"She's exactly who I need. She's exactly who this country needs to help me fight the same old Washington politics of me first and country second," McCain said.
The girl finds herself in a propaganda war being waged by Iraqi security forces against al Qaeda militants who tried to use her as a remote-controlled bomb.
A bankruptcy filing by Jefferson County over its sewer debt would be the biggest by a U.S. local government since Orange County, California, filed for protection in December 1994.
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