expect heavy spin leading up to mid-term elections, current gas price decreases will not be enough to allow GOP to keep the house and/or senate from going to Dems in November.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/08/31/military-to-pay-millions-_n_28441.html

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1. Watch all the latest success stories coming in from Iraq shortly

Specifically designed for repug talking points -- Limbaugh - Hannity surely to spread the good news... got to hand to them, invent the news, then deliver it in time for supper...

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3. Brain injuries?? - there's an election coming up soon son, prioritize?

GOP ain't got sh*t to run on...

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2. while funds for the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center are HALVED?

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/283063_iraqinjuries30.html

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Brain-injury funding may be cut
Ailments on the rise for U.S. troops at war
By JAY PRICE
THE (RALEIGH, N.C.) NEWS & OBSERVER

Brain injuries are so common among U.S. troops that they're called the signature injury of the Iraq war, but Congress is poised to cut military spending on researching and treating them.

House and Senate versions of the defense appropriation bill would chop funding for the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center from $14 million to $7 million. The center runs 10 facilities across the country.

"It's just ridiculous," said Sgt. Maj. Colin Rich, a Fort Bragg, N.C., soldier who has been legally blind since he was shot in the head while serving in Afghanistan in 2002. "Whoever is cutting the budget must have a head injury themselves."

"With the bombs, the gunshot wounds and everything else, their plate is full," he said. "They need that money."

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4. Goebells: "Wunderbar, Amerika!"

Josef sends his heartfelt congratulations to the American media effort, plus a free t-shirt and a coaster promoting his book "What's Truth Got To Do With It?"