The History Of U.S. Oil and the Middle East

Summarizing the relationship between the United States and Saudi oil in four minutes: “The Kingdom” opening credits.

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Have you received an email stating:
Nice idea!
When you are making out your Christmas cards this year, please include the
following:
A Recovering American Soldierc/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center6900 Georgia Avenue, NWWashington, D.C. 20307-5001
If you approve, pass it on.

Well according to Snopes – it’s false.
Mail to Wounded and Recovering Soldiers
Walter Reed Army Medical Center officials want [...]

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A military watchdog organization filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday against the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and a US Army major, on behalf of an Army soldier stationed in Iraq. The suit charges the Pentagon with widespread constitutional violations by allegedly trying to force the soldier to embrace evangelical Christianity and then [...]

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From NPR: This week, President Bush and members of Congress have been focused on the war in Iraq and how well it is — or is not — succeeding. Both sides have made a lot of sometimes competing claims about the situation there. On Thursday night, it was President Bush’s turn, as he addressed the [...]

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