Surely you didn't think you could leave an IraQ that wouldn't be influenced by Iran. The population of Iraq are majority shiite, certain things are obvious in a hostile world and one is where you form alliances. The conflict in Syria is shiite v sunni, the conflict in Iraq is now shiite v sunni, I predict Iraq will break up into states for each of its peoples, and the map of the middle east may be changed with a break up of Syria too. this is the only way to settle the conflict.

It doesn't suit the US to start a fight with Iran, they want to unravel from Afghanistan not be embroiled in a middle east war

It's another mistake by a former President resurrected again! (AGAIN)

Obama administration pushes banks to make home loans to people with weaker credit (Didn’t we do this already? It didn’t end well.)

AND... he was in it up to his armpits the first time around too... in the only court case anyone has ever found where he was ever in front of a judge in a courtroom.

The article is from April 2013. Here's the actual facts, no spin - just the actual source:
Remarks of Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury for Housing Finance Policy Michael Stegman at the 2013 American Securitization Forum (ASF)

Not nearly as nefarious as previously posted.

if the policy is to help people why wouldn't they want people to take the opportunities presented by a depressed housing market

You can be both strict in lending and fair. The problem was the banks had too many tricks and traps and in some cases were criminal in their greed. Had they been fair there would have been no mortgage crisis in the first place and people would have homes they could afford.

Goes back to the SEC allowing illegitimate and illegal derivative bundling practices, selling junk as blue chip on a global scale.

Proof Obama was involved in causing the housing disaster in 1995

Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Fed. Sav. Bank | Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse

Everything on the court docket case on that link showing Obama as being part of it... and this lead to banks being forced to give loans to people who weren't qualified to get them.

And this is a link for case law from a Lawschool that has it all. Not what an Obama Appointee is saying (meaning their job is at risk if Obama doesn't like what they say)

This is the root cause of everything that followed.

So going after the banks for criminal practice leads to forcing banks into MORE criminal practice? You just proved that banks have never been fair lenders to minorities.

Berghdal to Banks? Hmmm, not really sure how this connects.

You haven't been here to keep us on topic J. :D

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You haven't been here to keep us on topic J. :D

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Nope, been a little too busy working 60+ hours a week thanks to the changes in the healthcare system caused by Captain Clueless.

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Berghdal to Banks? Hmmm, not really sure how this connects.

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This is Current Events, you can post anything you want anywhere, facts not required. :-)

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This is Current Events, you can post anything you want anywhere, facts not required. :-)

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Really interested in why you like stirring up the POO rather than having an intelligent discussion.

Oh, it's because you CAN'T have an intelligent discussion. Sorry, my bad.

Who peed in your cornflakes? :-)

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Back to the subject then, if Bergdahl was your son would you want him freed from his captors and come home? Even if he were called all kinds of names with no proof? Of course you would. Would you care about freeing him in exchange for 5 captured enemies by Pakistani's for 5 grand a head 12 years ago? I doubt it mom.

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Who peed in your cornflakes? :-)

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That's okay Puddin. You don't have the capacity to value anyone's opinion but your own.

let's face it those pakistani's are likely to be more trouble to Pakistan than they are to anyoneelse, sort of poetic justice

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Back to the subject then, if Bergdahl was your son would you want him freed from his captors and come home? Even if he were called all kinds of names with no proof? Of course you would. Would you care about freeing him in exchange for 5 captured enemies by Pakistani's for 5 grand a head 12 years ago? I doubt it mom.

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No proof? Have you been hiding under a rock?

The emperor has to do what is in the best national interest . He cannot cloud his judgment with empathetic thoughts for the parents over the larger interests of the nation. Anyway you slice it ;that was a poor deal . It was only made because the emperor was determined to release them .

Why doesn't he just tell the truth ? The reason he made this deal is because he's looking for an exit out of Afghanistan that doesn't turn into the Massacre of Elphinstone's Army.

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The reason he made this deal is because he's looking for an exit out of Afghanistan that doesn't turn into the Massacre of Elphinstone's Army.

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These days they have the ability to pull the troops out with aircraft, and there is the ANA, so no massacre. The deal was done, I suspect, in the interests of dialogue becuase when they leave they don't want the war to continue. Pakistan has begun an offensive against militants which will force many over the border, pity they hadn't done it long ago but they know that with the US target out of the picture they need to be more proactive.

