Former President Carter says Iraq war is a tragedy

Houston Chronicle ^ | April 9, 2004, 12:21AM | James Pinkerton

[Adam36]

Dont forget it was Carter who signed the stupid North Korean nuclear deal in 1994. The North Koreans never intended to honor the agreement and broke the agreement and Carter cant admit, he he was duped by the North Koreans. Carter has also been silent on a Kurdish state in Iraqi Kurdistan. He wants a terrorist PLO state but no Kurdish state, even though all the Kurds support America. Carter has said nothing about the killings of Kurds in Syria. http://www.kurdishmedia.com/reports.asp?id=1890

[TigersEye]

Perhaps it was Jimmy Cartah pulling the US support from the Shah and allowing radical Islam to take control of a major middle eastern country that is the root of the problem. I think that was the crucial event that caused the problems the world is having now.

Can there be any doubt? Iran has been playing host to nearly every terrorist group in the Middle East for their training camps. Carter practically invented the appeasement doctrine for this era of American history. When we had an oil shortage he asked every American to wear a sweater and turn down the heat as an answer. The man is a failed peanut farmer. His most successful crop is between his ears. Yield - 1 shriveled half-boiled peanut.

[SierraWasp]

Takes one to know one!!! What an utter pissant!!!

[Defender2]

demoCommiecRATS do not want to kick our enemies butts. demoCommiecrats want to perform fellatio on our enemies and stab U.S. in the back. They've(demoCommiecRATS) previuosly concluded that fellatio is not sex.

[Mr. Mojo]

"In the meantime, of course, the Israelis have established hundreds of settlements all over Palestinian land with no critical comment ever coming from the present Bush administration," Carter said.

Perhaps because Judea and Samaria is NOT "Palestinian" land, peanut brain. Now go do what ex-Presidents are supposed to do (for once) -- write your memoirs, play some golf, go fishing, and shut your mouth.

[elbucko]

I wonder how Gerry Ford, the second worse president modern history, feels knowing this idiot defeated him.

Respectfully, Jimmy Carter did not defeat Gerry Ford. Vietnam did. No country will reelect a president that looses a war during his administration, even if it was Congress that actually caused the loss. The pictures of So. Vietnam refuges crowding at the top of the American Embassy compound. The Huey helicopters ditching in the So. China Sea as the pilots sought escape from the communists. These images on the "Six O'clock News" were what defeated Ford. Not Jimmy Carter.

BTW, LBJ was aware of what images like that could do to his reelection in 1968. That's why he sent marines into So Vietnam in 1965. To prop up the govt. of So. Vietnam until the '68 election was past. LBJ knew he would loose his 2nd election if Vietnam fell. It happened to Ford instead.

[elbucko]

God I wish somebody would cap this old bastard.

Bwaaaaaaaahaaahaaaahaaaaa! That's the funniest thing I've heard all day. Thanks for the laugh. BTW, I agree.

[logician2u]

Respectfully, Jimmy Carter did not defeat Gerry Ford. Vietnam did.

Interesting perspective.

All this time I thought it was the Nixon pardon that did in Ford.

[RasterMaster]

Mr. Peanut was an embarrassment as a president. Isn't that something good to grow up with?

[RasterMaster]

Actually now that I think about it, thank GOD for Jimmy Carter! Thank you Jimmy for the long lines at the gas pump, hostage crisis, and bloated budgets while undermining the military at the same time. Mr. Peanut opened my eyes at a young age to see what low-lifes really look like. We need bozos like him, lest we forget what damage can be done by electing the WRONG man as president. Didn't that cause a great awakening, getting Reagan two terms?