Lincoln Group Shills Gifted With a Six Month, $14.3 Million Contract to Tell Afghans Bombs are Bad

August 7, 2008

Wondering what the Lincoln Group, the public relations firm that planted U.S. military-written propaganda in Iraqi newspapers, is up to now? It recently won a six month, $14.3 million U.S. Army contract, to promote the Army's "Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization campaign" in Afghanistan. The campaign is designed to separate the "bomb makers and users from the support of the populace," and to encourage Afghans to "take responsibility for their communities and report suspicious activities." The firm will develop "a broad-based information campaign about IEDs using billboards, radio messages, hour-long TV programming, video compact discs, posters, flyers and newspaper ads." An Afghanistan-based firm, CentenaGroup, received higher marks for its proposal, but Lincoln Group won the contract because it bid in at a lower price.

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Those are good. Yours bad, ours good. Get it?

To dig through and expose the corruption of these profiteers...the money they got and gave to the repugnican party. Billions have been squandered on these cut throats who will slip into the night or come up with some other scam. There needs to be a serious evaluation of military contracting and outsourcing...removing any trace of Cheney and Rumsfeld.