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docteur, you always make me smile. As a quick side note (sorry it is off topic), did you pick the parents to whom you were born? If yes, did you choose to be a boy? Do you believe in reincarnation?

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I recall that many units were having difficulty maintaining their equipment because of budget cuts during Clinton’s tenure. I wonder how many of those deaths can be traced to poor maintenance or training because of lack of funds.

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It is a flip flop.

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I agree too, wholeheartedly. They know that many Americans just want to quit. This adds oxygen to their fire and sucks the breath from our soldiers.

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ooops, I meant to say house buying and/or selling.

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If I was in your situation, Kiki, I’d try somewhere new. You might find a place you love and be able to afford a much better lifestyle. Although it is a cool city, SD is by no means the be all end all!

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Buying a new car is almost always a bad deal. People toss big money in the garbage just by driving it home. If a person wants that new car, it is a good plan to be watchful and buy it from some yahoo who could not afford his payments and has to dump it. Let him take the initial haircut. I also think a person should not buy a car if they can’t pay cash for it.

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Out of the six realtors that have been involved in my house buying and/or purchasing, two were full out crooks, two were honest but not too smart, and two were pretty good.

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I know a lot people who moved to Arizona. I happen to love the desert and would move back to the Phoenix area in a heartbeat. I love how it feels at night in the summer (the days stink but I hate it when it is gloomy here too). I also think the desert is beautiful and there are few things more majestic than the huge, pastel tinged sky of a desert sunset.

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I don’t think there is a problem in debating politics if the forum is headlined as such. If people do not want to read about it, they do not click on the thread.

It is certainly best to keep these discussions off of other threads, like taxes.

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Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr, and Clinton were not on the best of terms with Iran either. They don’t like us. They have not liked us for decades (have they ever liked us?). Bush did not create the dislike. He has not made it any better, I’ll readily admit, but this situation did not magically appear when he was sworn into office.

The entire middleast issue is extraordinarily complex. The problems and issues go way back.

It is too bad that we were not able to keep all other countries from gaining nuclear weapons. But that is a pipe dream. Nuclear weapons equal power. It is best for the world to keep nuclear weapons and other WMD out of the hands of those people who will use them in a preemptive attack. We should slow the spread as much as we can, particularly in countries like Iran and North Korea.

Saddam Hussein used WMD when he gassed the Kurds. He had WMD in the past, Powayseller. WMD give the holder power and influence. I am certain that if he did not currently have any, he was trying to get them. He had them in the past. This is irrefutable.

You previously stated that if he had them, he would have used them. Not necessarily. He may have thought that we would fight for a while and then give up and go away. We did it before. He may have been counting on us doing exactly what you have suggested, give up. If he had used them, we would have found them for sure. It would have been a simple matter for him to squirrel them away in Syria. Plus, it would have been much harder for him to play the martyr if we had found them.

The war happened extremely fast. It took many of his units by surprise and left them in chaos. The Iraqis had fighter jets. They did not use them. They sat on the ground. There weren’t any dogfights over Baghdad.

Do I have incontrovertible proof that he had WMD on Iraqi soil when we started Operation Iraqi Freedom? No. Do you have irrefutable proof that he did not have WMD? No. Stalemate.

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Americans are so busy keeping up with the Joneses that they spend their future. Americans, in general, make good money. With proper management, people should be able to save (except for people in the lower income brackets, they are just trying to survive). I wish people would think about what they are going to need and want when they are 70 while they are drooling over that showy car in the dealer’s lot. People just keep listening that insidious whisper, “Sell your future, buy this car (or granite countertop, or expensive vacation, or new pool, etc)”

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If the RE markets tank, all areas of SD are going to be affected. It might take longer for it to happen in some areas and some areas will see a smaller reduction but no place is immune. When areas drop, they begin to have more value relative to the holdout areas. A lot of people would rather send their kids to school in a school district that ranks slightly lower than pay the ever increasing difference in price. There is a premium for location and schools but it has an end point. The downward trend is likely to be uneven and choppy.

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Hs, no problem. Sometimes I miss things too.

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Lostkitty, it is true that a lot aviators got out because the airlines were hiring. A lot of aviators have since tried to get back in when they lost their jobs. Many of them still fly for the reserves. A lot of people have gotten out because the deployment schedule is intense. That is true. However, there are a lot of great people with great fit reps who have stayed in. It is also very true that there are a lot of people with crappy fitness reports who got out because they knew they had no future. Your statement comes across as very self-congratulatory and elitist.

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