oversight.house.gov - 1/5/2009
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Mr. John Owens , Former Employee, First Kuwaiti Trading & Contracting Company Mr. Rory Mayberry , Former Subcontractor Employee, First Kuwaiti Trading & Contracting Company Mr. Karl Demming , KBR Major General (Retired) Charles E. Williams , Director, Office of Overseas Building Operations, ...
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US Inaugurates New Baghdad Embassy
Newshoggers.com —
... . It's a $700 million white elephant built with corruption, graft and dodgy construction practises. Heavily fortified to show "how much Iraq has changed" (TM), it's ten times larger than any other American embassy in the world and six times larger than the UN complex in New York - fitting the lack of attention Bush aid to the rest of the world throughout the last eight years. It will persist as a massive reminder of an illegal invasion and occupation, even once that occupation is relabelled as a training mission. ...
US Inaugurates New Baghdad Embassy
At-Largely —
... . It's a $700 million white elephant built with corruption, graft and dodgy construction practises . Heavily fortified to show "how much Iraq has changed" (TM), it's ten times larger than any other American embassy in the world and six times larger than the UN complex in New York - fitting the lack of attention Bush aid to the rest of the world throughout the last eight years. It will persist as a massive reminder of an illegal invasion and occupation, even once that occupation is relabelled as a training mission. Explaining the opening of such a large embassy three years ...
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Generals Seek To Reverse Obama's Iraq Withdrawal Decision
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WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (IPS) - CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus, supported by Defence Secretary Robert Gates, tried to convince President Barack Obama that he had to back down from his campaign pledge to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq ...
Bush promises to stay engaged on Sudan —
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush promised on Monday not to forget after he leaves office about violence in the Darfur region of western Sudan, which the United States has described as genocide.
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Article II, Section 2 of the United States Constitution grants the president "power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States." With a stroke of his pen, the man in charge can make legal trouble disappear. As one might ...
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