[F14 Pilot]

Carter sold out Iran big time

[backhoe]

From the Vault of Memory:

Recalling the Shah of Iran-
various links | 8-18-02 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/735176/posts

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One of the most telling things I ever saw was a Jeff McNelly cartoon:

The Ayatollah driving an ox-cart over a hill...
... the sign beside the road read:

"Leaving 20th Century
Please Dim Lights..."

[freema]

That last line is a stinger. Perhaps Jimmy should go make peace.

[Former Proud Canadian]

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[Jacquerie]

Carter, then Clinton. They are the sole Presidents who sold their country out. Carter did it for utopian social justice. Clinton did it for Clinton. From the look of potential 'rat presidential nominees I'd say it is still quite unsafe to put another one in office. I shudder to think where an algore or effin' kerry would have taken our country these past five years.

[rawcatslyentist]

Carter and Communism.... Kinda just fits together like a hammer and sickle. I fear the damage done by Billy Jeff and Shrillery will be found much worse!

Kill A Commie For Mommie

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[BamaAndy]

Carter--one of the worst if not the worst, Presidents ever in the history of the Untied States.

[G.Mason]

According to the Jimmy Carter Library & Museum's web site (http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/documents/jec/cabinet.phtml), the following were members of President James Earl Carter, Jr.'s administration.

Cabinet Members

* Secretary of State:

Jan. 23, 1977-Apr. 20, 1980 Cyrus R. Vance
May 8, 1980-Jan. 20, 1981 Edmund S. Muskie

* Secretary of the Treasury

Jan. 23, 1977-Jul. 19, 1979 W. Michael Blumenthal
Aug. 6, 1979-Jan. 20, 1981 G. William Miller

* Secretary of Defense

Jan. 21, 1977-Jan. 20, 1981 Harold Brown

* Attorney General

Jan. 26, 1977-Jul. 19, 1979 Griffin B. Bell
Aug. 16, 1979-Jan. 20, 1981 Benjamin R. Civiletti

* Secretary of the Interior

Jan. 23, 1977-Jan. 20, 1981 Cecil D. Andrus

* Secretary of Agriculture

Jan. 23, 1977-Jan. 20, 1981 Bob S. Bergland

* Secretary of Commerce

Jan. 23, 1977-Oct. 4, 1979 Juanita Morris Kreps
Jan. 9, 1980-Jan. 20, 1981 Philip Klutznic

* Secretary of Labor

Jan. 27, 1977-Jan. 20, 1981 Ray Marshall

* Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

Jan. 25, 1977-Jul 19, 1979 Josepha A. Califano, Jr.

* Secretary of Health and Human Services

Aug. 3, 1979-Jan. 20, 1981 Patricia Roberts Harris

* Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Jan. 23, 1977-Aug. 3, 1979 Patricia Roberts Harris

* Sep. 24, 1979-Jan. 20, 1981 Moon Landrieu

* Secretary of Transportation

Jan. 23, 1977-Jul. 20, 1979 Brock Adams
Sep. 24, 1979-Jan. 20, 1981 Neil Goldschmidt

* Secretary of Energy

Aug. 5, 1977-Jul. 20, 1979 James R. Schlesinger
Aug. 24, 1979-Jan. 20, 1981 Charles W. Duncan, Jr.

* Secretary of Education

Dec. 6, 1979-Jan. 20, 1981 Shirley Mount Hufstedler

* U. S. Representative to the United Nations

Jan. 30, 1977-Aug. 15, 1979 Andrew J. Young

* Sep. 23, 1979-Jan. 20, 1981 Donald F. McHenry

* Director, Office of Management and Budget

Jan. 23, 1977-Sep 21, 1977 Thomas Bertram Lance (Bert Lance)
Mar. 24, 1978-Jan.20, 1981 James T. McIntyre, Jr.

* Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors

Jan. 23, 1977-Jan. 20, 1981 Charles L. Schultze

* Advisor to the President on National Security Affairs

Jan. 23, 1977-Jan. 20, 1981 Zbigniew Brzezinski

[Fresh Wind]

Of course, Carter not only made a Reagan presidency possible, he made it necessary.

[Non-Sequitur]

Even if Carter stood solidly behing the Shah then how could he have kept him in power? The man had no support among his own people.

[Mark was here]

My take on it was that Jimmy was for anything with "People's" in it.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Interesting.

JV - pinging for your files.

[moonman]

Thank God Jimmie Carter wasn't allowed to implement all his whacko policies. Can anyone imagine if Carter and his fellow Democrats, which contolled both houses of Congress at that time, actually got along and worked as one during his administration? The amount of devastation to this country would have been freightening, if we could have survived at all.

[moonman]

Some other things which happened under the Carter Presidency include: a.) shutting down state hospitals for the insane as cruel and unusual punishment and releasing a lot of them unto the streets. b.) instituting law libraries in all state and federal prisons. I worked at one during this time, and suddenly all the inmates wanted to become their own lawyers and file appeals and they had the right now to go to these libraries anytime but lockdown time. What a security mess that became.

[Desdemona]

Being a child can be useful sometimes. I don't remember any of this stuff, although it doesn't surprise me. Carter is an idiot.

[Ditter]

Yet another reason to dislike Carter.

I remember this period of time well. There was a group of bearded Iranian 'students' who would trudge past our business in downtown Houston. When ever I drove past them I would roll down the car window and yell "down with the Shah" and they would start yelling and waving their fists around. I didn't realize Carter was behind it.

[wtc911]

As if a light were switched off, the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlevi, portrayed for 20 years as a progressive modern ruler by Islamic standards, was suddenly, in 1977-1978, turned into this foaming at the mouth monster by the international left media.

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Carter didn't throw the Shah out. The leftist press didn't throw the shah out. The iranians who were tired of his gestapo threw him out and it didn't happen in one day or without some of them being tortured and killed.

If the shah was beloved by iranians nothing Carter or anybody else said or did could have forced them to take to the streets in the face of his SAVAK. Unless of course the iranians are witless, spineless people who can't think for themselves. I don't think they are but is that what you're suggesting? What other possible explanation could there be for them to risk death to rid themselves of your beloved?

[metalurgist]

Carter deserves a rope. Not a noose. That would be too quick.

[Guenevere]

bttt

[Casloy]

He not only sold out Iran, he set us on the path that culminated in 9/11. The Shah (and other experts on fundamentalist islam) told Carter that if Iran fell to the Fundamentalist it would cause serious and long term problems for the Middle East. Imagine Iraq today if Iran were an American ally. There would never have been an Iraq/Iran war, and invading Iraq might not have been necessary. We are still paying the price for Carters incredible inability to govern or think beyond the moment. How we survived this monumentaly stupid man is beyond comprehension. He is without a doubt the worst president we will ever have.