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Carter Ties U.S. Presence, Iraq Bloodshed
2004-09-23
Former President Dhimmi Carter said Wednesday that the apparent open-ended presence of U.S. troops in Iraq has contributed to the wave of hostage-takings and other bloodshed. ``A lot of political analysts have said that one of the main reasons the Bush-Cheney administration went into Iraq was to establish a permanent military base there,'' Carter said in an interview with The Associated Press. ``I think this arouses a great deal of unnecessary opposition.''
You don't recall them saying anything about Saddam and liberating 25 million people, do you Dhimmi?
``As much as any president in history, I was afflicted psychologically and politically by the holding of American hostages,'' Carter said. ``So my heart goes out to all those who are involved in a similar crisis, particularly the Hensley family.''
He was so affected by the holding of American hostages in Iran that he couldn't do one thing right to fix the problem.
Carter, who will turn 80 on Oct. 1, said Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry needs to focus his campaign on Iraq and terrorism to defeat President Bush in November. ``The overwhelming issue in this country is the Iraqi war and the war against terrorism and who can address those problems more wisely and more honestly,'' Carter said. ``I think that's the issue that Kerry has to pursue, because, in my opinion, President Bush has not been honest with the American people and has certainly failed in almost everything he professes to be doing in Iraq and in Afghanistan, unfortunately.''
Yeah, Kerry should follow the Carter example [shudder]
Kerry, who trails Bush in most polls, can turn the race's momentum around during three upcoming presidential debates, said Carter, who shocked political analysts in 1976 by going from a relatively unknown Southern governor to winning the White House and then scared the bejeebus out of the rest of us while President.
Posted by:Steve White

#22  One day Mr. Former President and Nobel Peace Prize Winner James Earl Carter is going to be very surprised when he wakes up to find himself in Hell instead of the Heaven he assures us all is his natural home. And Alaska Paul: I am quite certain that some of his personal devils will have the aspects of your friend and his friends, and others will appear to be Israelis and the current generation of Iranian women and university students. And they will set him nukeyular physics problems that will be incapable of solving (yeah, I'm a real bitch, I know ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2004-09-24 12:21:19 AM  

#21  Amy still giving him foreign policy? What an asshole. Most failures know their place. He keeps repeating his mistakes, hoping for a different outcome - i.e.: the very definition of mental illness
Posted by: Frank G   2004-09-23 8:12:17 PM  

#20  And! Yes there's an and! I have cousins who successful sued the family firm for selling shity seed peanuts.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-09-23 7:44:39 PM  

#19  Now, now AP, don't go getting right wing looney on us. Jimmuah was a nukelear engineer who spent seven years in the navy (the US Navy BTW) but I don't think he made officer of the deck.

Say what you will about crazy Lester Maddox, he never dissembled... rarely noted that he called Jimmuah the biggest liar he'd every run across in politics... and that was in 1973.

Posted by: Shipman   2004-09-23 7:43:41 PM  

#18  One of my best friends was in special forces and Halo dropped at night behind Teheran during the hostage crisis. After the debacle in Desert One, the rescue was scrubbed. Carter wrote off my friends team (that already had one drop fatality) and hung them out to dry. They escaped and evaded for 4 months, and eventually linked up with the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan and got home. Carter met my friend at the white house. My friend chewed Carter's ass. He got red as a beet. Needless to say, my friend's marine career was truncated. He said to me that if he had to do it all over again, he would say the same thing.

Ed is right. Carter's indecision on the Iran hostage crisis was the beginning of the nightmare we live in with the Islamofascists.
Posted by: Alaska Paul in Tuntutuliak, AK   2004-09-23 7:36:29 PM  

#17  If anyone is familiar with the taste of failure it sould be Jimmy. I am willing to accept that he is a caring and loving human being. But that caring and loving human being is also partly responsible for the mess the Muddle East is now. Granted the Camp David Accords were a great achievement but in some ways I think they caused the attitudes of the Paleos to become even more entrenched and his attitude towards Iran and the Ayatollah Cocamamie helped set the problems of terrorism today and the destruction of Lebanon
Posted by: Cheaderhead   2004-09-23 5:37:52 PM  

#16  Bzzzzt! Wrong answer, RN, but thanks for playing.

