Carter Defends Handling of Hostage Crisis

Associated Press ^ | 11/16/09 | MICHAEL CASEY

[Jimmy Valentine]

Damned senile old drooler!

And that was when he was IN the White House.

[b4its2late]

Great, now there's a newer version of this in the WH - goes to show you that you can't teach an old (and senile) dog new tricks.

[NotSoModerate]

But I felt in the process it was likely the hostages' lives would be lost, and I didn't want to kill 20,000 Iranians

In other words, he saved or created 20,000 lives.

[LomanBill]

>>The Khomeini radical revolution would have been suppressed

 

Uh, yeah.  That's an understatement.

 

Given that Carter FUNDED the islamic revolution of 1979.

 

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Brzezinski+Carter+Cyclone&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

 

The Taliban, Afghanistan, The Hostage Crisis, Al Queda - ALL OF IT goes back to the Peanut Farmer and his NSA, ZBigniew Brzenski.

 

So, unless he wants to fess up and take responsibility, Jimmuh should just HANG THE ALBATROSS AROUND HIS NECK AND STFU!

 

 

[EGPWS]

Carter acknowledged that his failure to bring the hostages home — including a botched rescue mission in which eight U.S. servicemen died — led to his election defeat to President Ronald Reagan in 1980.

Bu!!shirt!

It was just a small portion of his failures as POTUS.

[Doogle]

[jeltz25]

notice how he says he could have destroyed Iran with HIS weaponry. What an egotistical lout. It’s not his weaponry. the same ego Obama has.

[IGBT]

hay seed jimmy carter gets full credit for ushering in radical islam into iran and byond. he created a vacuum that allowed komini to return to Iran after the us failed to support the shah. all radical islamic activity in the middle east is the result of carters recklessness.

[John W]

"Obviously, if I had rescued the hostages or they had not been taken, I would have been re-elected."

[devolve]

[plain talk]

"Obviously, if I had rescued the hostages or they had not been taken, I would have been re-elected."

That's a bold-faced lie. He mishandled the economy big time and people looked at him as an idealist fool yapping about human rights all the time.

[cva66snipe]

Maybe if he had attacked Iran back then we wouldn’t be having the problems we have today.

Maybe if Ford and Carter hadn't signed EO's taking assassination of foreign heads of state off the ALLOWED acts list we would not have seen a sudden huge increase in state sponsored terrorism that followed immediately afterward. Carter was pathetic as POTUS but Ford was his political twin brother.

[Danae]

I am taking a history class from Stephan Bacon, he was THERE at Desert 1. I take offense at Carters remarks for his sake, and the sake of all the heroes that were there, and those who lost their lives.

Carter was a micro managing incompetent jerk. He still is.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Exactly. This must be the rationalization he uses to avoid having to deal with some hard facts about the failure of his philosophy and his presidency. He failed because he was arrogant, and he continues to climb on the world stage because he is somewhat narcissistic.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Sadly, Obama is making Carter look good, politically speaking.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

OK! What I get from the article is that ole Jimmuh is still a complete idiot! Some things never change.

[RepublitarianRoger2]

“Obviously, if I had rescued the hostages or they had not been taken, I would have been re-elected.”

Yeah, sure, Jimmuh. The more you try to save your legacy, the more pathetic you sound. You weren't re-elected mainly because of massive inflation and because of a certain unstoppable political tidal wave called Reagan Country.

[glock rocks]

"Obviously, if I had rescued the hostages or they had not been taken, I would have been re-elected."

Right, you horse's ass... and if you hadn't been elected, the Shah wouldn't have been overthrown by islamofascists, and we'd still have Panama.

[tet68]

Lester was ten times the man Carter was and in the end
he found his heart in the right place. The same can’t
be said for Carter.

[AnAmericanMother]

Jimmuh was not fit to shine Lester Maddox's shoes.

I knew Maddox personally, and he was an old school seg in politics but he was a good, honest man. If that seems contradictory, welcome to the South. You had plenty of good men in that generation who talked the segregationist line, but would have given their shirt to anybody in trouble -- white OR black.

He was the first governor to appoint a black man to statewide office (he said even though he believed in segregation that the government was supposed to be by and for ALL the people), his office door was open to all (you could just give your name to his secretary and walk on in), and he left office poorer than he came in.

The news media just repeat "Lester Maddox was an evil racist" ad nauseam, and far too many people have bought into it.

I'd have trusted him in a minute rather than a snake like Carter who talks a sanctimonious line of bilge but was (and is) a closet racist. He stabbed plenty of folks in the back in his day.