| Talk about arbitrary deadlines. Iraq is still an open-ended tragedy, and there is mounting evidence that without vigilant, independent monitoring, reconstruction contracts will waste American tax $$ without delivering the results promised. Still, America's Republican-controlled Congress has voted to close down, as of next October 1, the one effective oversight agency that has shown it could produce results... |
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Amanda Lang was a wonderful member of the Opednews team, and the first volunteer editor, for a good number of years being a senior editor. She passed away summer 2014.