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Truth001 wrote: No John GWB destabilized the region by marching into Iraq in the first place all in the name of Oil. Obama was only trying to clean up the mess President Bush and VP Cheney left behind. Remember "mission accomplished" 10 years later, 4000+ soldiers dead and 1.5 trillion dollars later. Obama has been trying to avoid another Iraq disaster like every since he has been in office. - The Foreign Policy of the Three StoogesDear Comrade Pravda,How do you explain the destabilization of Libya, then? Or Afghanistan? Or Pakistan? Or Egypt? Or Ukraine? Were those all George BushÂ’s...

General Motors Co. has hired the ultimate car guy out of retirement to advise its senior leadership. Bob Lutz, 79, a former GM vice chairman for product development, left the company last year, but never really ended his 47-year career in the auto business. Lutz had been informally advising GM on its new products for the past 16 months from his home near Ann Arbor, Mich. The move by GM CEO Dan Akerson should help the company because its top-selling new products were conceived and designed under Lutz’s leadership. The new models like the Chevrolet Cruze compact and the GMC...

The RACER Trust, a team created by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to clean up and position former General Motors facilities for redevelopment, sold the General Motors facility in Moraine, OH, for $6 million, or about $1.33 per square foot. Industrial Realty Group, a California-based development firm, purchased the 4.5 million-square-foot industrial building on the 300-acre site. The property contains building and soil contamination issues. IRG plans to split the asset to be used by multiple tenants which can potential employ up to 2,000 people. This is one of 89 GM properties that the U.S. Bankruptcy Court is looking to clean...