Jimmy Carter was a terrible President

Nope Jimmy was a piece of crap. HIs foreign affairs were awful, and put us in the mess we have today. We were finally making strides and Obama got in and went straight back to the Carer days.

In regards to the ME and Iran we were finally improving. We had just destroyed Sadam. We let the Iranians know we could totally destroy them over a weekend if need be. Obama pulled out of Iraq way to early. The Iranians now run that country, Obama made a shitty deal with Iran on the nuclear program. Obama fricked up Egypt, Lybia and Syria. The rulers in place were secularist. We let radical Muslim groups overthrow Egypt, Lybia and Syria. Obama also let thousands of Iranian disedenst die in the Green Revolution in 2009. He then pulled out of Iraq early. Recipe for disaster.

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He is thin skinned and acted small toward the Reagans.

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He is a bitter and petty man who has never gotten over his wholesale rejection by the American people.

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The other important number - 52.

Carter was the only president to initiate the only peace deal in the Mideast that still stands today, that between Egypt and Israel.

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Nope Jimmy was a piece of crap. HIs foreign affairs were awful, and put us in the mess we have today. We were finally making strides and Obama got in and went straight back to the Carer days.

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Invading Iraq was the worst foreign policy mistake in at least 100 years, maybe in the history of the whole country.

We have Syrian refugees coming to the US because when we whacked Iraq and threw the Iraqi army out of work, it morphed (I can't spell metastasized) into ISIS and overran part of Syria. Between us, the Syrian national government, ISIS, Russia, France and so on, much of Syria got wrecked.


There are hundreds of Syrians resettled just a few miles from where I live, so I personally wish you would wake the frick up.

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Jimma Cawtah was scared of his own shadow.

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The 1976 election was the first national election I was old enough to vote in. I probably would have voted for Carter but was actually deployed to Europe.

Anyway, the thing I recall about Carter being president was how he and his people would always say why they COULDN'T act. Or get anything done. Ever. He had some bad luck. The Oil embargo, interest rates skyrocketed. But he did suck.

Carter was a workaholic and he was pretty smart personally. But he couldn't delegate anything. He wound up making the schedule for the White House tennis courts.

He is a nice guy, but I can't stand to hear his voice still after all these years.

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Iraq will turn out to be the worst mistake in world history.

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Iraq should have been “invasion – proof” by us because of what Cheney said in 1994: “Pieces might fly off.” Saddam was creepy but what he was really good at was terror and torture and secret police and playing factions off one against the other. Hitler was good at that too.

A stable Iraq was good for US interests. During the Iran-Iraq (1980-88) war we helped both sides. We gave the Iranians weapons and spare parts and we gave Iraq satellite intel.

The Bushies were not incompetent in deciding to invade Iraq. They did it to look tough on terror, having failed miserably on 9/11, and to pursue Israel's objectives, not ours.

Carter was unlucky in a lot of things. Reagan was lucky that Iran and Iraq were distracted the whole time he was president. And he still managed to get about 260 US servicemen killed in Lebanon.