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Sen. Webb Calls on Pentagon to Cancel $300M Iraq Propaganda Program

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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