U.S. diplomat sees some progress in Iraq

The top U.S. diplomat in Iraq said Thursday that Baghdad is making some political progress but faces considerable difficulty in the months to come to try to heal a nation long gripped by violence. "If there is one word, I would use to sum up the atmosphere in Iraq — on the streets, in the countryside, in the neighborhoods and at the national level — that word would be fear," Ryan Crocker told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Well that is good to hear that some progress is actually taking place in iraq, and it is our duty that Iraq fininshes healing. Then we will have sucessfully completed our duty of removing terrorism and despotism form the middle east.

Bush defends his immigration proposals

President Bush sharply challenged critics of his stalled immigration-overhaul efforts on Thursday, suggesting that failure to pass a guest-worker program could trigger a labor shortage in the United States. This portion of the presidents argument i agree with and i believe that him defending this idea is very assuring. The American people should not have a problem with him doing this and he shouldn't have to defend him self. At a town-hall style meeting, Bush also rebuffed a question about whether he would consider pardoning two Border Patrol agents in prison for the cover-up of the shooting of a drug trafficker in Texas. "No, I won't make you that promise," Bush told a woman who asked about a possible pardon. Many Republicans in Congress have said the men should not have been convicted and have criticized the federal U.S. attorney for even prosecuting the agents. Finally it looks like President bush is coming to the light, but it shouold have been sooner. It don't like the sound of his republican party though they sound bias and unfair. Everyone deserves fair punishment and Bush it Stessing that!