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Jimmy Carter: Like Iraq The Revolutionary War Was Unnecessary!
Harball 10/18/04

Posted on 10/19/2004 7:04:03 PM PDT by notkerry

MATTHEWS: Let me ask you the question about—this is going to cause some trouble with people—but as an historian now and studying the Revolutionary War as it was fought out in the South in those last years of the War, insurgency against a powerful British force, do you see any parallels between the fighting that we did on our side and the fighting that is going on in Iraq today?

CARTER: Well, one parallel is that the Revolutionary War, more than any other war up until recently, has been the most bloody war we‘ve fought. I think another parallel is that in some ways the Revolutionary War could have been avoided. It was an unnecessary war.

Had the British Parliament been a little more sensitive to the colonial‘s really legitimate complaints and requests the war could have been avoided completely, and of course now we would have been a free country now as is Canada and India and Australia, having gotten our independence in a nonviolent way.

I think in many ways the British were very misled in going to war against America and in trying to enforce their will on people who were quite different from them at the time.

For Transcript See http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6281085/


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004electionbias; agitprop; antiamerican; bushhater; cartermuraq; civilwar2; civlwarii; flounderingfathers; goebbelswouldbeproud; iraq; iraqwar; jimmycarter; kickmeinmydumass; mediabias; peanutbutterbrain; presidentdumbass; propaganda; revisionisthistory; revolutionarywar; unamerican
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To: donmeaker
The battle of New Orleans showed that British arrogance could not stand against free men.

It also showed the foolishness of marching some of the best-trained soldiers in the world armed with short-range muskets through an open field against Kentucky long rifles perched behind embankments.

221 posted on 07/02/2006 9:05:06 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (crime would drop like a sprung trapdoor if we brought back good old-fashioned hangings)
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To: marktwain

And Carter was "portrayed" as a conservative southern governor. It was all a sham.


222 posted on 07/02/2006 9:05:23 PM PDT by ontos-on
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To: genxer
I'm Sorry, I'm sorry, I voted for him twice! Please someone forgive me before it's too late. Might be already- sorry! Oh Goodness I was so stupid. Confession over!
223 posted on 07/02/2006 9:13:08 PM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (God bless our troops!! Our President and those who fight against the awful commie, liberal left!!)
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To: notkerry

Besides the fact that his entire premise is moronic - He's wrong. The Civil War was far bloodier than the Revolution.


224 posted on 07/02/2006 9:19:43 PM PDT by LouD
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To: notkerry
What an assface. Complete utter submoron.
225 posted on 07/02/2006 9:22:02 PM PDT by satchmodog9 (Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
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To: tirednvirginia

Yep, he must have slept or been digging peanuts through those lectures; what a total asshat.


226 posted on 07/02/2006 9:27:43 PM PDT by Atchafalaya (When you're there, that's the best!!)
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To: Vigilanteman

It was a lesson they should have learned at Bunker Hill. Moral: never underestimate your enemy.


227 posted on 07/02/2006 9:30:10 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: notkerry

You know, you hear the drivel that this idiot cotues to put forth and wonder if his family caught cancer on purpose...

Does anybody really think his Secret Service contingent will stop a bullet for him?


228 posted on 07/02/2006 9:34:49 PM PDT by Former Dodger ( "Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." --Einstein)
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To: Seaplaner

Remember when he went on national tv and acknowledged that the Soviets had lied to him and he was suprised and offended. I wasn't too politically engaged at the time but that tv spot scared me; Jimmah be gone!!!! I paid attention after that; how we survived that dimwit is beyond me (grace of God)!


229 posted on 07/02/2006 9:35:27 PM PDT by Atchafalaya (When you're there, that's the best!!)
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To: notkerry
I don't believe nuttin ole Goobers has to say.

He was a useless president and a bad leader.

Goobers had no more reason and qualification to be president than any of the others now on the loony left.

Thank God Goobers was term limited by the Republicans.
230 posted on 07/02/2006 9:40:17 PM PDT by OKIEDOC (Speak Softly and Carry A Big Stick)
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To: Atchafalaya

231 posted on 07/02/2006 9:42:54 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: beezdotcom

BUMP for hugh and series "butt people" and "stright teeth"...


232 posted on 07/02/2006 9:52:01 PM PDT by beezdotcom
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To: Vicomte13

Do you have proven statistics to back that up?


233 posted on 07/02/2006 9:55:38 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican (everyone that doesn't like what America and President Bush has done for Iraq can all go to HELL)
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To: Vicomte13

Do you have proven statistics to back that up?


234 posted on 07/02/2006 10:06:03 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican (everyone that doesn't like what America and President Bush has done for Iraq can all go to HELL)
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To: notkerry

Has anything that Carter has ever said made any sense? This guy makes Gore and Kerry appear to be Savants.


235 posted on 07/02/2006 10:57:07 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Liberalism's main product is Death.)
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To: notkerry
. . . . and of course now we would have been a free country now as is Canada and India and Australia, having gotten our independence in a nonviolent way.

Not only would we have had to wait 200 years to acquire "semi-independent" (Commonwealth) status, but we would have remained 13 agrarian colonies. No Midwest, no Rockies, no West Coast, no Alaska, no Hawaii, nothing. (Not to mention military, world-class universities, culture, industry, etc.)

What was Carter smoking? The Revolutionary War was a wonderfully dramatic tale in history. Isn't he grateful to see how it led to bigger & better things?

236 posted on 07/02/2006 11:38:10 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: workerbee

>>Sounds to me as though he's equating the U.S. colonies to modern-day terrorists.<<

That is EXACTLY what the stupid sumbitch is doing. That and setting himself up for another Nobel. I hope he lives to be 100, and never shuts up.


237 posted on 07/03/2006 12:27:26 AM PDT by thelastvirgil (Incumbent politicians: PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE.)
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To: still_learning

I consider us still learning, still_learning. :)

Clowns like Carter never learn.


238 posted on 07/03/2006 2:51:00 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: notkerry

Not Scrappleface?


239 posted on 07/03/2006 2:55:49 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: Dad2Angels

"how in the hell does this idiot [Jimmah] put his pants on without help?"

Uh, since none of us are there at the time, don't assume that he does. Remember how little the public knew about FDR's real condition?

Anyway, Jimmah is appalling without end. One of several true faces (ugh!) of the Democritical Party.

Oh...BTW, there were a group of colonial Americans who would have agreed with Jimmah - Tories.


240 posted on 07/03/2006 3:27:17 AM PDT by elcid1970
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