Carter savages Blair and Bush: 'Their war was based on lies'

Drudge Report ^ | March 22, 2004 | Andrew Buncombe

[Bubba_Leroy]

Jimmy Carter, the former US president, has strongly criticised George Bush and Tony Blair for waging an unnecessary war to oust Saddam Hussein based on "lies or misinterpretations". The 2002 Nobel peace prize winner said Mr Blair had allowed his better judgement to be swayed by Mr Bush's desire to finish a war that his father had started.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Article posted at http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=503722

[bolobaby]

I'm starting to get into that "so what?" mode.

When Klintoon lied, he shamed the office of the presidency.

When Bush "lied", he freed two nations from violent, oppressive regimes.

[Viking2002]

OLD. FOOL.

[PRSOrlando]

When will Carter ever get a life?

[DoughtyOne]

Damn, I guess we'll just have to kill the tens of thousands of Iraqis that would have died by now if Hussein and his sons weren't removed from power. Thank God Jimmy Carter is on the job.

< /carter madness >

[crz]

Tha Peanut Farmer better shut up. It was his screw up in that area that caused this mess. What a worthless POT he is!

[Paul Atreides]

Carter never found a butchering dictator, whose butt he wouldn't lick down one street and up the other side. Yet, he never holds back his lies about the current President. With any luck, a Habitat House will fall on him.

[quidnunc]

The Democrats are trying to seize the initiative and to short-circuit Bush's campaign to define Kerry.

[hgro]

Killer rabbit alert!!

[Richard Kimball]

Wow, I get to cut and paste a response I made on another thread:

Heck, we're (and the world) are still paying for Jimmy Carter's Presidency. His primary accomplishments were giving away the Panama Canal and Iran. He showed, as did Lyndon Johnson, that bad enough leadership could squander any advantage. Here is a quote from Jimmy Carter's most famous speech:

So, I want to speak to you first tonight about a subject even more serious than energy or inflation. I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy.

I do not mean our political and civil liberties. They will endure. And I do not refer to the outward strength of America, a nation that is at peace tonight everywhere in the world, with unmatched economic power and military might.

The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our Nation.

The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America.

Compare that to Ronald Reagan's farewell address:

I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it and see it still. And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was eight years ago. But more than that; after 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.

We've done our part. And as I walk off into the city streets, a final word to the men and women of the Reagan revolution, the men and women across America who for eight years did the work that brought America back. My friends: We did it. We weren't just marking time. We made a difference. We made the city stronger. We made the city freer, and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad, not bad at all. And so, good-bye, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.

[The_Macallan]

Jimmy Carter's achievments as President:

DOMESTIC -
* Stagflation - the seemingly impossible combination of negative economic growth and rapid inflation.
* 20% "misery index" (inflation + unemployment)
* 13.5% inflation
* 7.2% unemployment
* 18% mortgage interest rates
* 70% top marginal income tax rate
* 14+% poverty rate
* Formed the Dept. of Education = entrenching the Teachers Union in the Federal Gov't.
* The 1979 "oil crisis" and more gas lines.
* He told America to wear sweaters, turn down the heater to 68 and just do more with less from now on.
* He ran a whopping 23% approval rating during 1980 campaign.
* He lost in a 489 to 49 Electoral landslide for Reagan and Republican control of the Senate in 1980. (Thank God!!)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS -
* Gave us 444 days of non-stop world-wide humiliation at our impotent and ineffectual President.
* Approved a poorly planned and botched "rescue" that only added to America's humilation around the world.
* Watched detente crumble with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
* Pulled out of the 1980 Olympics - for spite.
* Gave away the Panama Canal.
* Never did explain that mysterious $250,000 payment from Libya to his brother Billy.
* Allowed three countries to fall to communism under his watch: Benin, Nicaragua, and Zimbabwe.

Jimmy Carter also favored:
* Equal Rights Amendment
* National Health Insurance
* SALT II missile treaty
* Unilateral disarmament

Jimmy Carter is nothing but a spineless, impotent, embarassingly-ineffectual, gutless, socialist, moronic fool who should never have held any Gov't position higher than a paper-clip sorter for Barney Fife.

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It's Not Just A Gun...

It's My "HOMELAND DEFENSE RIFLE"!!

[FReepaholic]

Carter has a lot of class. Too bad it's all low.

[LasVegasMac]

Keep your liberal yap trap confined to more pressing issues, Jimmah.

Like peanuts.

You are a fine one to talk, you POS.

Remember that little hostage thing during YOUR ADMINISTRATION - ??????

You have absolutely no qualifications to even think about current affairs, let alone open that pie hole and confirm -reaffirm - what we all know.

You, sir, are a waste of time, breath and space.

LVM

[BillyBoy]

Those former RAT governors of Georgia are just soo darn conservative, much more so than most northern Republicans... < /sarcasm>

[txzman]

Translation:

'Democrats believe in the God-less given right to keep 25 million people in perpetual slavery and horror because we did not give our approval'.

If the American people buy this - and I do not think they will based on close contact conversations I have with returning reservists - may God help us all.

[Archangelsk]

The 2002 Nobel peace prize winner said Mr Blair had allowed his better judgement to be swayed by Mr Bush's desire to finish a war that his father had started.

Newsflash to Mr. Carter, the former President (Mr. Bush) ended the first Gulf War in compliance with the mandate and resolution given to him.

[Bubba_Leroy]

The miserable failure will say or do just about anything to get his name in the paper again.

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[1066AD]

". The 2002 Nobel peace prize winner

Awarded for Bush bashing IIRC.

[GNDan]

When will this old fart ever shut up? What an embarrassment

[Dolphy]

The 2002 Nobel peace prize winner said Mr Blair had allowed his better judgement to be swayed by Mr Bush's desire to finish a war that his father had started.

I am so sick of Carter and those that cover him. In order to advance his position he has to decide that Blair was swayed (despite the ferocious disagreement in his party and among the people in the UK) and that the current President is living in some kind of tv mini-series trying only to make things right for his father. Those are the leaps in logic of an adolescent and yet nobody calls Carter on them.