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Carter: Iraq One of Greatest Blunders (Jimmah Traitor ALERT!!!)
NewsMax ^ | 29 November 2006

Posted on 11/28/2006 8:50:57 PM PST by Aussie Dasher

Former President Jimmy Carter believes the Iraq war ranks as one of the "greatest blunders" in U.S. presidential history.

Speaking on CNN, Carter said: "I think that the original invasion of Iraq, and all of its consequences, yes, were a blunder. It's going to prove, I believe to be one of the greatest blunders that American presidents have ever made."

When asked if it was a bigger foreign-policy mistake than the Vietnam War, he said: "I think it is going to be a close call ... but perhaps much more vividly known by the rest of the world than Vietnam was."

Carter also said the conflict between rival factions in Iraq isn't a "civil war."

"I think a civil war is a more serious circumstance than exists in Iraq," he said.

Carter suggested that President Bush find a way to pull out of Iraq that would be considered a "victory" by agreeing to an international conference on the war.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carter; iraq; jimmah; traitor
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No Jimmah, electing YOU was the biggest mistake!
1 posted on 11/28/2006 8:51:03 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
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To: Aussie Dasher

Well, if anyone knows blunders, .. nuff said


2 posted on 11/28/2006 8:52:13 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ...... Kyl / Cornyn in '08)
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To: Aussie Dasher

OMG I am so glad that in 1980 Jimmy Carter got b***hslap by former Warner Bros actor

HEY JIMMY go build a house for the poor


3 posted on 11/28/2006 8:52:26 PM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Mr. Carter is Goofy.


4 posted on 11/28/2006 8:53:17 PM PST by x_plus_one (Franklin Graham: "Allah is not the God of Moses. Allah had no son")
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To: Aussie Dasher
"No Jimmah, electing YOU was the biggest mistake!"

Ditto! Everytime I see that mouthful of teeth I think it needs a fishhook.

5 posted on 11/28/2006 8:53:36 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Aussie Dasher

Isn't he dead yet?

What's taking so long?


6 posted on 11/28/2006 8:55:32 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Aussie Dasher
He meant Iran, didn't he?
7 posted on 11/28/2006 8:56:08 PM PST by RichInOC (Jimmy Carter drove me to become a conservative Republican and I never got the chance to thank him.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Electing Jimmah was the BIGGEST BLUNDER!!!


8 posted on 11/28/2006 8:56:50 PM PST by DakotaRed (Kerry Should Resign!)
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To: Aussie Dasher
You are totally right about that.

I think the media feeds Carter the Simpleton his lines just so it will look ligitimate when they print it or report it. Actually, few if any really care what Jimmy Carter thinks.

9 posted on 11/28/2006 8:58:27 PM PST by jerry639
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One peg down on the Senile scale, two on the stupid scale.


10 posted on 11/28/2006 8:59:48 PM PST by wodinoneeye
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To: Aussie Dasher
Grin, two words: "Desert One"

Maybe Iraqi is bigger and costlier, but President Bush is taking care of business, not leaving it to the next guy to clean up.

11 posted on 11/28/2006 8:59:49 PM PST by CodeMasterPhilzar
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Victory to a liberal is 'retreat'......


12 posted on 11/28/2006 9:00:41 PM PST by wodinoneeye
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To: Aussie Dasher
Jimmy is not an honest man, which is interesting because he was elected on a "trust me" platform. If you were alive during Vietnam, and Jimmy was, you are flat out lying to state the world will more vividly remember Iraq.

There was a world wide left wing movement against the Vietnam war, instigated in large part by the Soviet Union, and we had daily protests including Washington DC being taken over by hundreds of thouands, shootings on campuses, and the violent disruption of the Dem convention in Chicago.

Jimmuh is an out and out liah.

13 posted on 11/28/2006 9:03:10 PM PST by Williams
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To: Aussie Dasher
This coming from a man who loves terrorists.


And only won 6 states in 1980.

14 posted on 11/28/2006 9:03:17 PM PST by Cobra64 (Why is the War on Terror being managed by the DEFENSE Department?)
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To: SevenofNine
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15 posted on 11/28/2006 9:03:41 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ...... Kyl / Cornyn in '08)
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To: Aussie Dasher
Actually Jimmuh Dum de Dum Carter, one of the biggest blunders in history is your Presidency. It was a total disaster and nearly sank the country under a cloud of malaise. Second to your handling of the economy, long gas lines, high unemployment, and sky high interest rates comes your dreadful foreign policy performance with letting the mullahs take over Iran, then rub your nose in it by taking our embassy hostage ... where you did exactly nothing for over a year.

Go out and slay some wabbits, it's about all you are good for.
16 posted on 11/28/2006 9:06:51 PM PST by Tarpon
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To: Aussie Dasher

The invasion wasn't a blunder. Tying Rummy's hands was a huge blunder -- but we don't need (ex)President Blunder in Human Form telling us about it.


