Posted on 10/19/2004 7:04:03 PM PDT by notkerry
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you the question aboutthis is going to cause some trouble with peoplebut 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 weve 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 colonials 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.
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You nailed it.
How did he get as old as he is without being hit by a train?
His Egypt deal was that he bought them off in exchange for peace. We are still paying them millions per year and instead of sitting there being peaceful, they help perpetuate the Israeli conflict without direct military intervention.
He should have just let nature take its course. Now we have this perpetual problem that has been used as an excuse to fly planes into crowded buildings... The retard.
"What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an effect and consequence of it. The Revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected, from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen years before a drop of blood was drawn at Lexington."
John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 1815
You "beat me to the punch"!What an ABSOLUTE,AMERICA-HATING IDIOT!!It's small wonder that he was our WORST POTUS(BeelzeBubba's next)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is staggering to see such an INCOMPETENT as an expresident.
Now he is a "historian" HA!
The Carter institutute has been the biggest anti-american shadow government since kerry sent albright to europe.
The Carter center activly pursues antiamerican goal and work to couter Bush administration policies.
It is good that Carter is exposing his anti americanism on the fourth of July.
I'm gonna have to agree with you on this one, former president Carter isn't one I would agree with on many points. "We could be just like Canada" is the point of this line of thinking though - but Britain also went to war with us in 1812, and for decades later was able to invoke crushing "panics" in business by interest/discount rate adjustments. Did Canada have a Civil War?
(Recall that during the years of the English Civil War, the colonies were for the most part self-governing.)
Let me just say one word, Jimmy. Gettysburg! Shiloh! OK that's two. More Americans died in those two battles than at Normandy or Iwo Jima.
even camp david has been exposed as a fraud, turns out carter basically bribed the parties with massive US aid dollar$.
Talk about a Patriot. That rabbit knew what it was doing for sure!
Yes, it is good near Independence Day to remember the destructive attitudes of anti-American jerks like Carter and Chrissy.
Is Chrissy still on, BTW? If so, who in the heck watches him?
Jimmy Carter is an idiot.
If I were a democrat, I'd pray that somehow the DNC would find a way to shut the guy up.
Carter was to date the worst President in my lifetime. He accomplished very little in his one term......and we had that little Iran hostage thing going on for what seemed like a century. Hyper-inflation, a continuing energy crisis.......and who can ever forget his "fireside chat" attempts when he actually went on camera before the nation asking "what can we do to make this better". Nice leadership there Jimmy.
You would think he'd know better than to make such statements now..........any statements at all actually. Go away Jimmy, please.
That's exactly how it happened.
But, if we had never revolted, Carter would never have been POTUS. Maybe he's onto something there.
Where did this idiot learn grammar? "Most bloody"???? It is "bloodiest," you nincompoop. And to think he had his finger on the button for 4 years....sheese!
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