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TheBreeze
ParticipantWow! 5000 residential home loans may go into foreclosure within the next several months. Unreal.
Look out below!
ParticipantSo we’ve got one vote for “divide and conquer” and another vote for “kill ’em all”.
The problem with “divide and conquer” is that Bush’s actions have not further divided the Middle East, but will in fact result in Iran obtaining even greater influence. Before Saddam was taken out, Iraq was controlled by Sunnis. Now that Saddam is gone, the Shias have seized power. As you may know, Iran is also a Shia country. In fact, Iran and the new Islamic Shia government in Iraq are already beginning to join forces:
But he said that the Iranians were in Iraq because “the two countries agreed to solve the security problems.” The Iranians “went to meet with the Iraqi side,” he said.
In a surprise announcement, Mr. Qumi said Iran would soon open a national bank in Iraq, in effect creating a new Iranian financial institution right under the Americans’ noses. A senior Iraqi banking official, Hussein al-Uzri, confirmed that Iran had received a license to open the new bank, which Mr. Uzri said would apparently be the first “wholly owned subsidiary bank” of a foreign country in Iraq.
“This will enhance trade between the two countries,” Mr. Uzri said.
Thus, it looks like the “divide and conquer” rationale now espoused by some to justify the war is in fact more vapor just as was the original “WMD” rationale and the later-espoused “democracy” rationale.
The “kill ’em all” strategy might work if all the terrorists in the world were living in Baghdad, but that is not the case. There are terrorits living in Afghanistan, Iran, Africa, Europe — most of the 9/11 terrorists were from Saudi Arabi. North Korea has supposedly developed a nuclear weapon on Bush’s watch and China is ramping up its weapons capabilities. And yet, Bush continues to waste $100s of billions on his Iraq boondoggle.
Given all the other threats to our nation, does it really make you feel safer knowing that a signigicant portion of our military resources are being spent on Iraq? I for one feel more vulnerable thinking about the other threats that have been allowed to proliferate while Bush focuses our entire military effort on Iraq.
ParticipantThese two arrived in my mailbox today:
1) 9936 SCRIPPS WESTVIEW WAY #255, SD – Scripps Miramar, CA 92131**
List price: $289,900 – $289,900
Sales History:
05/05/2006: $314,550
12/27/2000: $170,000
10/05/1995: $90,000Bedrooms: 2
Full Baths: 2
Partial Baths: 0
Square Feet: 1,052
Lot Size: N/A
Year Built: 1985
Listing Date: 01/26/07
On Market: 1 day
Type: CONDO/TH
Status: ACTIVE
MLS #: 076007761Description
Back on market!! Bank owned foreclosure!! Upper end unit with area view. Ceramic tile in baths & kitchen. New paint. Fireplace in living room. Located near shops, freeway, schools. Byr2vb4coe all info including hoa. Sold ‘as is’ with no representations or warranties.http://www.zillow.com/HomeDetails.htm?o=North&zprop=16822010
Also note that unit #256 at the same address sold for $350,000 in 2004 (can you say “Haircut”?):
http://www.sdlookup.com/PropertyResults/tabid/58/q/9936+Scripps+Westview+Way/Default.aspx
2) 10612 DABNEY DR. #184, SD – Mira Mesa, CA 92126**
List Price: $292,000 – $310,000
Sales History:
05/20/2004: $305,000
10/07/2002: $225,000
07/17/1998: $84,000Bedrooms: 2
Full Baths: 2
Partial Baths: 0
Square Feet: 920
Lot Size: N/A
Year Built: 1990
Listing Date: 01/25/07
On Market: 2 days
Type: CONDO/TH
Status: ACTIVE
MLS #: 078007745Description:
Dual master suites with private bathrooms. Washer/dryer in unit. Carpet on floors. A must see! All measurements approximate buyer to verify bcoe. Subject to lenders approval for short sale.http://www.zillow.com/HomeDetails.htm?zprop=16790534
It looks like the seller has been using their house as an ATM.
ParticipantWow. From 14 to 6.5 in 5 days:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=CFHI&t=5d
Liquidity crunch thy name is Coastal Financial Holdings.
ParticipantYeah, that jg is one helluva intellect, what with his ability to change the ‘b’ in ‘Obama’ to an ‘s’ in order to spell ‘Osama’. I bet if you spotted him the ‘c’ and the ‘a’ he’d have a 33% chance of spelling ‘cat’.
ParticipantAre you in second grade or something?
Are you trying to say that my IQ is equivalent to the President’s?
Don’t worry jg. Barack will be in the White House before you know it and Bush’s nightmarish 8 years will be just a forgotten bad memory — just like his pathetic excuse for a speech tonight.
ParticipantIt was never proven that Bush did coke.
So you think Bush was born retarded then? Interesting.
ParticipantThanks SD. There’s quite a few pendings in there. That makes me think that the UTC market still has quite a few interested buyers. Is that what you’ve been seeing in that area?
ParticipantThanks SD. Here’s the MLS Numbers:
066070818
066098007
066077318
066095599
066088836
066095159
061059364
061081631
066083201
066010332
066088382
066090409ParticipantBush was demonized because all that blow obviously affected his mental acuity. Either that or he was born retarded.