17 posted on 11/28/2006 9:07:44 PM PST by ellery (The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. - Edmund Burke)
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To: Aussie Dasher
THE biggest blunder of the 20th century was allowing the Shah to fall to the Jihadis.

That'll be Carter's legacy...a nuclear Iran hostile to western civilization.

18 posted on 11/28/2006 9:07:57 PM PST by Mariner
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Ditto! Everytime I see that mouthful of teeth I think it needs a fishhook.


19 posted on 11/28/2006 9:07:58 PM PST by Cobra64 (Why is the War on Terror being managed by the DEFENSE Department?)
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To: Aussie Dasher
Carter's legacy:


20 posted on 11/28/2006 9:10:00 PM PST by Cobra64 (Why is the War on Terror being managed by the DEFENSE Department?)
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To: All

The democrats are going to be doing everything they can to make iraq OFFICIALY a disaster before they take control of the houses, they don't want it to look like ANYTHING they screw up is their fault. Its remarkable how the body count has begun to climb as they started there cut and run song and dance....


21 posted on 11/28/2006 9:11:17 PM PST by uncle fenders
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To: Aussie Dasher

Ditto!


22 posted on 11/28/2006 9:12:14 PM PST by lonestar (Me, too--Weinie)
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To: Aussie Dasher
Carter suggested that President Bush find a way to pull out of Iraq that would be considered a "victory"

Yeah, Carter knows how to do that:


23 posted on 11/28/2006 9:12:39 PM PST by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Jimmy Carter: the president whose policies required the "misery Index" to be invented.


24 posted on 11/28/2006 9:13:16 PM PST by Jackson Brown (Conservatives just killed their racehorse in order to let their fortunes ride on a jackass)
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To: ellery
Tying Rummy's hands was a huge blunder

Ah no that would be another media manufactured myth about Iraq. People really need to learn the diffeence between Counter Insurgency and Conventional War. What would be a blunder would be to use Conventional War doctrine to fight an Asymetrical War. The Russians followed your doctrine in Afganistan. How did that work out for them?

25 posted on 11/28/2006 9:14:41 PM PST by MNJohnnie (I do not forgive Senator John McCain for helping destroy everything we built since 1980.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Hey Billy beer was okay beer I taste better ROFL


26 posted on 11/28/2006 9:16:51 PM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: Cobra64

You forgot "Lost Iran"


27 posted on 11/28/2006 9:19:28 PM PST by Just A Nobody (I - LOVE - my attitude problem! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: Aussie Dasher
The biggest blunder a President ever made was by not giving Iran 24 hours to release our hostages, and then unleashing Biblical destruction upon them if they did not comply.

Who was President then? Some corn-pone peanut farmer who fancied himself a "nucular enginyeer".

28 posted on 11/28/2006 9:19:32 PM PST by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: uncle fenders
The democrats are going to be doing everything they can to make iraq OFFICIALY a disaster before they take control of the houses, they don't want it to look like ANYTHING they screw up is their fault.

That goes right along with NBC's decision to now refer to Iraq as a civil war. I'm sure the rest of the ENEMEDIA will follow along shortly.

29 posted on 11/28/2006 9:21:53 PM PST by Just A Nobody (I - LOVE - my attitude problem! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: Aussie Dasher
Worst President ever. Worst Ex-President ever.
30 posted on 11/28/2006 9:21:54 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares
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To: Just A Nobody
You forgot "Lost Iran"

Sorry. This is the best I could scrounge up:


31 posted on 11/28/2006 9:24:29 PM PST by Cobra64 (Why is the War on Terror being managed by the DEFENSE Department?)
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To: Cobra64
In addition to the disasters you've listed, don't forget Carter's granting amnesty to all the deserters who avoided the draft by fleeing to Canada during the Vietnam war.

I'm thinking he likely also got F'n Kerry his "Honorable" discharge at the same time.

32 posted on 11/28/2006 9:29:37 PM PST by Zman516 ("Allah" is Satan, actually.)
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To: Aussie Dasher
I was going to say what you said, but now I'll just say consider the source, as they say.This criticism is out of the mouth of one of the worst presidents ever.

Carter never got over losing to Reagan, one of our greatest presidents ever. He's one of the most bitter, sorest sports in American history. Too bad the country has to continue paying for his well deserved loss.

33 posted on 11/28/2006 9:31:08 PM PST by TAdams8591
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To: Cobra64

Great post, and so true! : )


34 posted on 11/28/2006 9:34:20 PM PST by TAdams8591
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To: TAdams8591
Carter never got over losing to Reagan, one of our greatest presidents ever. He's one of the most bitter, sorest sports in American history. Too bad the country has to continue paying for his well deserved loss.

