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Jimmy Carter: Like Iraq The Revolutionary War Was Unnecessary!
Harball 10/18/04

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/


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
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To: RAY

"If Carter had his way we would be a totally socialist country and to be fair, every country would have nuclear weapons."

INDEED ! Let's not forget Jimmy's contribution = A nuclear North Korea.

Jimmy is the poster child for my Tagline.


241 posted on 07/03/2006 5:01:07 AM PDT by UltraKonservativen (( YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID!!!))
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To: notkerry

Billy Carter was a drunk, Jimmie is an idiot. Bush is to blame.


242 posted on 07/03/2006 5:06:30 AM PDT by hgro
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To: Jalapeno
Fantastic logic...Hmmm..had the Germans not walked into France, WWII would not have been necessary either...

Actually Germany invaded Poland. Following the invasion the other European powers declared war, making the German invasion of France (via Belgium as always) in some respects a pre-emptive strike.

Some historians suggest that if Hitler could just have fought a war in the East he would have preferred to, but knew it was an impossibility in geopolitical terms. Naturally once he finished in the East he would have turned West anyway.

243 posted on 07/03/2006 5:11:30 AM PDT by Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit (FReeple: Those Freepers who insist on repeating GOP talking points rather than thinking.)
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To: Paleo Conservative
Jimmy Carter was unnecessary.

Actually, Jimmah Carter serves a valuable purpose - he points out what happens if someone with his views actually were to lead this country. Fortunately, the lesson only lasted four years. I don't know if we could have survived eight.

244 posted on 07/03/2006 5:13:40 AM PDT by dirtboy (When Bush is on the same side as Ted the Swimmer on an issue, you know he's up to no good...)
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To: SE Mom; TexasTaysor

Of course Carter's logic would support a negotiated resolution to the Palestinian issue.

The alternative logic - which is also valid - would indicate that the Palestinians should keep fighting.


245 posted on 07/03/2006 5:14:18 AM PDT by Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit (FReeple: Those Freepers who insist on repeating GOP talking points rather than thinking.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I'm sorry, this line of posts is so old I don't remember what I wrote. Could you steer me to the post number you're asking about?


246 posted on 07/03/2006 5:31:02 AM PDT by Vicomte13 (Paris vaut bien une messe.)
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To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit

I've gone back to read some of the posts here...not sure why this thread was resurrected!!

But...Carter..pppfffttt..


247 posted on 07/03/2006 5:37:02 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: notkerry

Jimeny Carter is useless and a piece of dirt....put him back with his 'peanuts' and let the world go on....


248 posted on 07/03/2006 6:29:30 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 (My ? to libs: "Do they ever shut up on your planet?" "Grow your own DOPE: Plant a LIB!")
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To: notkerry

What a buffoon.


249 posted on 07/03/2006 6:32:22 AM PDT by LIConFem (It is by will alone I set my mind in motion...)
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To: notkerry

Is he aware that Canada was not legitimately its own nation until 1982?


250 posted on 07/03/2006 6:36:51 AM PDT by BaBaStooey (I heart Emma Caulfield.)
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To: notkerry
So, uhm, Jimmy Carter is saying it is ok to be an Imperialist Nation? That the Empire just needed to be more sensitive?

Do those rules still apply Jimmy?

Frankly, I'm now completely confused about his world view.
251 posted on 07/03/2006 6:37:15 AM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: marktwain
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".

Well said!

252 posted on 07/03/2006 6:37:59 AM PDT by meema (I am a Conservative Traditional Republican, NOT an elitist, sexist, cynic or right wing extremist!)
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To: notkerry

Wow....Wow...."Nowhere in your (Jimmy Carter) incoherent ramblings can there be considered anything close to a rational thought, I award you no points..." Billy Madison


253 posted on 07/03/2006 6:58:48 AM PDT by dimeadozen
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To: notkerry

"And if Adolf Hitler only been a little more sensitive to the plight of Jews and Slavs, then World War II would not have been necessary."


254 posted on 07/03/2006 7:00:13 AM PDT by dfwgator (Florida Gators - 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions)
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To: notkerry

Somebody commit this old fool. Or elect him to head up the DNC.


255 posted on 07/03/2006 7:04:34 AM PDT by Vision ("America's best days lie ahead. You ain't seen nothing yet"- Reagan)
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To: notkerry
Whatever Carter says is a lie.

Any comment by Carter, sends the old BS Meter into high gear!


256 posted on 07/03/2006 7:08:22 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic Lies posing as journalism)
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To: Dad2Angels

I'm surprised this moron can breathe on his own


257 posted on 07/03/2006 7:08:57 AM PDT by Shaun_MD (In God We Trust. In Might we remain free.)
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To: notkerry
Whatever Carter says is a lie.

Any comment by Carter, sends the old BS Meter into high gear!


258 posted on 07/03/2006 7:09:02 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic Lies posing as journalism)
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To: tirednvirginia
How about the Civil War?

If the whole colonies remained under British Crown the slavery would be abolished earlier without civil war. The whole North America would be one big Canada :)

259 posted on 07/03/2006 7:11:25 AM PDT by A. Pole (Mel Gibson: "Why should I trade one tyrant 3,000 miles away, for 3,000 tyrants one mile away?")
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To: notkerry; nutmeg

He must have been beaned by a 2 X 4 during one of his Habitat For Humanity gigs.


260 posted on 07/03/2006 7:13:01 AM PDT by stanz (Those who don't believe in evolution should go jump off the flat edge of the Earth.)
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