January 18, 2007 at 11:44 PM in reply to: Hard for American People to Understand; Cracked Egg #43785ParticipantIt makes me happy that the person, Saddam Hussein and his entourage are no longer in power anywhere, since he is of the same genre as Hitler -though not as powerful. I don’t understand why anyone would say the world would be the same or better off had we left him where he was…in power as a brutal dictator. The idea of his brand of terror against individuals with his unbridled brutality—-going unchecked—sickens me. The spread of it would be tragic.
SHILOH,
Have you heard about the people being found dead in Iraq NOW with holes drilled in their knees? Who do you think is doing that? Do you think Saddam has come back from the dead to perpetuate these crimes?
The U.S. hasn’t done anything by removing Saddam. It’s projected that 34,000 people will be murdered in Iraq this year. Over 100,000 have been killed since the war began. Do you think Iraq is some kind of fairyland where everyone gets along now that the evil Saddam is gone? Wrong. All that Bush has done is replace a brutal dictator with a Shiite puppet government that implicitly sponsors Shiite death squads. Subtle “ethnic cleansing” (I hate that word) is going on every day in Iraq now. Shiite militias and death squads have been incorporating themselves into the Iraqi army and police since at least 2005.
The only difference between Iraq now and Iraq under Saddam is that Bush is sponsoring the brutality that takes place in Iraq now.
January 18, 2007 at 11:18 PM in reply to: Hard for American People to Understand; Cracked Egg #43783ParticipantWhat really sucks about the costs of Bush’s War is not only all the good that money could have done right here in America, but also that Bush spent all this money and put our country in a worse situation than it otherwise would have been. So it’s not just that Bush took $1.2 trillion and essentially flushed it down the toilet. He also took some portion of that money and handed it directly to the terrorists.
For example, Iran (controlled by Shiites) is absolutely giddy that the U.S. took out the Sunni government in Iraq and replaced it with a Shiite-controlled government. Iran had very little influence in Iraq when Saddam and other Sunnis were in control, but now Iran will have major influence in Iraq going forward. Basically Bush’s idiotic policies have greatly expanded Iranian influence in the Middle East.
ParticipantThanks for bringing up Clinton, jg. Whenever I start to feel down about the current state of affairs, I just think back to the glorious Clinton years: A booming economy; lowest federal deficits ever; worldwide peace; putting an end to the Kosovo crisis; lowering crime rates; environmental stewardship; cutting federal beuracracy; etc. Wow, just thinking about those days fills my heart with joy. The Great President Clinton was truly a man among men. Not only was he a Rhodes Scholar, but he was a great orator and a tremendous statesman.
Contrast that with Bush: drug addict; only admitted to Yale because of family connections; a failed businessman; ignored a report about the dangers of Al Qaeda in the summer of 2001; vacations 9 months per year; started a disastrous war with Iraq; created a new prescription drug entitlement program; soaring deficits; can’t string two coherent words together; isolationist; has ostracized all of America’s allies; left Katrina victims to die; nominated Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court; and on and on.
What a tremendous, tremendous failure Bush has been. If this is the best you have to offer jg, I predict that Republicans will be out of power for a long, long time to come after 2008.
By the way, would you have rather been in the military during the Clinton years when hardly any American servicemen were killed while on active duty; or would you rather be in the service now with Bush’s accelerated deployments and mandatory contract extensions so that you could babysit a civil war? And how many allies do we have now in Bush’s War? Isn’t Britain going to pull out all their troops leaving only Poland as the only other country with troops in Iraq? Yep, it must feel good to be a part of Bush’s military today.
ParticipantThe article linked below provides the best explanation I’ve read yet as to why the President chose to start a war with Iraq. Basically, the threat of terrorism was used as a pretext to invade Iraq. The real reason for the invasion was to gain control of Iraq’s vast supply of oil. Further, the President never cared all that much about how the war was prosecuted and how many people were killed so long as Western oil companies were granted access to Iraq’s oil at the end. The Iraqi government is about to pass a law giving western oil companies unbridled access to Iraqi oil, which was the President’s real goal all along.
As stated in the article:
“From those earliest days until now, throughout all the twists and turns, the blood and chaos of the occupation, the Bush Administration has kept its eye on this prize. The new law offers the barrelling buccaneers of the West a juicy set of production-sharing agreements (PSAs) that will maintain a fig leaf of Iraqi ownership of the nation’s oil industry — while letting Bush’s Big Oil buddies rake off up to 75 percent of all oil profits for an indefinite period up front, until they decide that their “infrastructure investments” have been repaid. Even then, the agreements will give the Western oil majors an unheard-of 20 percent of Iraq’s oil profits — more than twice the average of standard PSAs, the Independent notes.”
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/46602/
I think history will show President Bush as having been one of the most immoral presidents in history. It’s pretty clear that Iraq was never a threat to us given that they didn’t have any WMDs and had no ability to make them. The real threat to our way of life today is individual terrorists and terrorist cells. Given the instability created by Bush in the Middle East, I fear that many, many young men who might have chosen a different path will now align themselves with Al Qaeda or some other terrorist group. All it takes is for one of them to get their hands on some kind of suitcase nuke and to bring it into the U.S. for our country to be irretrievably damaged. Additionally, not only has Bush’s War created more terrorists, but his immoral acts in prosecuting his war have likely inflamed the terrorits making them even more dangerous than they were before. We can’t get this guy out of office soon enough in my opinion.
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