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BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIX MIX -- DC.

A NEW CNN POLL FINDS THAT 2/3 OF AMERICANS OPPOSE THE BULLY BOY'S PLAN TO SEND MORE U.S. TROOPS TO IRAQ.

WHICH MEANS THAT 1 IN 3 AMERICANS SUPPORT IT.

IN AN EFFORT TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THOSE NUT JOBS, THESE REPORTERS
CONSIDERED THE RATE OF MENTAL ILLNESS IN THE AMERICAN POPULATION AND DISCOVERED "ONE-QUARTER OF ALL AMERICANS MET THE CRITERIA FOR HAVING A MENTAL ILLNESS WITHIN THE PAST YEAR".

HIS BASELINE OF SUPPORT HAS BEEN DISCOVERED.



FROM THE TCI WIRE:


Turning to news of war resistance, Ehren Watada became the first officer (June 2006) to publicly refuse to deploy to Iraq and now faces a February 5th court-martial. He is scheduled to speak tomorrow at the Coupeville Recreation Hall, 901 NW Alexander ST., Whidbey Island in Coupeville, Washington at 1:00 pm. Also tomorrow, there will be a benefit performance for him Corvallis, OR when Crooked Kate and the Childers-Carson Duo take the stage of the Sunnyside-Up (116 N.W. Third St.) at six pm. In addition, later this month A Citizens' Hearings is being convened January 20-22 at Evergreen State College to address the illegality of the war. In addition, Iraq Veterans Against the War are staging Camp Resistance in support of Watada.
Writing at the blog they've set up for Camp Resistance, dockyne reports:


www.kboo.fm The oldest public radio station in the states hosted IVAW Deployed and had Darrell [Anderson] and Dennis [Kyne] on Friday morning for one hour and a half. Discussing Darrell's experience in this illegal war and his 18 months in exile to Canada, as well as the fact that thousands of other soldiers are refusing to deploy to this illegal war. Hosted by Ani and Melody on their weekly progam (7:30-9 am) Absolutly revolting.
This interview was in depth...it covered the draft, the anti war movement, depleted uranium and allowed multiple callers to learn about the Gulf War, which the VA handbook of benefits states began on 2 Aug 1990 and will end on a date to be determined by congress. When will they end it? We discussed the court martials of Suzanne Swift and Ehren Watada...and the support from Portland, Oregon is massive. Darrell stated, "this is the most radical community I have been too."

Dennis Kyne, writing at U.N. Observer, gives the details on Camp Resistance:

Please support this move....as troops are gathering to support Ehren Watada in his stand against the lies that have gained our nation nothing more than death and despise. Purple Heart, 'Winner' Darrell Anderson returned from 18 months in hiding when he heard that Lt. Watada had refused to deploy. Darrell Anderson would have deployed to his third tour had he not gone north. Anderson asked me to get on the ( http://www.ivawdeployed.org ) with him and get to Fort Lewis to open up Camp RESISTANCE!!!
We are here, in the mud. It is not warm here
...nor dry
.....however, you should stand with us
....in support of a man who stands up against the military mahine and a nation of millions who don't have the foggiest notion that our troops do not want to serve in this war. Lt. Watada is speaking for thousands of enlisted soldiers like Darrell Anderson and myself, a fifteen year veteran of the Army. Watada is a true leader
.....leading and doing
....he knows he should never ask enlisted soldiers to do things he would never do
....that is part of the requirement. NEVER ask nor order your troops to do things that you wouldn't do. There are more violators of this rule in the military now, than ever (or at least in my 15 years.) Lt. Watada is not one of them
...and with that, the soldiers, who have always followed good leaders
....will follow Lt. Watada.. Mike, Damon, Ethan and I, slept on the rig last night
...it was night one of Camp RESISTANCE!!!There is a RESISTANCE!!! going on. Thousands of troops are refusing to deploy
....please let everyone know we are here
.....working from the wi fi hot spot, let them know they should stand here too. If not for a month as we will, than for a day or even an hour. We are at off ramp 119, gates of Fort Lewis.
We are meeting up at the gates of Fort lewis to support the Lt. Why? We have had enough
...we want the war to stop
....we want the government to stop using the troops as pawns in their game. If you know of a veteran who is opposed to this war, please help them get here....
if you are ok with the weather, please get here also.
I, personally, will always think it an honor and a privilege to have served the United States people
...I know Ehren does too. It is with that same pride and honor that I, personally, ask you to do something for this man
....who has, without question stood, with more integrity in his little pinky, than most of these Generals have in their entire skin. I am honored to know his family, they are a wonderful display of family values
...something we don't see a lot of.To support him
.... ( http://www.thankyoult.org ) you will find the news to follow the days up to the trial......

