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Former President Carter says Iraq war is a tragedy
Houston Chronicle ^
| April 9, 2004, 12:21AM
| James Pinkerton
Posted on 04/09/2004 9:29:16 AM PDT by O.C. - Old Cracker
BROWNSVILLE -- Former President Carter on Thursday called the Bush administration's decision to wage war against Iraq "ill-advised and unnecessary," adding the resulting campaign "has turned out to be a tragedy."
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The former Democratic president also said Bush's environmental policies are perhaps the worst in the nation's history.
Carter made the comments at the Rio R.V. Park after wrapping up a four-day birding trip with his wife, Rosalynn, in the lower Rio Grande Valley.
"President Bush's war was ill-advised and unnecessary and based on erroneous statements, and has turned out to be a tragedy," Carter said. "And my prayer has been that brave young American men and women, and others who are there, that their lives will be spared and there will be some peaceful resolution of the war."
Carter, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, also blamed what he called Bush's pro-Israel policies for engendering animosity against America.
"The prime source of animosity towards the United States is the lack of progress in dealing with the Palestinian issue," Carter said, adding that past U.S. administrations since Harry Truman's have maintained a "balanced position" in dealing with the rights of the Arab population within the Jewish nation.
"The present administration has not done so at all. We have been exclusively committed to the policies of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Israel, and have made no effort to try to have a balanced negotiating position between Israel and the Palestinians," Carter said.
Carter, who brokered the historic 1978 Camp David accords that led to peace between Israel and Egypt, noted that President George H.W. Bush threatened to halt foreign aid when Israel began building settlements in Palestinian territory.
"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.
Carter, who placed 103 million acres of Alaskan land under federal protection during his term, also took the current White House to task on the environment.
"This national administration is the worst for conservation in my lifetime, maybe in history," said Carter, whose family has farmed in Georgia since 1833. "In all the basic elements of preserving the purity of parks and wildlife lands, controlling the industries that are inclined to pollute ... the decimation of forest lands."
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker
GBRR say "Jimmy Carter is a tragedy".
Jimmuh did one good thing though - he turned me from liberal to conservative!
To: O.C. - Old Cracker
Carter, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, also blamed what he called Bush's pro-Israel policies for engendering animosity against America. There's the root of it all!
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posted on
04/09/2004 9:30:19 AM PDT
by
O.C. - Old Cracker
(When the cracker gets old, you wind up with Old Cracker. - O.C.)
To: O.C. - Old Cracker
Jimmy Carter needs to shut up.
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posted on
04/09/2004 9:31:33 AM PDT
by
pax_et_bonum
(Always finish what you st)
To: O.C. - Old Cracker
Gosh, well I sure hope he'll go to Fallujah RIGHT NOW to stop the fighting. Please Jimmah, PLEASE, volunteer!
;-\
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posted on
04/09/2004 9:32:27 AM PDT
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: O.C. - Old Cracker
Like your Administration Jimmuh.
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posted on
04/09/2004 9:32:34 AM PDT
by
demlosers
(Coulter: Liberals simply can't grasp the problem Lexis-Nexis poses to their incessant lying.)
To: All
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posted on
04/09/2004 9:32:34 AM PDT
by
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker
The history of the Bush presidency has not been written yet!
As far as Jimmy Carter.....
His legacy is clear as a bell.
Talk about your miserable failures.......Carter was a tragedy for America.
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posted on
04/09/2004 9:33:57 AM PDT
by
CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
(I don't believe anything a Democrat says. Bill Clinton set the standard!)
To: O.C. - Old Cracker
Former President Carter says Iraq war is a tragedy
Yeah, well, so was his presidency, from his inauguration straight through to the end of it. What a fiasco.
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posted on
04/09/2004 9:34:22 AM PDT
by
Clara Lou
To: O.C. - Old Cracker
What's Jimmy listening to, hip hop or his Muslim extremist speech writers?
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posted on
04/09/2004 9:34:53 AM PDT
by
Dolphy
(I joined the redlipstick boycott of MSNBC)
To: pax_et_bonum
I concur totally, and you literally took the same words right out of my own mouth.
Are you listening, Jimmy? SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP ! Go back to your peanut farm where you belong.
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posted on
04/09/2004 9:35:19 AM PDT
by
Max7
To: O.C. - Old Cracker
Any time a former president pipes up on matters of policy, his stature is reduced. In a time of war, it's highly offensive. Jimmy needs to shut his piehole and go back to building homes for indigents. It's the only productive thing he's ever done in his life.
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posted on
04/09/2004 9:37:26 AM PDT
by
Mr. Bird
(Ain't the beer cold!)
To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
Talk about your miserable failures.......Carter was is a tragedy for America.:-)
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posted on
04/09/2004 9:38:22 AM PDT
by
auboy
(The 9-11 Commission ain't worth a bucket of warm spit. Make that half a bucket.)
To: O.C. - Old Cracker
There's no fool like an old fool, and he was a fool
when he was younger too.
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posted on
04/09/2004 9:38:40 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: O.C. - Old Cracker
His bungling of the Iranian hostage crises and his feeble attempt to rescue Americans, is the root cause for my screen name.
RD
To: O.C. - Old Cracker
...Carter made the comments at the Rio R.V. Park... Hmmmmm.
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posted on
04/09/2004 9:39:17 AM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
To: O.C. - Old Cracker
Jimmuh has a lot of gall to come over to Texas to start spouting off!
Best get back to Gawgia boy!
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posted on
04/09/2004 9:39:40 AM PDT
by
mylife
To: O.C. - Old Cracker
...So was crashing helicopters in the desert, Mr. Carter.
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posted on
04/09/2004 9:39:41 AM PDT
by
madison10
(Proud member of RAM since 1978.)
To: Max7
Drop dead, you fraud.
It was your weak Presidency and your inability to be decisive and quick in response to the Islamofascists in the first place, which started the belief in the Arab world that we were a paper tiger that could be pushed around. Now we have to clean up the cesspool that you helped fill.
To: O.C. - Old Cracker
Jimmuh, is there any issue you don't come down on the wrong side on?
Owl_Eagle
" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"
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posted on
04/09/2004 9:40:47 AM PDT
by
End Times Sentinel
("I AIN'T GOT TIME FO' YO' JIBBA JABBA, FOOL!!!"~ Mr. T.)
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