[martin_fierro]

Carter's syrupy prose must have amused Khomeini, who preferred a minimalist style with such phrases as "we shall cut off America's hands."

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Ahmad Khomeini's memoirs echo the surprise that his father, the ayatollah, showed, as the Carter administration behaved "like a headless chicken."

NO NUCLEAR IRAN!

[backhoe]

Some background:

The Disasterous "Desert One" Rescue Operation of 1980
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/547308/posts

[NetValue]

For those of us old enough to remember the takeover of the US Embassy in Iran 25 years ago, it is easy to trace how Carter's impotence before the arab world then has evolved to the current situation we face where UBL threatens to bankrupt the US through terrorist acts.

The arab world first tried to bankrupt the US by simply raising the price of oil. That failed thanks to Kissinger and Reagan.

Their new way to bankrupt us is to strike directly at the US economy as they did at the World Trade Center in 2001.

It amazes me that the democrat's message with Kerry is the same as the impotent Carter and Clinton responses....this time with greater consequences for the US.

If we do not repudiate democrat impotence by re-electing President Bush, we are indeed finished.

[ApesForEvolution]

Just think, those freaking Jimmy peanut boy cabinet folks and his insane idealogy would go to the White House were the Communist John Kerry to win...thank God Bush wins.

[piasa]

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