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** FILE ** Actor Clint Eastwood addresses an empty chair at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird announces Canada is breaking diplomatic relations with Iran during an availability at the APEC Summit in Vladivostok, Russia, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. Baird said Friday that the Canadian embassy in Tehran will close immediately and Iranian diplomats in Canada have been given five days to leave. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press,Adrian Wyld)
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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney boards his campaign plane for an event in Iowa on Friday, Sept. 7, 2012, in Portsmouth, N.H. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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** FILE ** In this Aug. 30, 2012, file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
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**FILE** Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the militant group the Haqqani network, speaks Aug. 22, 1998, during an interview in Miram Shah, Pakistan. (Associated Press)
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In this Aug. 22, 2012, file photo, Scott Marshall, top, of Calhoun, Ga., files for unemployment, in Dalton, Ga. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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President Obama hugs first lady Michelle Obama after accepting his party's nomination for a second term as President of the United States during the Democratic National Convention in the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., on Sept. 6, 2012. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D- Fla., joins former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in saying the Pledge of Allegiance on the night that President Barack Obama accepts his party's nomination for a second term as President of the United States at the Democratic National Convention in the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday, September 6, 2012.(Barbara Salisbury/ The Washington Times)