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/
It also showed the foolishness of marching some of the best-trained soldiers in the world armed with short-range muskets through an open field against Kentucky long rifles perched behind embankments.
And Carter was "portrayed" as a conservative southern governor. It was all a sham.
Besides the fact that his entire premise is moronic - He's wrong. The Civil War was far bloodier than the Revolution.
Yep, he must have slept or been digging peanuts through those lectures; what a total asshat.
It was a lesson they should have learned at Bunker Hill. Moral: never underestimate your enemy.
You know, you hear the drivel that this idiot cotues to put forth and wonder if his family caught cancer on purpose...
Does anybody really think his Secret Service contingent will stop a bullet for him?
Remember when he went on national tv and acknowledged that the Soviets had lied to him and he was suprised and offended. I wasn't too politically engaged at the time but that tv spot scared me; Jimmah be gone!!!! I paid attention after that; how we survived that dimwit is beyond me (grace of God)!
BUMP for hugh and series "butt people" and "stright teeth"...
Do you have proven statistics to back that up?
Do you have proven statistics to back that up?
Has anything that Carter has ever said made any sense? This guy makes Gore and Kerry appear to be Savants.
Not only would we have had to wait 200 years to acquire "semi-independent" (Commonwealth) status, but we would have remained 13 agrarian colonies. No Midwest, no Rockies, no West Coast, no Alaska, no Hawaii, nothing. (Not to mention military, world-class universities, culture, industry, etc.)
What was Carter smoking? The Revolutionary War was a wonderfully dramatic tale in history. Isn't he grateful to see how it led to bigger & better things?
>>Sounds to me as though he's equating the U.S. colonies to modern-day terrorists.<<
That is EXACTLY what the stupid sumbitch is doing. That and setting himself up for another Nobel. I hope he lives to be 100, and never shuts up.
I consider us still learning, still_learning. :)
Clowns like Carter never learn.
Not Scrappleface?
"how in the hell does this idiot [Jimmah] put his pants on without help?"
Uh, since none of us are there at the time, don't assume that he does. Remember how little the public knew about FDR's real condition?
Anyway, Jimmah is appalling without end. One of several true faces (ugh!) of the Democritical Party.
Oh...BTW, there were a group of colonial Americans who would have agreed with Jimmah - Tories.
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