Meanwhile, John Powell writes to the Capital Times to weigh in on the argument that Watada signed a contract and any responsibilities he had for war ended right there: "Perhaps Piek has never served in the military, but I remember the oath I took when I was inducted into the Army as a lowly buck private in 1968. The oath for soldiers is virtually the same as the oath taken by the president of the United States and every other official of every level of government in the country: an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution of the United States. There is nothing in that oath about obeying orders. In fact, the Geneva Convention and the Uniform Code of Military Justice make it clear that a soldier's duty is to disobey illegal orders. Watada alleges that the Iraq war is unconstitutional and therefore illegal, and that he is duty-bound to refuse to serve in it. This should be the issue - not whether he refused to obey orders (clearly he did), but whether those orders were legal."

Watada is part of a movement of resistance within the military that also includes Kyle Snyder, Ivan Brobeck, Darrell Anderson (noted abovein the Camp Resistance post), Ricky Clousing, Aidan Delgado, Mark Wilkerson, Agustin Aguayo, Joshua Key, Camilo Meija, Pablo Paredes, Carl Webb, Stephen Funk, David Sanders, Dan Felushko, Brandon Hughey, Jeremy Hinzman, Corey Glass, Patrick Hart, Clifford Cornell, Joshua Despain, Katherine Jashinski, Chris Teske and Kevin Benderman. In total, thirty-eight US war resisters in Canada have applied for asylum.

Information on war resistance within the military can be found at Center on Conscience & War, The Objector, The G.I. Rights Hotline, and the War Resisters Support Campaign. Courage to Resist offers information on all public war resisters.

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BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIX MIX -- DC.

 

BULLY BOY SPOKE AT FORT BENNING TODAY AND REPEATED HIS USUAL LIES INCLUDING TROTTING OUT SEPTEMBER 11TH AGAIN BECAUSE, AS ONE WHITE HOUSE WAG PUT IT, "IT'S THE ONLY SUCCESSFUL MARKETING TOOL HE'S EVER STUMBLED UPON."

 

SPEAKING, SUPPOSEDLY ABOUT 'THE ENEMY,' BULLY BOY DECLARED:

 

 

See, their vision of life, their ideology can't stand the thought of free societies in their midst. They're totalitarians. You do it this way, or else, is their attitude about government. They don't believe in freedoms, like freedom to worship. I, frankly -- well, speaking about religion, these are murderers. They use murder as a tool to achieve their objective. Religious people don't murder. They may claim they're religious, but when you kill an innocent woman, or a child to create a political end, that's not my view of religion. And yet, there are a lot of peaceful, religious people in the Middle East.

 

TO ANYONE LIVING IN AMERICA SINCE JANUARY 2001, THAT SOUNDS A LOT LIKE THE BULLY BOY AND HE PROVED IT WITH HIS 'SOLUTION:'

 

These people need to be stopped.

 

LADIES & GENTLEMEN, THE PEACEFUL, EASY BULLY BOY.

 

 

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

 

 

United for Peace & Justice's Leslie Cagan echoed Professor Goldring's thoughts on Democracy Now! today where she stated, "This war has to end.  It never should have started.  It was a war totally based on lies.  It has to end.  It has to end now."  Cagan noted actions taking place around the country today and also noted that "in just a few weeks, on Saturday January 27th, people from every corner of the country are gathering here in Washington, where I am right now, to march around the Capitol, to deliver our message: it is time to end the war.  The people spoke.  The voters of this country had their opportunity in November to make their voices heard.  Now we're saying to Congress, 'You need to act on the will of the people of this country.'  So on Saturday January 27th, people will be getting on buses and trains and carpools and every other manner of transportation and gathering here in Washington on the Mall between 3rd Street and 7th Street at 11:00 am in the morning and delivering this message.  And on top of that, we're asking people to stay here in Washington for a few more days to do a massive lobby day on Monday the 29th".  Information on the actions this month on the 27th and 29th as well as today can be found by clicking here.

