President Obama Up Against the Middle East \'Berli
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President Obama Up Against the Middle East 'Berlin Wall'
Editorial
By Robert Weitzel
Wednesday, 06 August 2008
On July 24, Barak Obama stood where a 96-mile-long wall of barbed wire and concrete once separated the ideologies and lives of East and West Berlin. He told a crowd of 200,000 that "history reminds us that walls can be torn down" and that the "greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us one from another."
I’m guessing it was excessive exposure to either radiation or George Bush, but Senator John McCain’s comments from inside a nuclear power plant in Michigan are so cracked-brained that I fear some loose gamma rays are doing to McCain’s gray matter what they did to Homer Simpson’s.
So, the FBI was prepared to indict U.S. Army scientist Bruce Ivins for terrorism before he committed suicide. The specific act of terrorism for which Ivins was to be indicted was employing weapons of mass destruction, to wit: anthrax, on American citizens on American soil.
World War Two certainly did not end with a whimper, but with a bang. Two very large bangs -- three if you count the Trinity test blast (and you should). The war drums have continued banging ever since.
Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, has pledged to free more than 120 Palestinian prisoners, a move seen as a goodwill gesture aimed at bolstering Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader.
A US military jury at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp has reached a split verdict in the trial of Osama bin Laden's former driver, clearing him of some charges but convicting him of others.
Shaul Mofaz, Israel's transportation minister, has officially launched his campaign to replace Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, as leader of the Kadima party.
Western powers have agreed to consider further United Nations sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme after it failed to respond adequately to an incentives offer.
Barack Obama's Muslim outreach adviser has resigned from the US Democratic presidential candidate's campaign after reports emerged about a previous link to an imam with ties to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.
An American bioweapons expert who committed suicide last month was the only person responsible for deadly anthrax attacks in the country in 2001, US authorities have said.
The Israeli army has removed an officer from his post over allegations he ordered a soldier to fire a rubber-coated bullet into the foot of a bound and blindfolded Palestinian.
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The US president has hit out at China's human rights record on the eve of the Olympic games.
