http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7302406.stm There have been many bomb attacks in Iraq and at least 52 bombing attacks in Iraq so far. A woman set a bomb off a bomb as a suicide threat and killed 78 people and left 75 injured. the bomb was planted in a crowded area and in total there have been 52 bombing [...]
Why you should have the thought of uranium in ur-cranium
Imagine hearing a city near you has been hit by a nuclear bomb. Imagine seeing your city getting hit by a nuclear bomb. Not something anyone wants to happen, I would think. Nuclear weapons are certainly also a threat as long as the technology is out there, in the wrong hands. About 30,000 nuclear weapons [...]
Afghanistan, Bin laden, and the Taliban
Whether then average american knows it or not, the US has been fighting wars with and against our current enemies for decades. The CIA’s association with Afghanistan reaches back into the middle of the cold war. In 1979, the soviet union invaded afghanistan in order to prop up the puppet government it had in place [...]
taking troops out of Iraq
Should we take the troops out of Iraq? I believe that we should because many troops are being killed and more are being shipped off and many. When we think of the families that have troops as their kids, they are heartbroken when their child dies so we need to stop the heart ache of others. [...]
Darfur and why you should care
Darfur. Do you know where that is? “I have no idea what that is.”, says Jared King, currently a freshman. For many, Darfur is just a word, and they are unaware that currently millions threatened by genocide in Africa. If you are one of these people, consider this an intervention. Darfur is [...]
Is Iraq worth the cost?
Amongst all the statistics about Iraq, one seems to bother me-the amount of money spent. Having spent 3 trillion already seems like an awful lot, but the war isn’t even over yet. One week of the war in Iraq/Afghanistan costing 3.5 billion dollars just sounds somewhat like a waste of funds. At this point, we [...]
