Lawmakers Describe 'Being Slimed in the Green Zone'

The sheets of paper seemed to be everywhere the lawmakers went in the Green Zone, distributed to Iraqi officials, U.S. officials and uniformed military of no particular rank. So when Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) asked a soldier last weekend just what he was holding, the congressman was taken aback to find out.

In the soldier's hand was a thumbnail biography, distributed before each of the congressmen's meetings in Baghdad, which let meeting ... Full Story »

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William Wittmeyer
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by William Wittmeyer - Oct. 1, 2008

Story is designed to protect the guilty and convict the innocent. The slant seems to be that the soldiers are just to be pawns, with no minds of their own. What do the Congress Critters think the military things of them and their positions?

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