Posted on 11/16/2009 12:54:51 PM PST by Baladas
CHIANG MAI, Thailand (Nov. 16) -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Monday that he had no regrets about his handling of the Iran hostage crisis more than 30 years ago, saying he didn't attack the country as his advisers proposed because thousands of people would have died.
Islamic militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979, and seized its occupants. Fifty-two Americans were held hostage for 444 days.
Carter acknowledged that his failure to bring the hostages home — including a botched rescue mission in which eight U.S. servicemen died — led to his election defeat to President Ronald Reagan in 1980. The hostages were released on Jan. 20, 1981, just minutes after Reagan was sworn in as the new president.
"I don't have any doubt that was the main factor in my defeat," Carter told reporters in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai, where he was helping build houses for Habitat for Humanity. "Obviously, if I had rescued the hostages or they had not been taken, I would have been re-elected."
Carter said one proposed option was a military strike on Iran, but he chose to stick with negotiations to prevent bloodshed and bring the hostages home safely.
"My main advisers insisted that I should attack Iran," he said. "I could have destroyed Iran with my weaponry. But I felt in the process it was likely the hostages' lives would be lost, and I didn't want to kill 20,000 Iranians. So I didn't attack."
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LOL! Yeah right, a$$wipe. Perhaps you may recall the misery index, "No Gas My Ass" and malaise. Hmmmmm???
Allowing 8 of our finest to die and 52 other Americans to be held hostage for WELL over a year, humiliating them and our country while you assisted in the removal of the Shah and the coup by the islamofascist that continue to torture and murder dissidents had nothing to do with nuthin'. What a moron. Go away and STHU!
"There were no American hostages in Iran. Never! My feelings - as usual - we as an enlightened non violent people led by Carter the most merciful, praise be his name, had slaughtered them all, intellectually and through reason. I blame Fox News - they are marketing for the Americans!"
Yeah, sure, Jimmuh. The 19% inflation wasn’t all that painful. I’m sure no one noticed it."
My thoughts exactly!!
....misery index, malaise, talking to the country wearing a sweater and doing his best Mr. Rogers impression....telling everyone to turn down the thermostat....nobody noticed any of that either you delusional old peanut freak...
Whoever said hindsight is 20/20 never met Jimmy Carter.
"I don't have any doubt that was the main factor in my defeat," Carter told reporters in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai, where he was helping build houses for Habitat for Humanity. "Obviously, if I had rescued the hostages or they had not been taken, I would have been re-elected."
Jimmy can say what he wants to the MSM because they're in the tank for RATs anyway. Those of us who witnessed it are still pretty angry.
Jimmy ran for office instructing us that we were being too "provocative" in relation to the USSR, that if we stopped pointing weapons at them they would stop trying to take over governments.
Jimmy Carter enabled the takeover in Tehran of the Ayatollahs.
They thanked him by taking over the embassy and leaving 52 hostages in captivity for 444 days.
He micromanaged the one military action attempted, which resulted int he loss of more lives.
He was weak, and the Ayatollahs knew it.
The hostages were released, I believe, just before RR was sworn in, because RR made it clear he wouldn't be playing pattycake with them.
Jimmy Carter is a smug, sanctimonious POS. He is certainly the worst President of my lifetime and definitely in the running for the worst ever.
How many Iranians did RR have to kill to get them released?
Excellent point! Though Carter was defending his decision not to attack Iran for its provocation.
Complete incompetence is back in style.
>You wish, halfwit. The leftist asswipe still doesn't get it.
Alan of AntiMullah and I were on site till after the revolution and just before the hostage taking and an employee of ours gave us a first hand report. He was the one walking next to the Volkswagen minibus with the cleric on top.
(Note: good karma got us out alive)
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2004/03/jimmy-carters-illegal-demands-on-shah.html
You might also want to read “Who was Khomeini”
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2004/03/who-is-ayatollah-khomeini.html
At the time, we had the opinion that if we only had one bullet and could shoot Carter or Khomeini, we would have shot Carter for making this global idiotic mess and decades later have not changed our viewpoint.
Khomeini was the bubonic plague but Carter was the one who infected the world with it.
Oba-Hussein-Khomeini (currently doing to the USA what the Ayatollah did to Iran) is making sure the plague (in a more virulent form) destroys the world not just a country.
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/11/dear-grim-reaper.html
SIDEBAR to share:
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/11/christmas-with-capital-c-top-song-this.html
Fars, always love your posts. Thanks.
Alzheimer's or Insanity, Carter is beyond help.
Taking over our embassy was an act of war.
LOL, obvious to only you MMuhammad.
I wonder if he defends GIVING AWAY the Panama Canal too. I believe China now operates it (under contract) which comes in handy for them should they decide to sabotage it and render us militarily powerless in a time of war.
20/20 hindsight is an amazing thing. I wonder what people will think, looking back 20 years from now..if only the patriots would have fire back when Obama came for all of their property.
I guess we will soon be tested in that vein.
Personally I believe it was Hezbollah that was responsible for the Beirut bombing, and that organization’s beginnings can be traced back to Carter’s mishandling of the hostage crisis in Iran.
Carter is STILL the conduit to and FROM obama for hamas and hezbullah. Anyone who doubts that is not paying attention.
The closest he ever got to the truth was that he was a peanut farmer. Maybe.
Playboy magazine got him elected by glamorizing him and making him a household name. They did the same for john effing kerry.
BOTH of them are traitors.
Carter is just another POS who lied about his credentials to become president. He claimed to be a nuclear physicist. The closest he ever got to anything nuclear before he became president was serving on a nuclear powered Navy ship where his duties had nothing to do with the technology.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Articles/JimmyCarter.htm
The former President is a complex and polarizing person. He has extraordinary personal arrogance, yet is not overtly pretentious. He is a calculating intellectual who also teaches Sunday school. But in fact, while Carter was teaching those Bible classes in Plains, Georgia in the mid-60’s he was also shamelessly playing up to Southern racists in his campaign for governor by using ads that associated his opponent with (gasp) the Black Man. In office, he embraced segregationists such as George Wallace.
When progressivism is a matter of convenience, other parts of the resume become suspect as well. Carter’s claim to be a nuclear physicist is apparently based on his having taken a lone one-semester, non-credit introductory college course.
At least we got another failure to compare to Barry.
“He is the most clueless person who ever served as POTUS. The whole world knows how stupid he sounds.”
Compared to the present commander in chief, he looks like a genius.
Actually, I was at the inauguration......The motorcade was on the way to the swearing in when it was announced the hostages had been released.
Remember, Reagan warned those thugs that if the hostages were not released,
then 10 seconds after he took office,Iran would never know what hit them.
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