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Joe Biden's Oct. 2008 prediction that election of Obama would invite testing 6 months after election by dangerous dictator regimes has certainly been proven true.The first major test came in June of 2009 with the Islamist regime's bloody crushing of their own citizens, protesting an election fraud and steal by Ahmadinejad. Obama failed to quickly speak out forcefully in support of election protesters.In fact, even as Iranian election protesters were being beaten and killed on the streets of Iran, Obama was having hot dogs with representatives of the thug Islamist regime.Flash forward not a year later a South Korean ship was sank by North Korea.Muted...

US Secretary of State Colin Powell has welcomed Israel’s dismantling of outposts. According to Israel Radio, speaking at the Organization of American States General Assembly in Santiago, Chile, Powell said he was pleased that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is keeping his commitment made at the Aqaba Summit. Powell said he hopes Israel would be able to remove the outposts in a peaceful way, without any violence. “We have to keep moving forward -- even in the presence of violence of the terrible kind we saw over the weekend on the part of Palestinian terrorists, and even in the presence of...