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After months of fighting, today the Libyan Prime Minister announced that Moammar Gaddafi is now dead. Rebel forces overran the last stronghold of forces loyal to Gaddafi, and in the ensuing battle the long time Libyan leader was killed.
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This reads like a Hollywood movie, unfortunately this is reality. The U.S. uncovered a terror plot orchestrated by Iran, where individuals linked to Quds Force, part of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, tried to pay the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas, to bomb the Israeli and Saudi Embassy in Washington.
The same plotters also were aiming to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States. The plan never progressed as the suspects were dealing with an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration.
In the coming day's more details will be unveiled on the complexities and scope of this attempt to launch terror attacks in the United States. The real question has to be addressed, when will the U.S. realize that the policy of engagement, and the administrations Iranian policy are not working.
The administration came into office stating, if the Iranian leadership unclench their fists, we will open our hands. Since 2009, the Iranian government has had the blood of Americans on its hands in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus the continued progress of obtaining nuclear weapons. What will happen if Iran obtains a nuclear weapon?
The time has come for a different Iranian strategy!
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The Labor Department announced today that the economy created 103,000 jobs, and the prior two months were revised upward. Half of the jobs created were a result of striking Verizon workers returning back to work.
This report is better than most economists had predicted, but nowhere near the number of jobs needed for the economy to begin reducing the persistent high unemployment rate. The nation's economy has to begin creating at least 150,000 jobs a month, just to keep up with population growth.
The President has been crisscrossing the country trying to gather support for his job plan, unfortunately the attention has been focused on Republican opposition, but many Democrats oppose this job proposal, including many Senate Democrats.
The real opposition to sustained job growth is fear, which has permeated through businesses across the country. Businesses will not begin to hire until they know what their tax rates will be, unsure of what regulations will come out of Washington, and only beginning to feel the effects of health care reform.
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Fear has gripped this economy and will only end after the 2012 Presidential election
