Iraq’s critical January 31 provincial election wars are over. With the Iraq Election Commission reporting 90 percent of the vote, the stunning results have far reaching implications for the upcoming referendum on the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), December’s parliamentary elections and President Obama’s proposed U.S. troop withdrawal plan. Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki’s “State [...]
The Iraq War is over. Other than some occasional bombings and shoes thrown at President Bush in press conferences, the end game is coming to Iraq . The Pro-Iranian Shiite majority and the Kurds have won. After battling U.S. troops, the Shiia and Al Queda, the Sunni have lost. What is left is a partitioned [...]
The biggest flaw with our War on Terror is that we assume giving people the right to vote for their leaders will make them more peaceful. What nonsense. Since Palestinians were given the right to vote, they have elected Hamas as their leadership – a terrorist organization with explicit goals to destroy the [...]
Hopefully, the Obama administration will remain serious about reducing our dependence on Mideast oil.
Iraq aims to triple oil exports to six million barrels a day in 10 years, earmarking two billion dollars to start increasing capacity, Finance Minister Baqer Jabr Solagh told AFP.
“We are allocating about two billion dollars (1.6 billion euros) to the oil [...]
Instead of telling us what they would do in the White House to improve the lives of Americans, the McCain-Palin dynamic duo spent another day (thankfully there are only six days left of this neverending nightmare) telling Americans what a dangerous and bad person Barack Obama is because in 2003 he attended a party for [...]