[Rhodes22-list] Political - special post for Stanley since he has some ti...

Sun Oct 5 17:35:58 EDT 2008

Rummy,

Don't you ever get tired of seeing this crap?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-45A6I-N5I

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2001/No-Regrets/

Brad

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 3:59 PM,  <R22RumRunner at aol.com> wrote:
> Blah blah blah and more blah. Don't you ever get tired of writing this  crap?
>
> Rummy
>
>
> In a message dated 10/5/2008 2:57:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> ekroposki at charter.net writes:
>
>
>
> American History By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted  Wednesday, September
> 10, 2008 4:20 PM PT
>
> Jimmy Carter became  our 39th president at the young age of 52.  He was a
> one-term governor  from Plains, GA, where he managed the family peanut farm
> and taught Sunday  school.  He was also a graduate of the Naval Academy and
> served seven  years in the Navy, leaving as a lieutenant.
>
> He came to power in  the aftermath of the Vietnam War and the resignation
> of President  Nixon.  The public wanted change and someone new, and Carter
> was an  ambitious, hands-on politician who promised better days.  As good  as
> his intentions were, however, the things he tried were not  successful.  In
> fact, he created far more serious problems than he  ever solved.
>
> The centerpiece of Carter's foreign policy was  human rights, and he did
> achieve one noble success peace treaty between  Egypt's Anwar Sadat and
> Israel's Menachem Begin.  Unfortunately, that  later led to Sadat's
> assassination at the hands of Muslim radicals.
>
> Many people felt Carter was a good man who worked hard and  meant well.
> But he was naive and incompetent in handling the enormous  burdens and
> complex challenges of being president.
>
> He wrongly  believed Americans had an 'inordinate fear of communism,' so he
> lifted  travel bans to Cuba, North Vietnam and Cambodia and pardoned  draft
> evaders.  He also stopped B-1 bomber production and gave away  our
> strategically located Panama Canal.
>
> His most damaging  miscalculation was the withdrawal of U.S. support for
> the Shah of Iran, a  strong and longtime military ally.  Carter objected to
> the Shah's  alleged mistreatment of imprisoned Soviet spies who were working
> to  overthrow Iran's government.  He thought the exiled Ayatollah  Khomeini,
> being a religious man, would make a fairer leader.
>
> Having lost U.S. support, the Shah was overthrown, the Ayatollah  returned,
> Iran was declared an Islamic nation and Palestinian hit men were  hired to
> eliminate opposition.
>
> The Ayatollah then introduced  the idea of suicide bombers to the Palestine
> Liberation Organization,  paying $35,000 to PLO families whose young people
> were brainwashed to kill  as many Israelis as possible by blowing themselves
> up in crowded shopping  areas.
>
> Next, the Ayatollah used Iran's oil wealth to create,  train and finance a
> new terrorist organization, Hezbollah, which later  would attack Israel in
> 2006.
>
> In November 1979, Mahmoud  Ahmadinejad and other Iranians stormed the U.S.
> embassy in Tehran and took  52 Americans hostage for 444 days.  Not until six
> months into the  ordeal did Carter attempt a rescue.  But the mission, using
> just six  Navy helicopters, was poorly executed.  Three of the copters  were
> disabled or lost in sandstorms.  (Pilots weren't allowed to meet  with
> weather forecasters because someone in authority worried about  security.)
> Five airmen and three Marines lost their lives.
>
> So, due to overconfidence, inexperience and poor judgment,  Carter
> undermined and lost a strong ally, Iran, that today aggressively  threatens
> the U.S., Israel and the rest of the world with nuclear weapons.
>
> But that's not all.  After Carter met for the first time  with Soviet
> leader Leonid Brezhnev, the USSR promptly invaded  Afghanistan.  Carter, ever
> the naive appeaser, was shocked.  'I  can't believe the Russians lied to me,'
> he said. [Does that sound like  Bush's opinion of Putin?]
>
> The invasion attracted a 23-year-old  Saudi named Osama bin Laden to
> Afghanistan to recruit Muslim fighters and  raise money for an anti-Soviet
> jihad.  Part of that group eventually  became al-Qaida, a terrorist
> organization that would declare war on America  several times between 1996
> and 1998 before attacking us on 9/11, killing  more Americans than the
> Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
>
> On  Carter's watch, the Soviet Union went on an unrestrained rampage in
> which  it took over not only Afghanistan, but also Ethiopia, South Yemen,
> Angola,  Cambodia, Mozambique, Grenada and Nicaragua.
>
> In spite of this,  Carter's last defense budget proposed spending 45% below
> pre-Vietnam levels  for fighter aircraft, 75% for ships, 83% for attack
> submarines and 90% for  helicopters.
>
> Years later, as a civilian, Carter negotiated a  peace agreement with North
> Korea to keep that communist country from  developing nuclear weapons.  He
> also convinced President Clinton and  Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
> to go along with it.  But the  signed piece of paper proved worthless.  The
> North Koreans deceived  Carter and instead used our money, incentives and
> technical equipment to  build nuclear weapons and pose the threat we face
> today.
>
> Thus did Carter unwittingly become our Neville Chamberlain, creating  with
> his well-intended but inept, unrealistic and gullible actions the  very
> conditions that led to the three most dangerous security threats we  face
> today:  Iran, al-Qaida and North Korea.
>
> On the  domestic side, Carter gave us inflation of 15%, the highest in 34
> years;  interest rates of 21%, the highest in 115 years; and a severe energy
> crisis  with lines around the block at gas stations nationwide.
>
> In  1977, Carter, along with a Democrat Congress, created a worthy project
> with  noble intentions the Community Reinvestment Act.  Over strong  industry
> objections, it mandated that all banks meet the credit needs of  their entire
> communities.
>
> In 1995, President Clinton imposed  even stronger regulations and
> performance tests that coerced banks to  substantially increase loans to
> low-income, poverty-area borrowers or face  fines or possible restrictions on
> expansion.  These revisions allowed  for securitization of CRA loans
> containing subprime mortgages.
>
> By 1997, good loans were bundled with poor ones and sold as  prime packages
> to institutions here and abroad.  That shifted risk  from the loan
> originators, freeing banks to begin pyramiding and make more  of these
> profitable subprime products.
>
> Under two young,  well-intended presidents, therefore, big-government plans
> and mandates  played a significant role in the current subprime mortgage mess
> and its  catastrophic consequences for the U.S. and international economies.
>
> Hardest-hit by the mortgage foreclosures have been the citizens  that
> Democrats always claim to help most inner-city residents who fell  victim to
> low or no down payment schemes, unexpected adjustable rates,  deceptive loan
> applications and commission-hungry  salespeople.
>
> Now we're having to bail out at huge cost Fannie  Mae and Freddie Mac, the
> very agencies that were supposed to stabilize the  system.  In time, this
> should improve the situation.  But the  party of Carter and Clinton that
> midwifed our mortgage mess now wants to be  trusted to take over and have the
> government run our entire system of  health care!
>
> And everyone is blaming Bush for our current  problems.
>
> Posted by
> Ed K
> For Stan's  enjoyment
>
>
>
>
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