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October 10, 2008

Sen. Webb Calls on Pentagon to Cancel $300M Iraq Propaganda Program
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The Army Times is reporting Democratic Senator Jim Webb of Virginia is
asking the Pentagon to halt a $300 million program to produce
pro-American news and public service messages in Iraq. Webb said, “At a
time when this country is facing such a grave economic crisis…it makes
little sense for the Department of Defense to be spending hundreds of
millions of dollars to propagandize the Iraqi people.” The Pentagon
recently awarded a total of $300 million in new contracts to four
contractors to produce pro-US propaganda for Iraqi audiences. The
contractors are the Washington-based Lincoln Group, the LA-based Leonie
Industries, as well as MPRI and SOSI, both based in Virginia.



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