Ok they could have got a better deal, but they didn't

the Ruskies lost 5,000 just crossing a common border. An air lift out involves cooperation with Putin and leaving a lot of equipment behind . As you know ,the emperor is not really in speaking terms with Vladdy these days . That reset button is stuck on stupid.

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Pakistan has begun an offensive against militants which will force many over the border, pity they hadn't done it long ago but they know that with the US target out of the picture they need to be more proactive.

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Their ISI runs the Haqqani network so I doubt they are doing a major offensive against them. They will instead aim at targets that are a direct threat to the Pakis ;not the US or Afghanistan gvt. So any "successful " offensive will be of limited value.

Finally ,the idea of a Paki hammer and coalition forces anvil may have been successful when the coalition was at full strength . But the forces left are too small to prevent the escape of the militants through the porous Afghan border. In fact ,the Pakis left plenty of time before executing this offensive for the bulk of the jihadi's to escape.

Tom the americans always seem to leave equipment behind so sell the afghans those worn out recycled tanks and what's a few trucks anyway you are not giving away any secrets by leaving them, you forget the battleground has changed and the drone is on the frontline. It just takes logistics to get the men out and you are good at moving stuff around

I assure you that the emperor is looking for safe passage out ;and this type of ransom is right up his alley . The emperor also wants to empty Gitmo ;so expect to see more of these one sided deals.

you are just chuffed because someone looks like they got a better deal, you might try seeing it from a different view, these men are no longer your problem and you have yet to see whether they are anyone's problem afterall you get no marks for being caught when you are part of a terrorist organisation

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they will get a heroes welcome and assume their place in the command structure . And yes they are our problem As we found out ;we can't assume that things that take place in the outlands of the world will not have a direct impact on us.

They spent ten years in detention in a place worse than the worst supermax prison and for the most part all they were doing was defending their country, Tom you really need to get some perspective, there are worse things that have not been prosectured

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it was Club GITMO . They were served good food and have gotten superior health care than our Vets get from the VA

I don't think any of that is accurate.

VA Gives Gitmo Terrorists Better Medical Care Than U.S. Veterans | Judicial Watch

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=43686

Get more doctors for regular citizens especially vets, and close gitmo. DUH!! Naw, we can't process them to a regular supermax prison, we just can't do that!!!!!!!!!!!!

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it was Club GITMO . They were served good food and have gotten superior health care than our Vets get from the VA

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propaganda but if it is true you as nation need to hang your heads in shame and give back to those who gave it for you. I've seen the pictures, men in cages and legirons, in heavy clothing in a tropical place. If you think GITMO is humane you need to spend a lot of time in reflection.

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How? You planning on dictating which specialty a Med School grad takes? Or were you going to "reassign" specialists from EENT to head trauma and PTSD? That's the problem with all your schemes, Commissar. Individuals have no place in them.

medicine used to be a caring profession now it's just money so you want to get doctors into these places pay them

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to a regular supermax prison, we just can't do that!!!!!!!!!!!!

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They are illegal combatants not subject the civilian prosecution ..duh!! we can't have military tribunals ,we just can't do that!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The goal is to lock 'em up! The feds do it very well. IT WORKS, no matter the titles. They wouldn't be enemy combatants if you stop sending armies into their country.

But I don't expect you to acknowledge your(OUR) part in cause and effect.

so in other words we should not have invaded Afghanistan after 9-11 ?

Going after terrorists who attacked us was fine, until we ran to Iraq on dumb sh!t that has proved to be dumb sh1t as even Meagan Kelly on Fox says was some dumb sh1t right to Cheney's face.

I give her credit for doing it.

but we are talking about Taliban and AQ detainees ;not Iraqis . They've never been detained at GITMO .

We got the guy who attacked us and blew the taliban who harbored him to hell, mission over time to come home and move beyond this and let the afghans/pakistanis and any other tribe in between deal with their own sh1t.

AQ is an organization not an individual. They are as big a threat to us today as they were in 2001 . The Taliban is not destroyed .Where do you get that from ? What you are really saying is that we concede . Here's the leaders we captured . Please don't attack us again...