It is a known fact that if you are at the hospital then you will receive the best care and have the professional people surrounding you. After all that’s what hospitals are for, are they not? Unfortunately the confidence that people once had in hospitals and their staff being able to do the jobs they are hired to do is slimming down. After all who would want to be in a hospital where they have to call 911 for help?
Defense Secretary Robert Gates slipped into Iraq to warn Iraqi leaders that the U.S. commitment to a military buildup there is not open-ended. Gates said the political tumult in Washington over financing the military presence in Iraq shows that both the American public and the Bush administration are running out of patience with the war.
Tragedy struck today in Virginia when a gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at a college killing at least 30 people in the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history. The gunman also was killed, and more than a dozen other people were injured.
“Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions,” said Charles Steger, president of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, in southwest Virginia. “The university is shocked and indeed horrified.” The shootings spread panic and confusion at the college, which is popularly known as Virginia Tech.
China and Japan have agreed to work out guidelines for a healthy development of their strained ties. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao met each other in Tokyo, Japan to create a strategic relationship for regional stability and decided upon a bilateral economic dialogue.
The two different countries expressed a shared “political” commitment to address the global issue of climate change. Steps to ensure environmental protection were written down in a document that the Foreign Ministers of the two countries signed on the occasion of the summit between the two Prime Ministers.
The family and legal team of John Walker Lindh, who is known as the American Taliban from San Anselmo, is once again asking President Bush to shorten his 20-year prison sentence. James Brosnahan told people at a news conference that he does not beleive that Lindh should have to stay in prison till 2019 if he was not even convicted of a terrorism-related crime. He stated that it is not fair for him if Australian citizen David Hicks can be home by 2008 after pleading guilty to providing material support for terrorism.