Headlines for 02-09-08

AP Poll: Leaving Iraq will help economy The heck with Congress' big stimulus bill. The way to get the country out of recession ? and most people think we're in one ? is to get the country out of Iraq, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll.


Pakistan is now the central front in America's war on terror Rightly so.


War demands strain US military readiness A classified Pentagon assessment concludes that long battlefield tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with persistent terrorist activity and other threats, have prevented the U.S. military from improving its ability to respond to any new crisis, The Associated Press has learned.


U.S. sees no need for more Iranian nuclear plants The United States sees no need "at all" for Iran to build additional nuclear power plants, U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns told Reuters Friday.


Ambassador: Iran's rocket test not for military purposes


Ron Paul Scales Back, Shifts Focus to Congressional Race Ron Paul says he?s still in the presidential race but is moving to scale back his staff and shift focus to his own re-election campaign for his Texas congressional seat.


Ron Paul Rules Out 3rd Party Run, Scales Down Campaign Bummer.


Another Act of War Within weeks of the disclosure by the Syrians of the seemingly unprovoked bombing, neo-crazy media sycophants at the New York Times and the Washington Post were "reporting" that U.S. and Israeli officials had concluded that the North Koreans were constructing at the site a weapons-grade plutonium-producing nuclear reactor ? similar to the one constructed for the Koreans by the Soviets at Yongbyon.