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Jimmy Carter Urges Bush to Bring Troops Home
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| 10 March 2006
| Carl Limbacher
Posted on 03/09/2006 4:05:20 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
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."
He urged the Bush administration to bring home as many troops as possible within the next 12 months.
"The violence is increasing monthly," Carter said. "My prayer is we'll see some kind of democracy eventually evolve."
His comments came at a news conference before a building dedication at the University of Washington.
Carter was the keynote speaker at the dedication of the university's new Genome Sciences and Bioengineering Building in honor of William H. Foege.
Foege directed the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during Carter's presidency and later headed The Carter Center, which promotes peace and health programs around the world.
Carter credited Foege with saving the lives of millions of people through his efforts to eradicate smallpox, Guinea worm and river blindness, and by encouraging childhood immunization.
Foege works with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which contributed $50 million for the building.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1stclassfailurejimmy; carter; cutandrun; fruitandnut; handwringers; iraq; jimmah; jimmuh; jimmycarter; peanutfarmer; stfupeanutboy; worstpresidentin20th
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To: Aussie Dasher
As some FReeper posted a few days ago, with Jimmah, you get a twofer. Worst President ever and worst ex-president ever.
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posted on
03/09/2006 6:11:18 PM PST
by
Arrowhead1952
(Don't mess with Texas.)
To: Aussie Dasher
Doug from Upland urges Bush to bring Jimmy home and confiscate his passport.
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posted on
03/09/2006 6:12:35 PM PST
by
doug from upland
(Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
To: K-oneTexas
ole jimmuh was not only the worse prez in history, he is also the worse ex-prez in history
To: Aussie Dasher
Bush should order Condi to revoke his passport.
To: Aussie Dasher
Did Jimmah say we better get out of there and nuke them from orbit?
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posted on
03/09/2006 7:10:28 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
To: Aussie Dasher
Jimmah, you spent too many hours in that submarine. You were oxygen deprived......you are near brain dead! Sorriest, bitterest, most tactless ex president in US history!
To: Aussie Dasher
To this day I reminisce that the rabbit failed to take Jimmah out.
5.56mm
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posted on
03/09/2006 7:24:44 PM PST
by
M Kehoe
To: Aussie Dasher
Jimmy Carter Urges Bush to Bring Troops Home
This nut picker should be asked why he did not bring home the U.S. hostages in 444 days in Iran???
Hmmmm!!!
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posted on
03/09/2006 7:29:28 PM PST
by
danamco
To: Aussie Dasher
Washi Urges Carter to Shut the Hell Up
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posted on
03/09/2006 7:33:48 PM PST
by
Washi
To: All
Jimmah BELONGES in a HOME
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posted on
03/09/2006 7:34:12 PM PST
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: Right Cal Gal
When Jimmah Carter dies I will say six words: "Good riddance" and "Thank the Good Lord."
As far as I am concerned he won't be missed.
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posted on
03/09/2006 7:41:46 PM PST
by
sport
To: BaBaStooey
"Does anyone even pay any attention to Mr. Carter anymore?"Sure. Last time he was in Berkeley, there was a massive turnout. People waited for hours in the cold and the dark, just to cheer his arrival. He's also well received in Cuba, Venezuela and other communist dictatorships.
To: Right Cal Gal
"Carter wants relevance. He has none, and knows he has none. He also has to be hopelessly envious of the fact that when he dies, there will be no national outpouring the likes of which we saw when Ronaldus Magnus sadly left us.
Has to stick in his craw. The MSM can try to pile on Reagan all they want - the truth is the country loved him and loved the way he made us feel about ourselves - a complete 180 from this idiot peanut farmer and his "misery index."
That was well stated, and worth repeating.
Carter is, and always has been, a senile old fool.
He is a real embarrassment to the south, and the great state of Georgia.
We expect this only from leftist blue states.
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posted on
03/10/2006 12:52:43 AM PST
by
AlexW
(Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia)
To: Aussie Dasher
Who is Jimmy Carter???? I stay pretty informed as to people who matter, and I seriously don't think I've ever heard of this guy.
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posted on
03/10/2006 1:02:02 AM PST
by
GOPyouth
(De Oppresso Liber! The Tyrant is captured!)
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