Carter calls Iraq war ‘serious mistake’ - Opinion Journal: "More Mush From the Wimp"

The State (S. Carolina) ^ | 25 November 2003 | CAROLYN CLICK

[Stultis]

From Opinion Journal of 1 December:

More Mush From the Wimp
"Former President Jimmy Carter called the American invasion of Iraq one of the country's worst foreign policy blunders, and predicted it may take a dozen years to bring stability and democracy to the region," reports the State newspaper of Columbia, S.C. A dozen years? Hmm, Carter took office more than two dozen years ago; if the Middle East can be made stable and democratic in just a dozen years, it's a shame he didn't start the process back then.

The disgraced former president also says of Iraq, "I was strongly against going in unilaterally." He should call the families of the seven Spanish intelligence officers who died over the weekend in an Iraq ambush and deliver the comforting news that they didn't really lose their loved ones, since America is in Iraq "unilaterally."

[Diogenesis]

[Leisler]

"...Carter calls Iraq war ‘serious mistake’ ...."

Never was there more absolute proof that it was the right thing to do. Like, what's Jimmys win/lose running at? 0 and 754? Something like that.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Never was there more absolute proof that it was the right thing to do.

Cleared up any lingering doubts for me.

[facedown]

“I was strongly against going in unilaterally,” ...

I guess Britain and Australia don't count.

[corlorde]

Letting Carter be President was a "serious mistake."

[Rennes Templar]

Getting advice on foriegn policy from Carter is like getting advice on icebergs from the captain of the Titanic.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I wish that buck-toothed, economic expert, nuclear engineer, peanut farming, dumb crap, ex president, would shut his doofus, hick, socialist, muslim butt kissin, mouth.

What did Jimmah say?

[Gwaihir]

“I’m going to endorse whoever I think will have the best chance in November."

What?! Not the man/woman with the best ideas? Not the candidate with the firmest moral grounding? Thanks for the lesson, Jimmy.

[Egon]

“Bottom line is, we should turn over as rapidly as we can both the economic and political affairs to the Iraqis — as much as they can handle — and bring in other nations to help us.”

Uh, yeah? And that would differ from our gameplan how? Talk about a non-statement. Sure wish those on the Left would make up their mind. Oh well, I guess we must be doing something right if Carter's against it.

My question is this: How many more "Children of Chamberlain" are there out there, and how do we keep them out of office?

[John Valentine]

“I was strongly against going in unilaterally,” ...

Carter even needs UN help with Roslyn.

[John Valentine]

Carter is the worst ex-President in American history but Bill Clinto is working hard to dislodge Carter from his place of dishonor.

You knoow, I think it would be a good idea to condition ex-Presidential pensions, perks and so on on complete retirement from publiclife. No speeches, no trips to Cuba or North Korea, no interviews, no TV appearances.

We'll give each ex President dispensation for two books over ten years. Otherwise the pension goes and the Secret Service detail goes along with the pension.

[Lockbar]

LOL! Hey Jimmy, I guess cutting the military training budgets in 1977-1980 so US Helicopter pilots were ill prepared for night operations so they can crash into each other in the Iranian desert was not a giant mistake? (Man, is that a run-on sentance?) Carter is just a tired-A$$ POS.

[aardvark1]

If Jimmy was President now, we'd still be hand-wringing over what terrible things we had done to the poor Islamists that would cause them to hate us so much.

[AmericanMade1776]

Jimmah "old coot" Cawtah

[The Westerner]

I will always remember President Carter as the only President in my lifetime unable to sit due to a severe case of hemorrhoids. Somehow that picture fits the man.

[leprechaun9]

I wonder if the pee-nut farmer conferred with his daughter, the nuclear arms expert?

[cynicom]

Does the term "Iran hostages" ring a bell for this old fool???????? At long last Father Time has carted that idiot Gerald Ford off to the old fools home, time will also relieve us of Carter.

[AnAmericanMother]

I'm wondering if Jimmuh hasn't fallen victim to the steady encroachment of senility.

He's always been a self-righteous, micro-managing fool (I was old enough to realize what a hash he made of being Governor here in GA, we expected the worst from his presidency and got it) but there's so much hatred and downright irrationality in his pronouncements lately, it seems as though he may be experiencing some mental problems.

[JesseHousman]

A recent rating of presidents from Coolidge to Bush had this one liner assigned to the imbecilic, peanut-brained Karter:

Jimmy Carter (no stars). Well-meaning ineptitude: no saving grace.

I could never be so kind as to term him "well-meaning."

This socialist jerk gave the Panama Canal to a nation that wasn't even in existance when Americans died digging it. He thought it was only fair.

I thought it interesting that recently he and Rozalind thought it important that they leave the Baptist Church due to the Church's narrow-minded views on abortion.