Jimmy Carter: Like Iraq The Revolutionary War Was Unnecessary!

Harball 10/18/04

[torchthemummy]

Maybe without a Revolutionary war, Britain would never have loosened the reigns for Canada, India, etc. The war set the scenario for the non-violent changes that followed. The relavent parallel is that the war in Iraq setup the non-violent changes in Libya up to today.

You nailed it.

[dajeeps]

How did he get as old as he is without being hit by a train?

His Egypt deal was that he bought them off in exchange for peace. We are still paying them millions per year and instead of sitting there being peaceful, they help perpetuate the Israeli conflict without direct military intervention.

He should have just let nature take its course. Now we have this perpetual problem that has been used as an excuse to fly planes into crowded buildings... The retard.

[torchthemummy]

"What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an effect and consequence of it. The Revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected, from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen years before a drop of blood was drawn at Lexington."

John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 1815

[bandleader]

You "beat me to the punch"!What an ABSOLUTE,AMERICA-HATING IDIOT!!It's small wonder that he was our WORST POTUS(BeelzeBubba's next)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[longtermmemmory]

It is staggering to see such an INCOMPETENT as an expresident.

Now he is a "historian" HA!

The Carter institutute has been the biggest anti-american shadow government since kerry sent albright to europe.

The Carter center activly pursues antiamerican goal and work to couter Bush administration policies.


It is good that Carter is exposing his anti americanism on the fourth of July.

[Freedom4US]

I'm gonna have to agree with you on this one, former president Carter isn't one I would agree with on many points. "We could be just like Canada" is the point of this line of thinking though - but Britain also went to war with us in 1812, and for decades later was able to invoke crushing "panics" in business by interest/discount rate adjustments. Did Canada have a Civil War?

[TSchmereL]

After the Elitist Revolution, Jimmy Carter will be appointed King.

[r9etb]

One of the Founding Fathers (John Adams?) said that the American Revolution was fought and won long before the first shot was fired. The bloodshed was merely a formality.

(Recall that during the years of the English Civil War, the colonies were for the most part self-governing.)

[CholeraJoe]

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.

Let me just say one word, Jimmy. Gettysburg! Shiloh! OK that's two. More Americans died in those two battles than at Normandy or Iwo Jima.

[monkapotamus]

[longtermmemmory]

even camp david has been exposed as a fraud, turns out carter basically bribed the parties with massive US aid dollar$.

[CT-Freeper]

I have to agree with the minority of posters here when I say that (holding nose) I semi-agree with Carter here.

I don't think that he is saying that the colonists should not have gone to war. He is saying that Britain could have avoided war if they had granted the colonists their Independence. The Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence, and that should have been it.

Of course, I fully understand that Britain was not going to give up this valuable piece of land to a bunch of "non-citizens."

[bray]

Throwing my vote away to John Anderson makes me look like a liberal Savant! How did Reagan only win 44 states against this Loony Toons?

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

[Artemis Webb]

Talk about a Patriot. That rabbit knew what it was doing for sure!

[Bigg Red]

Yes, it is good near Independence Day to remember the destructive attitudes of anti-American jerks like Carter and Chrissy.

Is Chrissy still on, BTW? If so, who in the heck watches him?

[Uncle Hal]

Jimmy Carter is an idiot.

[Dazedcat]

If I were a democrat, I'd pray that somehow the DNC would find a way to shut the guy up.

Carter was to date the worst President in my lifetime. He accomplished very little in his one term......and we had that little Iran hostage thing going on for what seemed like a century. Hyper-inflation, a continuing energy crisis.......and who can ever forget his "fireside chat" attempts when he actually went on camera before the nation asking "what can we do to make this better". Nice leadership there Jimmy.

You would think he'd know better than to make such statements now..........any statements at all actually. Go away Jimmy, please.

[oldbrowser]

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".

That's exactly how it happened.

[sig226]

We didn't want independence. The colonists wanted to be treated as equal to the people on the island. When the king refused, the war was the last resort, after years of pleading with England for equality.

But, if we had never revolted, Carter would never have been POTUS. Maybe he's onto something there.

[samanella]

Where did this idiot learn grammar? "Most bloody"???? It is "bloodiest," you nincompoop. And to think he had his finger on the button for 4 years....sheese!