According to a Zogby International poll, 72% of American troops want out of Iraq in a year. Raw Story has the details.
More details are emerging about the Duke Cunningham scandal. Here is an excerpt for the San Jose Mercury News: Former U.S. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham bullied and hectored 10 Defense Department officials to ensure that a contractor who has admitted bribing him and another accused of doing the same "received their pound of gold," federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
Cunningham lobbied to take money away from other programs to ensure more money for what he described to an aide as his "top two priorities" - defense contractors Mitchell Wade and Brent Wilkes. When his request for Wade's company came up about $1 million short, the Republican lawmaker stormed into his office and said "he might as well be a Democrat," according to a 2002 e-mail exchange between two of his staff members.
The revelations, including Cunningham's interactions with 10 unnamed Defense Department employees between 1999 and 2005, are contained in the prosecution's objections to a pre-sentence report. The report stated there was no way to distinguish between defense contracts funded through Cunningham's intervention or legitimate means.
Cunningham, 64, is scheduled to be sentenced Friday for accepting $2.4 million in bribes from Wade and others in exchange for steering government work to their companies....
Despite loads of evidence to the contrary, Senator Conrad Burns (Montana-R) claims he has done nothing wrong. The Democrats are pushing hard to get the Abramoff beneficiary out of office.