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Carter Hounded by Kwangju Massacre
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| 10/11/02
| Nick Mamatas
Posted on 10/12/2002 5:08:40 PM PDT by paltz
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At least the Marxist Village Voice is being intellectually honest about this guy...unlike the DU'ers'
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posted on
10/12/2002 5:08:40 PM PDT
by
paltz
To: paltz
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posted on
10/12/2002 5:14:28 PM PDT
by
backhoe
To: paltz
Carter lost the Panama Canal, lost Iran, loved Coucesciu (sp) of Rumania, the Sandanistas, Fidel, destroyed our economy, destroyed our military...........
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posted on
10/12/2002 5:24:46 PM PDT
by
OldFriend
To: OldFriend
And how could I have forgotten......he cancelled the Olympics following the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan.
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posted on
10/12/2002 5:28:10 PM PDT
by
OldFriend
To: OldFriend
Who brokered the peace agreement between the Egyptians and the Israelis? Was that Carter's, Ford's or Nixon's?
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posted on
10/12/2002 5:34:25 PM PDT
by
Sawdring
To: paltz
The Peace Prize committee insulted Carter, by saying they were giving him the prize in order to get at Bush. This tainting of Carter's prize will be remembered by historians.
Carter should have shared the prize years ago, when Begin and Sadat got it.
If I were Carter, I would turn down the award as insulting to me, to my country and to my president.
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posted on
10/12/2002 5:35:39 PM PDT
by
syriacus
To: paltz
Bump.
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posted on
10/12/2002 5:39:56 PM PDT
by
Rocko
To: paltz
I have a feeling that had the Kwanju rebellion succeeded the whole peninsula would be under the control of the North Koreans right now.
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posted on
10/12/2002 5:44:05 PM PDT
by
John H K
To: syriacus
If I were Carter, I would turn down the award as insulting to me, to my country and to my president. Yeah but like the lawyer in Doctor Detroit, he can't be insulted.
To: paltz
No one likes to see a "massacre," but a few hundred dead is preferable to seeing South Korea go under to North Korea, which was a real threat.
It's probably one of the few things Carter did right. Brzezinski had the right idea: security and survival of the country first, Democracy later.
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posted on
10/12/2002 6:02:58 PM PDT
by
Cicero
To: Sawdring
Carter.......interestingly enough because he made it clear later that he despised Begin......
Sadat was murdered as a result of the agreement and Mubarak has maintained his distance from all things Israeli since.
Murbarak has enabled Iraq to subvert the embargo and allows his country to be the pipeline for goods going in and out of Iraq.
To: John H K
I have a feeling that had the Kwanju rebellion succeeded the whole peninsula would be under the control of the North Koreans right now. Please Explain your thinking...
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posted on
10/12/2002 7:15:19 PM PDT
by
Jalapeno
To: Cicero
bump with the same question for you in #12. Was the uprising Communist related? Or was N. K. just the most willing to support such an exercise?
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posted on
10/12/2002 7:17:54 PM PDT
by
Jalapeno
To: paltz
At least the Marxist Village Voice is being intellectually honest about this guy...unlike the DU'ers' YEs, I am pleasantly surprised.
THanks for the post.
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posted on
10/12/2002 7:22:11 PM PDT
by
TopQuark
To: paltz
I don't care much for Jimmah, but blaming him for that massacre is a bit of a stretch. When I was in ROK (admittedly 10 yrs later), we were under curfew several times due to student protests. The old-timer Koreans, some of them war veterans, were mostly very grateful to the US for saving their freedom. One of them I worked with had the same attitude toward student protesters as I'm sure WW II veterans must have had toward Nam war protesters. He told me "BS! They THINK they know everything!" He was quite agitated when he told me that.
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posted on
10/12/2002 7:29:50 PM PDT
by
FlyVet
To: paltz
Carter Hounded by Kwangju MassacreAw, lighten up, Jimmy - you're being waaaay too hard on yourself. It's not like you gave away the Panama Canal or something, is it?
To: MarineDad
Wasn't the Panama Canal going to have to be turned over to the locals and Jimmy did it before the 99 years or so was up? I recall that it was quite a big stink
To: thetruckster
What I was asking then: as why not leased it again?
To: razorback-bert
Ummm
then IS why not leased it again?
To: paltz
This Village Voice writer is very foolish to blame carter for what happened at Kwangju. The Koreans had a conflict. Carter wasn't there. Look at this example of how silly the liberals are in wanting to blame america for just about everything.
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