“weeks rather than months,” the fight would “go relatively quickly,” and “I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, … my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators,” one has to wonder, will he ever get it? What do you do when the foreign policy that was doomed from its inception…
Ukraine President Yushchenko rejects US anti-missile system By DPA, earthtimes.org Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Thursday rejected any discussion of deployment of US anti-missile systems to his country, ending months of waffling by leaders of the former Soviet republic. The Ukrainian politician who is generally liked in Washington for his support of democratic government and…
By Susan Crabtree, thehill.com A Justice Department official pledged that the ongoing investigation into disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s activities and connections to several sitting lawmakers would be handled fairly and without political interference, despite the ongoing controversy over the firing of eight U.S. attorneys last year and questions about whether they were dismissed for purely…
Kucinich, whose committee oversees the Department of Energy, is asking top oil executives what role their companies play in the record high prices of gasoline. “We seek to learn how the realities of decreasing refinery capacity, decreasing gasoline inventories, rising oil company profitability and increasing market concentration in the oil industry may be the root…