 

Thulasi Srikanthan (Toronto Star) reports the only real 'surge' and it's in Canada as War Resisters Support Campaign's Lee Zaslofsky notes the "surge in the number of calls from American troops during the past week" which has resulted in the War Resisters Support Campaign requesting "help in housing soldiers fleeing the U.S."  The War Resisters Support Campaign helps American troops who are seeking asylum in Canada.  In other news of war resistance, Paul Boring (Whidbey News Times) reports US war resister Ehren Watada will be speaking this Saturday (January 13th) at 1:00 pm at the Coupeville Recreation Hall (901 NW Alexander ST., Whidbey Island in Coupeville, Washington). 

 

In June of last year, Ehren Watada became the first officer to publicly refuse to deploy to Iraq.  He faces a court-martial on Feburary 5th.  Camp Resistance is set up outside Fort Lewis where Watada is serving and it's a project of Iraq Veterans Against the War (each day they gather at off I-5, exit 119 in Dupont, Washington).  Damon Murphy notes that today: "We were approached by a Sgt. of the Dupont Police Department. He brought news that the property owner wanted us off of his land; the reason given was due to a misunderstanding about the amount of time we'd be there. The impression was that we'd be there for the two or three days surrounding Lt. Ehren Watada's Court Martial Pre-Trial; the reality, is that IVAW is deployed. When you're deployed you’re stuck. When you’re deployed, all you have is what is next to you: people, tools for your survival, and the mission at hand. Our mission at hand, regardless of where it takes place, is standing in solidarity with Lt. Ehren Watada as he awaits his pending Court Martial, twenty-seven days from now."

 

Watada is part of a movement of resistance within the military that also includes Kyle Snyder, Ivan Brobeck, Darrell Anderson, Ricky Clousing, Aidan Delgado, Mark Wilkerson, Agustin Aguayo, Joshua Key, Camilo Meija, Pablo Paredes, Carl Webb, Stephen Funk, David Sanders, Dan Felushko, Brandon Hughey, Jeremy Hinzman, Corey Glass, Patrick Hart, Clifford Cornell, Joshua Despain, Katherine Jashinski, Chris Teske and Kevin Benderman. In total, thirty-eight US war resisters in Canada have applied for asylum.


Information on war resistance within the military can be found at Center on Conscience & War, The Objector, The G.I. Rights Hotline, and the War Resisters Support Campaign. Courage to Resist offers information on all public war resisters.

 

In "Oh, Condi" news -- the Senate testimony today . . .  Rice noted that Sadr's bloc "pulled out and the government didn't collapse"; however, she fails to note how little got accomplished or the attempts to woo the bloc back.  She boasted that, "We know why sectarian violence didn't come down" -- apparently now that Negroponte's under her, he's spilled all the beans on the death squads.  She declared, "We're not going to stay married to a plan that isn't working."  But failed to ask the important question: Should This Marriage Be Saved?  She refused to be pinned down on 'specifics' but did note, "The oil law is important."  (Well, they did name a tanker after her.)  (Here's an AP article -- my remarks are based on watching it on TV.)

 

 

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BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIX MIX -- DC.

 

IT ONLY TOOK 6 YEARS BUT TONIGHT THE BULLY BOY WILL ANNOUNCE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT HE HAS MADE 1 "MISTAKE" WHILE INSTALLED IN THE OVAL OFFICE -- NOT SENDING ENOUGH U.S. TROOPS INTO HIS ILLEGAL WAR.

 

IRONICALLY HIS "MISTAKE" ALLOWS HIM TO JUSTIFY ADVOCATING MORE U.S. TROOPS BE SENT TO IRAQ TO BE USED AS TARGETS IN HIS ILLEGAL WAR.

