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This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.
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Members use their laptops to take to Twitter and Facebook in support of more wars for other people to fight.
MADISON,WI – Hundreds of college students, representing more than ninety universities, recently converged on Madison to hold their eleventh annual Benevolent Institute of The Chicken-Hawk conference. The organization is seeing its highest turnout in its decade of existence.
As wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have wound down, the organization worries that there "won't be any more foreign wars to fight."
The popular campus group was founded in 2002 by Reed Vanderbilt, then an undergraduate at the University of Tennessee. It has since spread to over one hundred colleges across the country. The group’s motto, “We make the war, they do the chore,” represents their mission of breeding the future smoke-filled backroom shot-callers of America. It boasts an honorary national board composed of a virtual Who's Who of defense industry executives and politicians. Former Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney is the Honorary Chairman, and was scheduled to speak.
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