2008, President Barack Obama was elected, among other campaign promises, to bring U.S. combat troops home from Iraq within 16 months. President Obama said, “The best way to press Iraq’s leaders to take responsibility for their future is to make it clear that we are leaving.” Obama pledged to, “seek a new accord on Iraq’s Constitution and governance.”
Today we stand upon the ledge of a nuclear precipice. In less than one week, the much-discussed Bushehr plant will become a full-fledged nuclear energy installation. Although Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has consistently declared that the Bushehr plant will be used to generate, “peaceful atomic energy for the people of Iran,” his inconsistencies are nothing new.
In spite of lingering economic fears, more than 60% of consumers around the world are planning to spend as much or more on their vacations this year as they did on their last getaways, according to new research with Survey Sampling International’s (SSI) global online panels.
Yesterday our government sold us a war, and we bought it because the picture they painted was serene and secure. Today, we see that picture coming into the light, and we find it is not what we imagined it to be. Tomorrow they will ask for our continued support for this war, and they will continue to present us with pictures in an effort to entice our favor, but we should no longer be blinded by the darkness of the pictures they portray.
If Pakistan doesn’t already clearly see the Taliban and al-Qaida as enemies, they never will. America cannot afford to keep handing corrupt governments like Pakistan and Afghanistan a blank check while we have needs at home that go unattended.
Israeli forces on Monday stormed a convoy of boats with thousands of tons of food and supplies headed for the Gaza strip, leaving up to 19 people dead and dozens injured, according to news reports.
An Ohio-based law firm, Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley, today filed a major class action lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corporation and other Toyota affiliates. The case is based on the sudden acceleration defect in millions of Toyota automobiles that has caused injuries and deaths.
The United States issued a statement today, January 11th, strongly condemning the Iranian government’s decision to bring to trial seven leaders of the Iranian Baha’i community.
China and the United States are economic partners, because China is the largest foreign holder of US debt. It is the #1 lender to the US at a time, when the annual budget deficit hit a record $1.42 trillion and there are concerns that the falling dollar threatens the value of its existing US holding.
The world’s first floating full-scale offshore wind turbine has been inaugurated in the North Sea off the coast of Norway, Norwegian energy giant StatoilHydro said Tuesday. The turbine known as Hywind, which measures 213 feet tall and weighs 5,300 tons, lies some seven miles off the island of Karmoey near the Scandinavian country’s southwestern coastline, the company said. It rests upon a floating stand that is anchored to the seabed by three cables. Water and rocks are placed inside the stand to provide ballast.
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