 

HE'S A BIT LIKE THE HUSBAND CAUGHT CHEATING WHO PLEADS HE'S JUST A MAN WHO LOVES TOO MUCH.

 

 

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

 

Turning to news of war resistance, Robert Fantina (CounterPunch) writes of Ivan Brobeck.  Yes, Ivan Brobeck -- the war resister independent media forgot.  Or those who keep up.  The Full Brobeck is a term the community uses to note what passes for coverage of war resisters in independent media -- so named when only  KPFA's Flashpoints covered Brobeck when he returned to the US from Canada to turn himself on election day (November 6, 2006 -- day before the election -- is when the interview conducted by Nora Barrows-Friedman aired).  Robert Fantina (CounterPunch) writes: "Lance Corporal Ivan Brobeck, Sergeant Ricky Clousing, Sergeant Kevin Benderman, Sergeant Camilo Mejia: each a veteran of the Iraq war, and each charged with desertion.   Mr. Benderman, Mr. Mejia and Mr. Clousing were convicted, sentenced and have completed prison time.  Mr. Brobeck is currently serving an 8-month sentence.  Yet with government studies indicating that thousands of soldiers have deserted during the Iraq war, why are only a few charged, while so many others are basically ignored?  This is not a new phenomenon.  As communication has improved over the two centuries of America's life, the ability for war resisters to reach a wider audience has greatly increased.  The four brave men listed above demonstrated their courage first on the battlefield.  They then not only further showed their bravery by leaving the U.S. military -- a tremendously brave act in and of itself -- they went the additional step of speaking out publicly against the war.  This, it seems, is what brought down the wrath of the U.S. government upon them."

 

In Peggy Got A Message For Me, From Jesus news: Wonderful article but can someone get it to The Nation -- with sections highlighted?  ("Peggy Get . . ." line from Tori Amos' "Cooling" off To Venus And Back.)  Elaine will be addressing that topic this evening at Like Maria Said Paz.  That topic?  The Nation's refusal to cover war resisters.

 

Meanwhile William Hughes (San Francisco Indymedia) reports that, in a recent speech, Daniel Ellsberg opposed the escalation option (that Bully Boy will be pimping in the Big Speech), opposed expanding the war and "lauded Lt. Ehren Watada for his principled stand against the Iraqi war."  Ehren Watada is the first US officer to publicly refuse to deploy to Iraq.  Last week, a pre-trial hearing began which preceeds the planned February 5th court-martial.  John Catalinotto (Workers World) reports that Camp Resistance is across from Fort Lewis (where Watada is stationed) and "plans to stay until the end of Lt. Watada's court-martial" while there will be "nationally coordinated demonstrations for Feb. 5, the day his court-martial is scheduled to open."

 

Information about Camp Resistance can be found in The Nation.  Did you laugh at that idea?  Me too.  Seriously, information about Camp Resistance can be found at Iraq Veterans Against the War which has a page for it and other actions entitled Iraq Veterans Against The War Deployed with photos and blog posts.

 

Watada and Brobeck are a part of a movement of resistance within the military that also includes Kyle Snyder, Darrell Anderson, Ricky Clousing, Aidan Delgado, Mark Wilkerson, Agustin Aguayo, Joshua Key, Camilo Meija, Pablo Paredes, Carl Webb, Stephen Funk, David Sanders, Dan Felushko, Brandon Hughey, Jeremy Hinzman, Corey Glass, Patrick Hart, Clifford Cornell, Joshua Despain, Katherine Jashinski, Chris Teske and Kevin Benderman. In total, thirty-eight US war resisters in Canada have applied for asylum.


Information on war resistance within the military can be found at Center on Conscience & War, The Objector, The G.I. Rights Hotline, and the War Resisters Support Campaign. Courage to Resist offers information on all public war resisters. Appeal for Redress is collecting signatures of active duty service members calling on Congress to bring the troops home -- the petition will be delivered to Congress next week (MLK day).  [Yes, that is a federal holiday and, yes, Congress won't be in session.]

