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[Untitled] The Mindset That Got Us Into War Is Alive and Well - by Muhammad ...: "If Iran's motives for acquiring a uranium enrichment capability are genuinely peaceful – to provide low-enriched fuel for the nuclear power reactors it hopes to build – then it has no need to build its own enrichment facility. The six countries that have offered Iran a package of incentives to resolve the nuclear issue – China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States – have proposed various means of guaranteeing Iran that it would have reliable access to foreign sources of reactor fuel as long as it complies with its nonproliferation obligations."

[Untitled] Single currency? Meh! - Banking & Finance - ArabianBusiness.com: The years of difficulties, delays and doublespeak suggest that there is more chance of Bahrain winning the football World Cup in 2010, than there is of you or I being asked to settle a bill in khaleeji, or whatever Gulf leaders elect to name the currency.

[Untitled] Rachel Maddow Guest Ron Suskind Condemns Iraq as Allegedly Unique ...: It should also be stated unequivocally that it is in no small part attributable to the Iraq War that this country, and much of the West, has been safe from many major terrorist attacks for the last five years.  If you examine the record of terrorist incidents from 2003-2008 you will find that the great majority of terrorist attacks trend to cluster in Iraq and the incidents outside of Iraq diminish in scope and intensity.  There are anomalies to be sure, but the majority of terrorist incidents outside of Iraq and Afghanistan are commited by Marxist organizations, such as in Nepal, Tibet, and by FARC in Columbia, with some Islamic radicalism notably in Palestine, Bangladesh and Indonesia.  The West was struck in London and Madrid, but there have been precious few attacks in North America, and the majority of these were carried out by eco-terrorist groups like ELF.  The period of Bush's presidency saw fewer major terrorist attacks on U.S. soil since 9/11 than during the presidency of Bill Clinton. 

[Untitled] Iran watchdog scraps new presidential rules - Politics & Economics ...: The original law does not set age limits or stipulate a diploma. Under the amendment, candidates should have already served in a national post such as president, vice president, minister, judiciary, military or broadcasting official, .

[Untitled] Pundits Debate the Inevitability of a Nuclear Iran - by Ali Gharib: The lack of diplomacy since the Bush administration began pursuing its aggressive post-9/11 strategies to remake the Middle East is predicated at least partially on the neoconservative worldview that talking to enemies gives them credibility and, therefore, puts them in a position of strength. That view often stipulates that pre-talk conditions need to be met before a serious effort at engagement can be made.

[Untitled] Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation: As Substitute for ...: From 1999 to 2006, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia ranked in the top five in the Middle East for the total value of their arms transfer agreements with the United States (Egypt and Israel ranked 1st and 2nd, respectively). The United Arab Emirates received $7 billion in arms transfer agreements ($892 million annual average), Saudi Arabia received $6.5 billion ($815 million annual average), and Kuwait received $3 billion ($334 million annual average) during this period in inflation-adjusted Fiscal Year 2006 dollars.

[Untitled] How George Bush turned America into a global punchline « The “D” Spot: It stipulates that if the guarantor loses its top-rated AAA credit rating, additional collateral must be provided. Despite government intervention, AIG was downgraded.

[Untitled] Bush, Al-Maliki Sign US-Iraq Security Agreement | Iraq Updates: The signing of SOFA is the culmination of marathon negotiations, and tough legal and constitutional procedures. The Iraqi parliament approved the security agreement on November 27 of this year.

[Untitled] Ring of Fire Radio | The Daily Left - December 15, 2008: The change stipulated that the executive penalty would apply only to firms that received bailout funds by selling troubled assets to the government in an auction, which was the way the Treasury Department had said it planned to use the money. However, in a reversal of policy, the Bush administration has not used auctions for any of the $335 billion committed so far from the rescue package, nor does it plan to use them in the future.

[Untitled] A NEWT ONE- THE TRUTH SURGE!: Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allah, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

[Untitled] National Journal Online -- National Security Experts -- The Obama ...: Although the ISG itself ceased operations after its December 2006 report, USIP's Daniel Serwer, who wrote the first response for this week's blog question, has kept the staff-level experts together to “offer occasional assessments and .

[Untitled] KABOBfest: Israel's PR campaign to recruit support for killing: There is a difference between deciding to end a ceasefire, and deciding to not renew it, which is the accurate characterization of what happened. However, the point missed (or ignored) by so many is that Israel destroyed any chance of continuing the ceasefire when it used the spectacle of the US Presidential election on November 3rd as a cover to carry out a series of attacks within the Gaza Strip, and then completely seal the territory's borders ever since.

[Untitled] Ioannis Michaletos » Blog Archive » Jürgen Elsässer: “The CIA ...: Jürgen Elsässer: To stop this madness I see possibility of change only among those forces that remained rational. The high command of the American army wrote a letter to Bush to say that it doesn’t want to participate in an attack against Iran with nuclear weapons.

[Untitled] PERRspectives Blog: Gas Hits $4 a Gallon; Bush "Hadn't Heard That": And while he criticizes Obama for "appeasing" countries that harbor terrorists, he's doing exactly that when he goes to Saudi Arabia - probably THE most oppressive Muslim country in the world - to beg them to increase oil production. Clearly nothing but another photo op.

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