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2004-09-23 Home Front: Politix

Carter Ties U.S. Presence, Iraq Bloodshed

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Posted by Steve White 2004-09-23 12:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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|| 2004-09-23 1:30:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| [http://www.rkka.org/title-boris.gif] 2004-09-23 1:35:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-09-23 1:59:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-23 2:59:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-23 3:14:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-23 7:17:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Shut up and get in the box, Jimmuh...

Posted by mojo 2004-09-23 7:37:53 AM|| 2004-09-23 7:37:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-23 8:33:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-23 9:19:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| [http://www.idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2004-09-23 10:33:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-23 11:15:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-23 12:50:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-23 12:57:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2004-09-23 2:03:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Jimmuh forgot to take his PAXIL. The dementia is setting in...

Posted by BigEd 2004-09-23 2:43:29 PM|| 2004-09-23 2:43:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-23 4:25:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-23 5:37:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-23 7:36:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-23 7:43:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-23 7:44:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-23 8:12:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2004-09-24 12:21:19 AM|| Front Page Top

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