 

And remember that Lisa Brobeck is requesting people write her husband, war resister Ivan Brobeck, "so he is constantly reminded that he is not alone during this time in the brig and that he is supported in his brave and courages stand."  The address:

 

LCPL Ivan S. Brobeck 

MCB Quantico Brig 

3247 Elrod Avenue 

Quantico, Virginia 22134 

 

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BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIX MIX -- DC.

 

US SENATOR TED KENNEDY HAS DECLARED THE ILLEGAL WAR IN IRAQ TO BE "GEORGE BUSH'S VIETNAM." 

 

WHEN REACHED FOR COMMENT TODAY BETWEEN NAPS, THE BULLY BOY OF THE UNITED STATES CHUCKLED AND SAID, "SURE IS!  AND JUST LIKE VIETNAM, DADDY'S GOING TO GET ME OUT OF THIS ONE!"

 

OTHERS WERE LESS SURE.

 

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

 

Starting with US war resister Ehren Watada who, in June 2006, became the first officer to publicly refuse to deploy to the illegal war. Last Thursday, at the Fort Lewis Army, a military pretrial, presided over by Lt. Col. John Head, heard arguments to outline the scope of the scheduled February 5th court-martial.

Today, the supposedly educated (if not enlightened) members of The Seattle Times editorial board issued their own journalistic ruling -- one that they apparently hammered out with bully clubs. Representing the finest of mob mentalities, if not journalism or democracy, The Seattle Times argues that Ehren Watada should be convicted on both counts (missing deployment and conduct unbecoming an officer) because . . . well the system just won't survive otherwise. Having killed the invidual to "save" what they see as a weak and dottering system (otherwise Watada wouldn't have to be convicted -- if they had any faith in the strength and resiliency of the American system, the Nervous Nels wouldn't have argued for his conviction for the good of the system), they embrace a long history of knuckle draggers who chose expediency over true democracy because there's nothing like a moral imperative to have the most closed minded reaching for the white sheets and rope.

For the system to struggle on, the editorial board argues, the individual must be stamped out and the accusers of Socrates couldn't have said it better in ancient times. If they've learned anything from their (limited) education, the only evidence is that, while calling for a judicial death, they stop short of imprisoment because they fear a martyr who could galvanize a public.
So, by their rudimentary and flawed logic, Ehren Watada must be found guilty to give pause to any other service member that might follow in his footsteps thereby defending the "good Nazi" argument overruled in the Nuremberg Trials which found that following orders was not a valid excuse and that each soldier is an individual agent responsible for his or her own actions.

The Seattle Times sees service members as worker bees and one wonders how far they'd be willing to carry out their flawed logic. Were it The Berlin Times in the immediate aftermath of WWII would they editorialize in favor of Nazis sending Jews, gypsies and gays to the gas chambers? Doubtful because the only basis for their stand today is that the individual must be stamped out at all costs due to the board's own deluded belief in the weakness of the American system. (Possibly they'd term it "the American experiment"?). In an apparent correction to Max Weber (and a dismissal of Robert K. Merton's work on Universalism), the editorial board argues that the state must not only use military might as they see fit but also narrowly define "justice" when it suits their own purposes.

In a decade of journalistic cowardice, the editorial echoes many of the themes that saw the punishment of those journalists who, in real time, called out the Bully Boy for his Bunny-Fu-Fu hop around the continental United States on September 11th for what it was (cowardice), and saw a rush to pass off press releases as investigative journalism. The system will survive, it always does, it's modern day journalism that has decayed.

In the real world, where a spine is required to stand erect, Ehren Watada is part of a movement of resistance within the military and The Seattle Times hoped for guilty verdict hasn't stopped the movement which includes people such as Watada, Kyle Snyder, Darrell Anderson, Ricky Clousing, Aidan Delgado, Mark Wilkerson, Agustin Aguayo, Joshua Key, Ivan Brobeck, Camilo Meija, Pablo Paredes, Carl Webb, Stephen Funk, David Sanders, Dan Felushko, Brandon Hughey, Jeremy Hinzman, Corey Glass, Patrick Hart, Clifford Cornell, Joshua Despain, Katherine Jashinski, Chris Teske and Kevin Benderman. In total, thirty-eight US war resisters in Canada have applied for asylum.