In order for Jimmuh to envy Coffee's, Coffee would have to have one first.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2004-09-23 4:25:49 PM  

#15  Jimmuh forgot to take his PAXIL. The dementia is setting in...
Posted by: BigEd   2004-09-23 2:43:29 PM  

#14  Ah yes, former President Malaise, the infallible guide to foreign policy: take what he says and do the exact opposite.

Domestic policy, too, come to think of it.
Posted by: jackal   2004-09-23 2:03:27 PM  

#13  And we all know whose he envies, don't we, Capt America? :-p

A guess: Kofi Annan
Posted by: RN   2004-09-23 12:57:20 PM  

#12  #4
This just in......former President Carter has been diagnosed as suffering from incurable penis envy.
And we all know whose he envies, don't we, Capt America? :-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2004-09-23 12:50:02 PM  

#11  Every time this guy opens his mouth Bush gets an extra point or two in the polls. Maybe there aren't enough of voters around who remember Vietnam but there sure are a hell of a lot more who remember the Iranian hostage crisis and Carter's ineptitude. Reagan got 8 years based on a lot of his ideas and personality but he also had the least effective President since James Tyler to run against.
Posted by: Jack is Back   2004-09-23 11:15:56 AM  

#10  > He was so affected by the holding of American
> hostages in Iran that he couldn't do one thing
> right to fix the problem.

I have to give Carter credit for at least trying an Entebbe-style rescue, even if it failed miserably. I'm not sure if the Carter of today would have the courage to try it again, though.
Posted by: James   2004-09-23 10:33:48 AM  

#9  I think this article shows the only consistent Kerry campaign theme running: Bush lied.

Every pundit, every show, every photo-op, everywhere - you can say, "the sky blue" and they will respond, "Bush lied".

Stupid. So juvenile.
Posted by: 2B   2004-09-23 9:19:40 AM  

#8   #4 ---"This just in......former President Carter has been diagnosed as suffering from incurable penis envy."

Must be right. It can't be peanut envy.
Posted by: Bryan   2004-09-23 8:33:12 AM  

#7  Shut up and get in the box, Jimmuh...
Posted by: mojo   2004-09-23 7:37:53 AM  

#6  A complete failure as a President offering muddled and off the wall opinions during wartime about our objectives and methods are as Rummy would say "distinctly unhelpful".
Posted by: JerseyMike   2004-09-23 7:17:11 AM  

#5  I think puddin-head needs to rethink his permanent base theory. If there still exists a permanent base proponent in Rumsfeld's Pentagon, that person has barricaded himself in his office and is currently under seige. Does Jimmuh think that the sand is a more asthetically pleasing color in Iraq as opposed to Saudi Arabia?
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-09-23 3:14:10 AM  

#4  ---This just in......former President Carter has been diagnosed as suffering from incurable penis envy.
Posted by: Capt America   2004-09-23 2:59:02 AM  

#3  Ex president Carter who couldn't even and wouldn't even confornt Iran. When it comes to the middle east and radical islam Carter just has no authority to talk the trash he does.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2004-09-23 1:59:34 AM  

#2  Ya'll be prepared to see a number of leftist losers like Carter complaining about the Iraq War in the coming days. Bush is vulnerable on this count, so we will be seeing the usual crazy leftists tearing into Bush about the war.
Posted by: badanov   2004-09-23 1:35:10 AM  

#1  I tie Carter's abject failure in Iran to the beginning of the modern age of Islamic terrorism.
Posted by: ed   2004-09-23 1:30:40 AM  

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