Posted on 10/01/2014 1:35:34 PM PDT by illiac
Former President Jimmy Carter marked his 90th birthday Wednesday with a lengthy interview on CNBC Meets where he discussed his one term in office and the one thing he would have handled differently — the Iran Hostage Crisis.
Carter suggested Operation Eagle Claw, a failed 1980 attempt to rescue the hostages taken by Iranian revolutionaries at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, could have been successful if he committed one more helicopter to the mission.
"I think I would have been re-elected easily if I had been able to rescue our hostages from the Iranians," said Carter. "And everybody asks me what would do more, I would say I would send one more helicopter because if I had one more helicopter we could have brought out not only the 52 hostages, but also brought out the rescue team, and when that failed, then I think that was the main factor that brought about my failure to be re-elected. So that's one thing I would change."
Operation Eagle Claw was aborted after three of the helicopters taking part in the mission experienced mechanical problems.
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Jimmah honey, go back to bed.
This man couldn’t even steal an election in Nicaragua.
Jimmah has been senile for at least 20 years. No need to wipe Iran off the map you numbskull!!
It would have been sufficient for you to keep the Shah in power instead of undermining him
Blame much of the rise of Islamic fundamentalism on Carter and Zbegniew Brezinski. Without them it would have been delayed and more difficult.
Jimmah needs his afternoon jelly beans.
(obtuse Ronald Reagan reference)
Hi wished he could have been an Oscar Meyer Peanut....
Roger Whitaker: If is for children.
Geez, today is his 90th birthday.
For his 90th birthday, he is reliving what happened 34 years ago. IF this had happened or that had happened, he could have been re-elected.......
And he thinks the world cares about his musings because.............
Now he figures it out
and he could have been shot dead by John Hinckley, too.
But instead Iran made Carter his bitch. And we’re still having trouble with Iran today in part because of it.
But there’s some good news for Jimmah, he’s not the worst president in history anymore, thanks to Obama, who wins that title hands down.
he is dead right
if we went in and did it, he would have been re-elected
True. We could play what if games with Jimmy Carter endlessly. If only this or that, he would have been the greatest president in history, yadda, yadda, yadda.
I do wonder, what’s up with Jimmy playing these what if games publicly???? He needs to be in the public eye somehow????
>>> “I think I would have been re-elected easily if I had been able to rescue our hostages from the Iranians,” Carter...
Um, no. Not then, not ever.
Enjoy your own fantasy (’I Could Have Wiped Iran Off The Map’), nobody else does.
He could have stayed in the Navy too and spared us all the horrors of 1977-1981.
Even at 90 he continues to prove how utterly stupid he is.
One more helicopter? It was one helicopter that collided with planes and everything went up in flames. We lost a lot of aircraft in that accident as well as men.
One more helicopter? Really?
Right Jimmah!...Just one more helicopter and a brain between your ears.
He isn’t sad about how Iran became the terrorist anti-American country it has become. He is sad because he thinks it cost him his reelection.
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