Posted on 11/28/2006 8:50:57 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
Former President Jimmy Carter believes the Iraq war ranks as one of the "greatest blunders" in U.S. presidential history.
Speaking on CNN, Carter said: "I think that the original invasion of Iraq, and all of its consequences, yes, were a blunder. It's going to prove, I believe to be one of the greatest blunders that American presidents have ever made."
When asked if it was a bigger foreign-policy mistake than the Vietnam War, he said: "I think it is going to be a close call ... but perhaps much more vividly known by the rest of the world than Vietnam was."
Carter also said the conflict between rival factions in Iraq isn't a "civil war."
"I think a civil war is a more serious circumstance than exists in Iraq," he said.
Carter suggested that President Bush find a way to pull out of Iraq that would be considered a "victory" by agreeing to an international conference on the war.
The democrats are going to be doing everything they can to make iraq OFFICIALY a disaster before they take control of the houses, they don't want it to look like ANYTHING they screw up is their fault. Its remarkable how the body count has begun to climb as they started there cut and run song and dance....
Ditto!
Yeah, Carter knows how to do that:
Jimmy Carter: the president whose policies required the "misery Index" to be invented.
Ah no that would be another media manufactured myth about Iraq. People really need to learn the diffeence between Counter Insurgency and Conventional War. What would be a blunder would be to use Conventional War doctrine to fight an Asymetrical War. The Russians followed your doctrine in Afganistan. How did that work out for them?
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You forgot "Lost Iran"
Who was President then? Some corn-pone peanut farmer who fancied himself a "nucular enginyeer".
That goes right along with NBC's decision to now refer to Iraq as a civil war. I'm sure the rest of the ENEMEDIA will follow along shortly.
Sorry. This is the best I could scrounge up:
I'm thinking he likely also got F'n Kerry his "Honorable" discharge at the same time.
Carter never got over losing to Reagan, one of our greatest presidents ever. He's one of the most bitter, sorest sports in American history. Too bad the country has to continue paying for his well deserved loss.
Great post, and so true! : )
Algore is the same story. Coincidence?
When it comes to the greatest blunders, Jimmy Carter holds the top ten in perpetuity -- that nobody will ever come close to breaking.
Isn't it hilarious how the mainstream media parades Jimmy Carter as their icon of how a great leader ought to be?
They must think we have such short-term memories as to forget all the history most of us lived through.
But beyond that, hundreds of millions of people were killed in the wars and hostilities of the 20th century, while relatively few have been lost in this way since the beginning of the 21st century -- yet the mainstream media, led by their idiot savant, would have us believe that there's never been such a calamitous loss of lives in the history of the world as has occurred in attempting to bring democracy to Iraq.
No Jimmy . Your dad not shooting that load in the sink was the biggest blunder
You guys have the best pictures LOL
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