Obama and the internet interview

Well ,you may have heard about our President's internet interview on the news lately. Then again some of you may have not. Evidently it was an interview for Americans to ask questions to our President and get some direct answers. This is the first time this type of interview has been done.
According to an article in the New York Times titled Obama Makes History in Live Internet Video Chat, some interesting things occurred to be talked about. Such as one person asked the President if we could legalize marajauna. Is this not insane? What are people thinking. Supposedly they wanted us to tax it and thought somehow it would help our economy. I thought wow, look out for all the dopies.
This did not hold up, and caused a bunch of laughs and then Obama said “The answer is no, I don’t think that is a good strategy to grow the economy." I'm definitely glad that was his answer.
He also went on to discuss some other topics pertaining to the U.S. such as the auto industry still needing money, and education.
From the way it looks, this was just an experiment to see how much of response would come about. Turns out that over 100,000 people showed up for the event. If there is something you would like to ask this seems to be the place to do it. It was a big deal having that many people listening, and getting to hear straight from Americans. Maybe it will happen again.
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Time Line for Withdrawaling U.S. Troops

Obama has a plan to remove our troops from Iraq. He would like to have them all out except for 50,000 by 2010 and the remaining by2011. This timeline is a little longer that what he projected at sixteen months.There are currently 142,000 troops in Iraq. Having our troops there and helping Iraq is really racking up our already giant debt. All of Americans want our troops to come home quickly. The article titled Obama's Iraq Exit states that," According to the president, this transitional force would have three missions: training Iraqi security forces, carrying out anti-terrorism missions and protecting American civilian and military forces."
The article also says that if we leave our troops in Iraq too long it could cause big problems such as groups in Iraq that would gather and attack their government. Furthermore staying in a country too long could cause radicalization. It is hopeful that they will become a country free of so much violence.