| |  | | It's been my honor to come to a place that's embodiment of the American Dream. See, what we believe is, we believe people in this country ought to be able to work hard and dream big, and realize their dreams.........
We just had what we call a roundtable discussion -- it happened to be at a square table. (Laughter.) About home ownership, the idea of people owning a home is part of the American Dream.........
When I landed at the airport I met a fellow named Denny... | Hands of Jelly | | Comments 0
 | | | "I don't know whether [housing] has bottomed out... [Whether housing] has bottomed out, not quite bottomed out, or is going to take a quarter or two longer, the thing that we've seen is that other parts of the economy are doing so well that we're just powering through this."
Hank Paulson, Secretary of the Treasury
15th December, 2006
"It's too early to tell whether [Housing Market] has bottomed. I believe it has. We'll know more... | Hands of Jelly | | | Comments 2
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| | | War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes... | Hands of Jelly | | | Comments 0
| | | Baghdad, Iraq(CNN) -- A member of the Dawa terrorist organisation sentenced to death in Kuwait for the 1983 bombings of the U.S. and French embassies now sits in Iraq's parliament as a member of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's ruling coalition, according to U.S. military intelligence.
Jamal Jafaar Mohammed's seat in parliament gives him immunity from prosecution. Washington says he supports Shiite insurgents and acts as an Iranian agent in Iraq.
U.S. military intelligence... | Hands of Jelly | | | Comments 0
| | | Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has revealed in a new book that the Bush administration began high-level discussions of invading and conquering Iraq as soon as Bush entered the White House in January 2001.
O'Neill's description of the events is not only convincing, it is fully documented. He gave extensive interviews to the book's author, former Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind, and provided Suskind with 19,000 pages of documents from his two years in office, as well... | Hands of Jelly | | | Comments 0
| | | The Iraqi officer leading a U.S.-financed anti-jihadist group is in no mood for small talk -- either the military gives him more money or he will pack his bags and rejoin the ranks of al-Qaeda.
"I'll go back to al-Qaeda if you stop backing the Sahwa (Awakening) groups," Col. Satar tells U.S. Lt. Matthew McKernon, as he tries to secure more funding for his men to help battle the anti-U.S. insurgents.
Most members of the Awakening groups are Sunni Arab... | Hands of Jelly | | | Comments 0
| | [Microsoft Chairman Bill] Gates described China as a potential “change agent'' for the next two decades. “It's phenomenal,'' Gates said. “It's a brand new form of capitalism.'' . . . Gates's $27 billion foundation in September received approval from China's foreign-currency regulator to invest as much as $100 million in the nation's yuan shares and bonds. The so-called Laogai is the largest system ... | Hands of Jelly | | | Comments 0
| | | Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.
Dick Cheney
Speech to VFW National Convention
August 26, 2002
Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.
George W. Bush
Speech to UN General Assembly
September 12, 2002
If he declares he has none, then we will... | Hands of Jelly | | | Comments 0
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