Sen. John McCain

"But who are the Revolutionary Guard? They were Iran's main bulwark during the ten year long Iraq-Iran War and it is very difficult to find a Iranian man now between the age of thirty and forty five who has not served with those guards. Secondly, these Revolutionary Guards are, even today, the bulk of Iran's national defense forces. To declare them a terrorist organization is to consign the whole of Iran's national military forces and much of their population to the category of terrorists..."

Sen. John McCain

"But there's also a larger regional and global context which was spelled out in an article published last friday by Joschka Fischer, who was the German Foreign Minister at the time of the Invasion of Iraq in 2003. Fischer says that unless Iran agrees immediately to all the conditions that are being made of it on the nuclear fuel enrichment issue, it faces the possibility of an imminent military attack from Isreal. Fischer then goes on to say that the attack in imminent because Israel can be sure of it's window of opportunity only while Bush is still in office...."

Jim Jubak

"The first domino to fall was American Airlines which decided that it was going to charge $15 for the first bag you checked. This is on top of the $25 fee you pay for the second bag you check. That $25 fee is pretty much becoming standard in the industry. Everyone in the industry knows that charging for check baggage like this, especially the first bag, is really gonna make customers, who are already angry, absolutely furious. So why do it?"

Alberta's Oil Sands

And over the next 10 years up to 50 billion dollars will be invested to develop it. It is the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta, Canada. This is the story from its discover through to the present day.

There are at lease 300 billion barrels of recoverable oil in the oil sands, about 15 percent more than the proven oil supply in Saudi Arabia. Canada produces as much oil per day as Kuwait and is the number one supplier of oil to the United States.

"Pay Dirt: Alberta's Oil Sands - Making the Unconventional Conventional" tells the dramatic story behind the development of the Alberta oil sands, the largest oil reserve in the world, projected to one day yield five million barrels of oil a day.