Information on war resistance within the military can be found at Center on Conscience & War, The Objector, The G.I. Rights Hotline, and the War Resisters Support Campaign. Courage to Resist offers information on all public war resisters. Appeal for Redress is collecting signatures of active duty service members calling on Congress to bring the troops home -- the petition will be delivered to Congress next week (MLK day).

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BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIX MIX -- DC.

 

BULLY BOY IS BUSY PREPPING FOR HIS 2007 PRIMETIME DEBUT. 

 

THOUGH WILLIAM KRISTOL IS PEPPERING HIM WITH "BOFFO" ONE LINERS, BULLY BOY IS SAID TO STILL BE NERVOUS.

 

EXPLAINED WHITE HOUSE FLACK TONY SNOWJOBS, "THIS IS A BIG MOMENT AND HE WAS NERVOUS ABOUT WHAT VIEWERS WOULD THINK AS THEY MISSED THEIR FAVORITE PROGRAMS?  SO WE WENT WITH WEDNESDAY WHERE HE WOULD BE TAKING THE PLACE OF ABC'S LOST, NBC'S THE BIGGEST LOSER AND CBS' CRIMINAL MINDS.  LOST, CRIMINAL MINDS, THE BIGGEST LOSER?  WE STRONGLY BELIEVE A SPEECH FROM THE BULLY BOY OF THE UNITED STATES BRINGS TOGETHER ELEMENTS OF ALL THREE PROGRAMS."

 

 

 

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

 

Starting with US war resister Ehren Watada who awaits the decision of Lt. Col. John Head, the presiding judge in the pretrial hearing that will outline the parameters for his February 5th court-martial.  Teresa Watanabe (Los Angeles Times) boils the awaited decision down: "Do military officers have the right to publicly voice dissent about their commander in chief and U.S. war policy?  That question highlighted a pretrial hearing last week at Fort Lewis Army base near Seattle involving 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, the nation's first commissioned officer to refuse deployment to Iraq."  As Mike Hersh (OpEd News) notes, if court-martialed and found guilty of all charges, Ehren Watada faces six years in prison.  Chanan Suarez-Diaz (Socialist Worker) observes that Watada is part of "the movement of military resisters" and notes that "January 21 and 22, Watada's supporters will participate in a 'Citizen's Hearing on the Legality of U.S. Actions in Iraq' -- designed to put the war on trial, rather than the brave men and women who resist it.  Among the antiwar figures who will testify are former Pentagon analyst Daniel Ellsberg, Denis Halliday, who resigned in protest as United Nations coordinator of humanitarian aid in Iraq; and international law expert Richard Falk."

 

Meanwhile, Kyle Snyder, another US war resister, continues speaking out and resisting around the United States.  In a co-authored post with Vietnam war resister Gerry Condon (Soldier Say No!), Snyder looks back at 2006 -- a year that for him started in Canada, found him returning to the US to turn himself in October and then self-checking out again after the US military again went back on their word --  and notes that Synder continues to speak out, asks that you contact General William McCoy, Jr. and demand the military discharge Snyder -- 573-596-0131; or, Public Affairs Office, 573-563-4013; fax: 573-563-4012, e-mail alleym@wood.army.mil with the message: "Discharge Kyle Snyder with No Punishment."

 

Snyder and Watada are part of a movement of resistance to the illegal war within the military that also includes Darrell Anderson, Ricky Clousing, Aidan Delgado, Mark Wilkerson, Agustin Aguayo, Joshua Key, Ivan Brobeck, Camilo Meija, Pablo Paredes, Carl Webb, Stephen Funk, David Sanders, Dan Felushko, Brandon Hughey, Jeremy Hinzman, Corey Glass, Patrick Hart, Clifford Cornell, Joshua Despain, Katherine Jashinski, Chris Teske and Kevin Benderman. In total, thirty-eight US war resisters in Canada have applied for asylum.

 

 

Information on war resistance within the military can be found at Center on Conscience & War, The Objector, The G.I. Rights Hotline, and the War Resisters Support Campaign. Courage to Resist offers information on all public war resisters. Appeal for Redress is collecting signatures of active duty service members calling on Congress to bring the troops home -- the petition will be delivered to Congress this month.

 

 

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