President Carter vs. the Swamp Rabbit
Original on file at the Jimmy Carter Library
Posted on 10/19/2004 7:04:03 PM PDT by notkerry
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you the question about—this is going to cause some trouble with people—but as an historian now and studying the Revolutionary War as it was fought out in the South in those last years of the War, insurgency against a powerful British force, do you see any parallels between the fighting that we did on our side and the fighting that is going on in Iraq today?
CARTER: Well, one parallel is that the Revolutionary War, more than any other war up until recently, has been the most bloody war we‘ve fought. I think another parallel is that in some ways the Revolutionary War could have been avoided. It was an unnecessary war.
Had the British Parliament been a little more sensitive to the colonial‘s really legitimate complaints and requests the war could have been avoided completely, and of course now we would have been a free country now as is Canada and India and Australia, having gotten our independence in a nonviolent way.
I think in many ways the British were very misled in going to war against America and in trying to enforce their will on people who were quite different from them at the time.
For Transcript See http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6281085/
Here is a great link to facts on America's Wars:
http://www.va.gov/pressrel/amwars01.htm
Can someone please file for a court to declare the Peanut Farmer mentally incompetent and thus remove him from the voter rolls?
Carter was the only other president in my lifetime elected out of irrational, freak-fringe hatred of his Republican opponent. And you can see how well that worked.
Tell that to a "Kerry supporter."
It's time for him to go to Shady Pines....
Yeah, very true, I think. It fits right in with the socialistic egalitarianism that the Dems like so well too.
Another reason why Carter thinks the Revolution was unnecessary is probably because, like most leftists, he thinks America herself is unnecessary.
And I suppose if the jerk finds the Iraq war unnecessary, he did not have a problem with leaving Saddam in power.
He is a real snake in the grass.
marktwain wrote:
Carter was elected before there was an internet, at the height of Old Media dominance, just after they had thrown out an elected president in a media coup called "Watergate"
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Nixon resigned because he was about to be shown up as breaking his oath to our Constitution.
The articles of impeachment against Nixon
Address:http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/special/watergate/impeachment.html
Maybe his wife Rosalynn helps him!...OOPS! ;-)
What the hell is this clown talking about now?
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America's Wars: U.S. Casualties and Veterans
| American Revolution (1775–1783) | |
| Total servicemembers | 217,000 |
| Battle deaths | 4,435 |
| Nonmortal woundings | 6,188 |
| War of 1812 (1812–1815) | |
| Total servicemembers | 286,730 |
| Battle deaths | 2,260 |
| Nonmortal woundings | 4,505 |
| Indian Wars (approx. 1817–1898) | |
| Total servicemembers | 106,0001 |
| Battle deaths | 1,0001 |
| Mexican War (1846–1848) | |
| Total servicemembers | 78,718 |
| Battle deaths | 1,733 |
| Other deaths in service (nontheater) | 11,550 |
| Nonmortal woundings | 4,152 |
| Civil War (1861–1865) | |
| Total servicemembers (Union) | 2,213,363 |
| Battle deaths (Union) | 140,414 |
| Other deaths in service (nontheater) (Union) | 224,097 |
| Nonmortal woundings (Union) | 281,881 |
| Total servicemembers (Conf.) | 1,050,000 |
| Battle deaths (Conf.) | 74,524 |
| Other deaths in service (nontheater) (Conf.) | 59,2972 |
| Nonmortal woundings (Conf.) | unknown |
| Spanish-American War (1898–1902) | |
| Total servicemembers | 306,760 |
| Battle deaths | 385 |
| Other deaths in service (nontheater) | 2,061 |
| Nonmortal woundings | 1,662 |
| World War I (1917–1918) | |
| Total servicemembers | 4,734,991 |
| Battle deaths | 53,402 |
| Other deaths in service (nontheater) | 63,114 |
| Nonmortal woundings | 204,002 |
| Living veterans | fewer than 500 |
| World War II (1940–1945) | |
| Total servicemembers | 16,112,566 |
| Battle deaths | 291,557 |
| Other deaths in service (nontheater) | 113,842 |
| Nonmortal woundings | 671,846 |
| Living veterans | 4,762,0001 |
| Korean War (1950–1953) | |
| Total servicemembers | 5,720,000 |
| Serving in-theater | 1,789,000 |
| Battle deaths | 33,741 |
| Other deaths in service (theater) | 2,827 |
| Other deaths in service (nontheater) | 17,730 |
| Nonmortal woundings | 103,284 |
| Living veterans | 3,734,0001 |
| Vietnam War (1964–1975) | |
| Total servicemembers | 8,744,000 |
| Serving in-theater | 3,403,000 |
| Battle deaths | 47,410 |
| Other deaths in service (theater) | 10,789 |
| Other deaths in service (nontheater) | 32,000 |
| Nonmortal woundings | 153,303 |
| Living veterans | 8,295,0001 |
| Gulf War (1990–1991) | |
| Total servicemembers | 2,183,000 |
| Serving in-theater | 665,476 |
| Battle deaths | 147 |
| Other deaths in service (theater) | 382 |
| Other deaths in service (nontheater) | 1,565 |
| Nonmortal woundings | 467 |
| Living veterans | 1,852,0001 |
| America's Wars Total | |
| Military service during war | 42,348,460 |
| Battle deaths | 651,008 |
| Other deaths in service (theater) | 13,998 |
| Other deaths in service (nontheater) | 525,256 |
| Nonmortal woundings | 1,431,290 |
| Living war veterans | 17,578,5003 |
| Living veterans | 25,038,459 |
I agree with you...I have read up enough on the history of that time to understand that the basic lack of cooperation and vision of the Parliament at the time was the main cause of grievances with the colonists....which is really strange, because so many of the nobility were beginning to set up their own prosperity in the New World. Carter is correct to a degree...but I noticed he did not qualify what he meant by it. To call it 'unnecessary' is an unfortunate choice of words, as I am sure that the one's who fought felt that it was necessary in terms of having no other choice. Why the Brits missed their chance to have the British kingdom writ large is beyond me. Carter should have stuck with 'avoidable.'
Carter with his hatred of a strong America would have preferred that our revoluntary war never happened, and we would just be another part of the British Empire.
Carter has been one of the most dangerous anti Americans of the last century and continues to be.
I'm not so sure about that. Some of "British ham-handedness" was a reation, an attempt to prevent the unthinkable. Many of our FF were students of the Enlightenment. Our FF were not all of one mind & it took British ham-handedness to get enough people on board, but I believe the revolution was something that was waiting to happen.
I agree. I was young & stoopid. I bought it. Before Nixon it was Agnew. The Nixon pardon was the final straw. Those Republicans, they're all alike, creates a vote against the Republican, instead of a vote for the Democrat.
Chrissy Matthews and Jimmah Cahtah:
...the Revolutionary War, more than any other war up until recently, has been the most bloody war we‘ve fought.
So the Revolutionary was our bloodiest war ever excepting the war in Iraq?
What a dumbass.
I don't know if he's ever played with chemicals. I'm beginning to wonder if he's a closet Holocaust denier too.
Do you think the French crown could have prevented their revolution if they had had a bit more vision?
And the idea that the Revolutionary War "need not have been fought" because Britain would eventually have given America its independence (in the 20th century) is so overwhelmingly dumb that words fail in trying to describe it.
Carter is a bad joke, and Matthews was a blindingly incompetent in not calling him on his demonstrated ignorance.
Don't get me started.
Congressman Billybob
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