Posted on 03/08/2006 8:59:14 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
SEATTLE -- Former President Jimmy Carter criticized the war in Iraq on Wednesday, urging a troop drawdown as the United States enters its fourth year of conflict in Iraq.
"It was a completely unnecessary war. It was an unjust war," said Carter, the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner. "It was initiated on the basis of false pretenses. All of those are true, but we can't just pre-emptively withdraw."
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Geez, not more drivel from Mr. Potato-head.
Dude, you had your chance 30 years ago.....be gone.
This is bold, decisive leadership, just like calling the Iranians after the failed rescue attempt to tell them we had failed. The Iranian revolutionaries had no clue what had happened until he had told them.
I don't know why more people don't realize that. The "unjust war" crowd doesn't understand that they're simply allowing a bigger problem to grow. The "nuke Mecca" crowd doesn't understand that all-out war would end up weakening or ruining the United States.
We have to try to turn the tide of islam, because in the long run it's a worse threat than communism. Our only civilized course is to try to modernize the Middle East.
"Former President Jimmy Carter criticized the war in Iraq on Wednesday, urging a troop drawdown"
Let me tell what has happened here. Some bored reporter, in agony watching Jimmah pounded nails into a piece of trim, decides to spice things up.
Reporter: Nice job hammerin' there Mister President, nice job.
Jimmah: (talking through some trim nails hanging out of his mouth) Thank ya, son.
Reporter: (Yawning) So Mister President, what was that you said about a month ago about our troops in Iraq?
Jimmah: (pulls the trim nails out, ponders the deep question) Well, I was saying, we need to get the troops out. It wasn't justified, it was unnecesary.
Reporter: Won't that sound defeatist, and demoralize our troops who are there?
Jimmah: (staring sternly at the reporter with those tired, post 1980 election eyes) Son, I am a nobel prize peace winner. I know what am talkin' about.
Reporter: No doubt sir, no doubt.
Actually, this can be a good thing. It links old peanut head to the Democrats, who are trying to portray themselves as the ones we should trust with national security. I'm sure the Dems in Washington don't want Jimmuh to be the face of the "new" Democrat party. We can remind folks (or tell the young-uns) about the gas lines, the American Embassy takeover, the failed rescue attempt, the "misery index," etc.
Yes, it is misleading. It should say, "WORST U.S. PRESIDENT EVER GIVES AID AND COMFORT TO THE ENEMY"
Saddam Hussein provided a training ground for terrorists, especially after the Taliban was defeated in Afghanistan. His regime was involved in several terrorist attacks against U.S. interests. He tried to assassinate former Pres. George HW Bush. Saddam Hussein is a mass murderer of hundreds of thousands, who also subjected Iraqis to hideous tortures. He developed chemical and biological weapons, sought a nuclear bomb, and provided weapons to the terrorists. Carter and the rest of the lunatic Democrat Party thinks the world would be better off with Saddam Hussein as dictator in Iraq.
President Bush and our troops have liberated 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq. They now enjoy free elections, new schools, new hospitals.
Carter does a good job of representing the Democrat Party.
The clueless one opens up his goofy pie hole again, and we see what an imbecile he really is.
This joke does not even know how to be a good EX president!
Withdrawal is what Carter's parents should have done.
Jeez Jimmy, just when I thought you vould not debase yourself and help our enemies any more than you already have....you prove me wrong...shut up already!
I'd be sick of Jimmy Carter, if he really mattered.
History's Greatest Monster strikes again...
Well said.
Kinda hard to believe it is possible that he can be an even worse former president than he was actual president.
Hey...why not? The republicans in congress and Hillary think all "Arabs" look alike anyway. No need to help out the Iraqi's anymore.
Get our boys the heck out of there if we are not there to win hearts and minds.
I am, for at least the next 10 years.
We kept 100's of thousands of troops stationed in Germany, Japan, Korea largely because of continuing threat of the USSR or Communist Korea.
We set up defences to protect the Mid East from being overrun by the Soviets to protect our oil supplies. We put bases in Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Turkey and developed Israel. We kept bases in Germany to protect against an invasion through the Fulda Gap.
Iraq and Afganistan are hugely strategic locations. Even if Iraq was not run by Hussein we would eventually have had to establish military bases their in order to fight Iran and Syria and protect our interests in the Mid East.
The decision ot invade Iraq was not simply because we thought Hussein had WMD's. There was a much larger strategic region. Hussein simply justified it, the fool.
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And I urge Carter to withdraw from the US.
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