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Last US Combat Brigade Leaves Iraq: Instant Reactions
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 18) -- They're coming home -- early. On Wednesday evening in America, the Web lit up with the news that the final designated combat brigade, made up of some 4,000 U.S. soldiers, was leaving Iraq two weeks ahead of the Aug. 31 deadline set by President Obama. The historic moment, as MSNBC noted, effectively "... [Brings] to a close the active combat phase of a 7½-year war that overthrew the dictatorial regime of Saddam Hussein, forever defined the presidency of George W. Bush and left more than 4,400 American service members and tens of thousands of Iraqis dead." Of course, as the ...
Iran Frees Reporter Roxana Saberi
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyRoxana Saberi, the Iranian-American reporter who was imprisoned in April by the Iranian government for alleged spying, has been released. From BBC News:The US-Iranian journalist jailed in Iran, Roxana Saberi, has been freed from prison after having her sentence for spying reduced. Lawyers for the 31 year old, whose imprisoning sparked a global outcry, said she left Tehran's Evin jail hours after her eight-year term was cut. She will be able to leave the country but has been banned from working as a journalist in Iran for five years. The appeal hearing lasted 5 hours, as opposed to the 1 hour ...
New Video: President Obama Gives Chavez a Good Talking-To?
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThere's a new video of President Obama circulating, in which the President appears to be giving Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez some stern words. In the video, the President and Chavez can be seen, but not heard. The LA Times describes the scene:(h/t HuffPo) Now, thanks to Jake Tapper's blog entry over at ABC this afternoon, we've got fresh Venezuelan news videotape from the same Americas summit through a door showing the two leaders conversing through a female interpreter. No smiles in this exchange. In fact, Obama at first appears eager to walk away and is held back by Chavez. The American ...
Vice-President Elect Joe Biden to Play Senator on South Asia Trip
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIn a highly unusual move, still Senator and Vice-President elect Joe Biden will lead a Congressional delegation to the Middle East and South Asia next week. Biden, who was sworn in to his seventh term in the Senate on Tuesday despite his pending resignation to be inaugurated as Vice-President, will be travelling in his official capacity as the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Biden tried to address the contradiction inherit in an incoming vice-president pretending to be a Senator in the statement announcing the trip, saying that the delegation will make it clear that it is ...
Russian Predicts U.S. Breakup by 2010
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyRussian professor Igor Panarin has been predicting the eventual breakup of the United States in the year 2010 for more than a decade. And as the zero hour approaches, and the worldwide economic down slide intensifies, Panarin's prediction is being treated with more seriousness, especially in Russia. Panarin claims that recently he has been interviewed about his theory twice a day, primarily for Russian state media.Panarin says that the odds are better than even that the U.S. will not make it through the next election cycle. "There's a 55-45% chance that a disintegration will occur," he ...
Cheney Will Visit Georgia
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe White House announced yesterday that Vice-President Dick Cheney will travel to Georgia next week as part of a trip to three former Soviet republics to express the Bush Administration's support for the Georgian government. Fighting in Georgia between Russian and Georgian troops has ceased, but the situation remains very tense. Russia remains in control of the Black Sea port of Poti, and has stated that it will begin searching cargo entering the port, in violation of the cease fire agreement brokered by European leaders in which Russia agreed not to interfere with the free flow of goods into ...
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyLast week, the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press released a poll that purported to show that Barack Obama had become overexposed. Forty-eight percent of respondents said that they had heard too much about Sen. Obama, including 51% of independents and 34% of Democrats. The results of the survey were used, in part, to justify Obama's week-long Hawaiian vacation, which he is enjoying this week. Presidential candidates have long taken time off in August, just before or just after their party's convention. August is a month when many Americans are themselves vacationing, and thus not ...
Bush Orders Humanitarian Relief for Georgia
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident Bush stepped out into the Rose Garden today to address the situation in Georgia. In a sharply worded statement, the president questioned Russian claims that their military activities in the former Soviet state have been stopped, and he called on Russia to remove all of its troops from Georgian territory.The United States of America stands with the democratically elected government of Georgia. We insist that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia be respected.Russia has stated that changing the government of Georgia is not its goal. The United States and the world expect ...
Russia Ceases Georgia Offensive
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyRussian President Dmitri Medvedev put an end to Russian military action in neighboring Georgia late yesterday, hours after Russian troops attacked the strategically important town of Gori on the outskirts of the capital Tblisi. The Russian Army had opened a second front yesterday in another breakaway Georgian province, Abkhazia, leading to fears that it aimed to take over the former Soviet republic. But pressure from the West and a personal visit to Moscow from French President Nicolas Sarkozy may have stayed Russia's plans for the time being.Now the focus will turn to the aftermath of the ...
Putin Esaclates War of Words over Georgia
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyRussian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, stung by sharp criticism from the White House over its invasion of U.S. ally Georgia, reacted angrily today to the United States' military assistance to the former Soviet republic. The U.S. military transported some 2,000 Georgian troops from their bases in Iraq back to Georgia to assist in the fighting there. Putin labeled that action unhelpful and accused the United States of hypocrisy in its condemnation of Russia's actions."It's a pity that some of our partners instead of helping are in fact trying to get in the way. I mean among other things the ...
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