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To: jlallen who wrote (558782)	4/5/2010 12:23:30 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575450

* Former Rep. John Kasich, the Republican gubernatorial candidate in Ohio this year, made over $600,000 from Lehman Brothers in 2008.

To: jlallen who wrote (558782)	4/5/2010 12:24:17 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1575450

Then explain why the Palin kids have turned out to be such crap.....afterall, they've had all the advantages as well.

To: jlallen who wrote (558782)	4/5/2010 12:44:43 PM
From: one_less	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1575450

Obama, Prince of Peace and King of the Drones So what is the value of eliminating a terrorist? The US's drone war has been expanded dramatically in the last year and a half, an escalation that began under former President George W. Bush. But his successor, Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama, has not just continued the program. He has elevated it to the preferred method for killing al-Qaida and its allies. More missiles have already been fired from drones in the 13 months since Obama has been in office than in the entire eight years of the Bush presidency. Dozens have been fired since the beginning of the year, and this year the US military will, for the first time, likely train more drone pilots than fighter pilots, says P.W. Singer, an expert on modern warfare at the Washington, DC-based Brookings Institution. According to Singer, as many as a third of all aircraft the military acquires in the future will be unmanned. At any given moment each day, several unmanned aircraft are in use against terrorists in the skies above Pakistan. Others are in the skies over Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. The CIA program has in fact had a number of successes so far: Najmiddin Jalolov, leader of the Islamic Jihad Union which is active in Afghanistan and whose German members planned to set off a series of bombings in Germany, was killed by a drone. Hakimullah Mehsud, Baitullah's successor as the head of the Pakistani militant group Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, was presumably also killed by a drone, even though the Taliban deny it. Abu Laith al-Libi, a senior al-Qaida leader with connections to terrorist groups throughout Asia, was killed by a drone. And the list goes on. Experts believe that only 50 truly important al-Qaida leaders are still alive. The drones are seen as the most effective weapon against them. spiegel.de