order troops to psychologically manipulate visiting senators. the article claims that officers in the command of lieutenant general william caldwell pressured soldiers trained in psychological operations to target visiting lawmakers with a propaganda campaign to boost funding for the war. however, one of those soldiers tells nbc news he refused to follow the order, adding, quote, we just flat out drew a line in the sand. still, on msnbc last night, michael hastings, the author of the piece, speculated on the effects of his report. we don t know what the exact impact of the influencing operations were. what we do know is that one of the things that was tasked was after the meetings to go look at the media report afterwards and do other analysis to see what kind of impact that this would influence operation had. but, yeah, i think that one of the more interesting
$3.6 billion when it comes to this budget deficit, and it s not fair to pass it on to the next generation. that s what got us in this trouble in the first place. as protesters continue to gather in the wisconsin state capitol, 14 democratic lawmakers have given no hint about when they might return.ç speaking on msnbc last night, one of the senators insisted the group was doing the right thing. we have been doing our jobs here, lawrence. we ve been talking with constituents on the phone, answering work e-mails. obviously talking with you to get the word out about what we re doing and why we re doing it. we re standing up for what we believe in. this is an extremely important issue, not so much to the 14 of us, but much more so to the thousands and thousands of people throughout the state of wisconsin who are going to be affected negatively by what the governor wants to do. a coalition of unions and labor groups are planning to hold rallies in all 50 state capitol buildings at