Algore is the same story. Coincidence?

35 posted on 11/28/2006 9:35:25 PM PST by Zman516 ("Allah" is Satan, actually.)
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To: Cobra64
Jimmuh “Peanut Boy” Carter -- Every dictator's Toilet Brush !!!


36 posted on 11/28/2006 9:36:05 PM PST by quark
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To: Aussie Dasher
Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin."

 
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/20935.html
 

37 posted on 11/28/2006 9:40:07 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Cobra64

When it comes to the greatest blunders, Jimmy Carter holds the top ten in perpetuity -- that nobody will ever come close to breaking.

Isn't it hilarious how the mainstream media parades Jimmy Carter as their icon of how a great leader ought to be?

They must think we have such short-term memories as to forget all the history most of us lived through.

But beyond that, hundreds of millions of people were killed in the wars and hostilities of the 20th century, while relatively few have been lost in this way since the beginning of the 21st century -- yet the mainstream media, led by their idiot savant, would have us believe that there's never been such a calamitous loss of lives in the history of the world as has occurred in attempting to bring democracy to Iraq.


38 posted on 11/28/2006 9:40:42 PM PST by MikeHu
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To: Aussie Dasher

No Jimmy . Your dad not shooting that load in the sink was the biggest blunder


39 posted on 11/28/2006 9:41:10 PM PST by sonic109
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To: Cobra64

You guys have the best pictures LOL


40 posted on 11/28/2006 9:42:19 PM PST by Irisshlass
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To: Aussie Dasher

Carter, One of AMerica's Greatest Blunders, says more Traitorous Stupidity


41 posted on 11/28/2006 9:42:38 PM PST by WOSG (The 4-fold path to save America - Think right, act right, speak right, vote right!)
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To: Cobra64

Look at the look on Mrs Bush's face ..Looks like she's saying to herself ,"shut up A -hle".


42 posted on 11/28/2006 9:43:04 PM PST by sonic109
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To: TAdams8591

In addition to the high interest rates, remember the gas lines - unbelievable!



I'd like to say something nice about James Earl Carter now.







I'd like to







I really would






Sorry can't think of anything.



43 posted on 11/28/2006 9:43:41 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: CaptainK

"Isn't he dead yet? What's taking so long?"

Waiting for Castro. The man is ever so polite when it comes to commie dictators: "You first". Castro needs to go first.


44 posted on 11/28/2006 9:43:57 PM PST by WOSG (The 4-fold path to save America - Think right, act right, speak right, vote right!)
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To: george76

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Sorry can't think of anything.
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He helped give America RONALD REAGAN.

Thank you Jimmah.


45 posted on 11/28/2006 9:44:40 PM PST by WOSG (The 4-fold path to save America - Think right, act right, speak right, vote right!)
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To: Mariner; All
Great reading on Carter:

http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=244423511626964&view=1

46 posted on 11/28/2006 9:47:15 PM PST by Cobra64 (Why is the War on Terror being managed by the DEFENSE Department?)
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To: Aussie Dasher

From the guy who hid in the Rose Garden while Iran held hostages. I am so sick of these lefty wussies.


47 posted on 11/28/2006 9:48:05 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Repeal the 17th Amendment)
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To: Aussie Dasher
I know Carter because he did away with the USAF Veterinary Service because our organization caught the US Army Veterinary Service taking bribes from Defense Contractors. Now we have Army Veterinarians on USAF bases and because of the service divisions, the veterinary service to the USAF is more inefficient than before the change up. Carter's decision was finally finished in 1982 and the USAF veterinarians had to go to the Army, go to the BSC, or get out. The USAF was in control of the Working Dog program at Lackland, biomedical research at Randolph, Ft. Sam Houston, and White Sands which is now controlled by the Army. What a cluster sexual act.
48 posted on 11/28/2006 9:52:47 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: Aussie Dasher

Jimmy Carter should not be drinking cans of his brother's beer at this late date.


49 posted on 11/28/2006 9:53:25 PM PST by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: MikeHu

If the United States wasn't in force in Iraq and Afghanistan, they'd have to be involved in the Middle East on some more unfavorable terms and conditions than they are now. That's just the reality of the situation there.

Sure, it would be nice if all Americans could be home for Christmas and murderous terrorists would just be nice and behave themselves -- but unfortunately, it's not going to happen anytime soon and so the presence in Iraq and Afghanistan prevents the volatile situation gaining momentum out of control -- as the best of the choices we have to make.

The Democrat/liberals seem to have convinced the media that the choice is between a perfect world of their wildest fantasies (including that Jimmy Carter is president and everything goes right) and the present course which is quite remarkable considering that the world isn't perfect.


50 posted on 11/28/2006 9:54:51 PM PST by MikeHu
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