9-11: A Jimmy Carter Production
From tomorrow’s Jerusalem Post:
We just don’t get it. The Left in America is screaming to high heaven that the mess we are in in Iraq and the war on terrorism has been caused by the right-wing and that George W. Bush, the so-called “dim-witted cowboy,” has created the entire mess.
The truth is the entire nightmare can be traced back to the liberal democratic policies of the leftist Jimmy Carter, who created a firestorm that destabilized our greatest ally in the Muslim world, the shah of Iran, in favor of a religious fanatic, the ayatollah Khomeini.
Carter viewed Khomeini as more of a religious holy man in a grassroots revolution than a founding father of modern terrorism. Carter’s ambassador to the UN, Andrew Young, said “Khomeini will eventually be hailed as a saint.” Carter’s Iranian ambassador, William Sullivan, said, “Khomeini is a Gandhi-like figure.” Carter adviser James Bill proclaimed in a Newsweek interview on February 12, 1979 that Khomeini was not a mad mujahid, but a man of “impeccable integrity and honesty.”
The shah was terrified of Carter. He told his personal confidant, “Who knows what sort of calamity he [Carter] may unleash on the world?”
Let’s look at the results of Carter’s misguided liberal policies: the Islamic Revolution in Iran; the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (Carter’s response was to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics); the birth of Osama bin Laden’s terrorist organization; the Iran-Iraq War, which cost the lives of millions dead and wounded; and yes, the present war on terrorism and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
WHEN CARTER entered the political fray in 1976, America was still riding the liberal wave of anti-Vietnam War emotion. Carter asked for an in-depth report on Iran even before he assumed the reins of government and was persuaded that the shah was not fit to rule Iran. 1976 was a banner year for pacifism: Carter was elected president, Bill Clinton became attorney-general of Arkansas, and Albert Gore won a place in the Tennessee House of Representatives.
In his anti-war pacifism, Carter never got it that Khomeini, a cleric exiled to Najaf in Iraq from 1965-1978, was preparing Iran for revolution. Proclaiming “the West killed God and wants us to bury him,” Khomeini’s weapon of choice was not the sword but the media. Using tape cassettes smuggled by Iranian pilgrims returning from the holy city of Najaf, he fueled disdain for what he called gharbzadegi (”the plague of Western culture”).
Carter pressured the shah to make what he termed human rights concessions by releasing political prisoners and relaxing press censorship. Khomeini could never have succeeded without Carter. The Islamic Revolution would have been stillborn.
Gen. Robert Huyser, Carter’s military liaison to Iran, once told me in tears: “The president could have publicly condemned Khomeini and even kidnapped him and then bartered for an exchange with the [American Embassy] hostages, but the president was indignant. ‘One cannot do that to a holy man,’ he said.”
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has donned the mantle of Ayatollah Khomeini, taken up bin Laden’s call, and is fostering an Islamic apocalyptic revolution in Iraq with the intent of taking over the Middle East and the world.
Jimmy Carter became the poster boy for the ideological revolution of the 1960s in the West, hell bent on killing the soul of America. The bottom line: Carter believed then and still does now is that evil really does not exist; people are basically good; America should embrace the perpetrators and castigate the victims.
N THE ‘60S it was mass rebellion after the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. When humanity confronts eternity, the response is always rebellion or repentance. The same ideologues who fought to destroy the soul of America with the “God is dead” movement in the 1960s are now running the arts, the universities, the media, the State Department, Congress, and Senate, determined more then ever to kill the soul of America while the East attempts to kill the body. Carter’s world view defines the core ideology of the Democratic Party.
What is going on in Iraq is no mystery to those of us who have had our fingers on the pulse of both Iran and Iraq for decades. The Iran-Iraq war was a war of ideologies. Saddam Hussein saw himself as an Arab leader who would defeat the non-Arab Persians. Khomeini saw it as an opportunity to export his Islamic Revolution across the borders to the Shi’ites in Iraq and then beyond to the Arab countries.
Throughout the war both leaders did everything possible to incite the inhabitants of each country to rebel - precisely what Iran is doing in Iraq today. Khomeini encouraged the Shi’ites across the border to remove Saddam from power and establish an Islamic republic like in Iran.
Carter’s belief that every crisis can be resolved with diplomacy - and nothing but diplomacy - now permeates the Democratic Party. Unfortunately, Carter is wrong.
There are times when evil must be openly confronted and defeated.
KHOMEINI HAD the help of the PLO in Iran. They supplied weapons and terrorists to murder Iranians and incite mobs in the streets. No wonder Yasser Arafat was hailed as a friend of Khomeini after he seized control of Iran and was given the Israeli Embassy in Teheran with the PLO flag flying overhead.
The Carter administration scrambled to assure the new regime that the United States would maintain diplomatic ties with Iran. But on April 1, 1979 the greatest April Fools’ joke of all time was played, as Khomeini proclaimed it the first day of the government of God.
In February 1979 Khomeini had boarded an Air France flight to return to Teheran with the blessing of Jimmy Carter. The moment he arrived, he proclaimed: “I will kick his teeth in” - referring to then prime minister Shapour Bakhtiar, who was left in power with a US pledge of support. He was assassinated in Paris by Iranian agents in 1991.
I sat in the home of Gen. Huyser, who told me the shah feared he would lose the country if he implemented Carter’s polices. Carter had no desire to see the shah remain in power. He really believed that a cleric - whose Islamist fanaticism he did not understand in the least - would be better for human rights and Iran.
He could have changed history by condemning Khomeini and getting the support of our allies to keep him out of Iran.
The writer is a New York Times best-selling author. His newest book is The Final Move Beyond Iraq. www.beyondiraq.com
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Well done, peanut farmer, don’t even know how you got a Sea Wolf class SSN named after you; you sure-as-hell didn’t deserve it.
June 19th, 2007 at 9:49 pmAt the time, I wondered why we didn’t “take care of Khomeni” while he was still in Paris. Prevent him from leaving Paris to go to Iran. This is all history, and yes, it’s true. It may have been a surprise to Carter, but it was no surprise to me or any rational human being. Why would you abandon an ally (Shah) for a religion fanatic who preached hatred of our way of life? It’s like Carter believed in the “tide of history,” and just wanted to ride it like a wave. Go with the flow. If that was the case, the “tide of history” would have “buried us” as the Russians said. Instead, the Societ Union crumbled. Today, Carter is mouthing off about how we shouldn’t discriminate against Hamas versus Fatah. What a gigantic chump.
June 19th, 2007 at 10:05 pmJimmy,
June 19th, 2007 at 10:15 pmIts time you started pushing up the peanuts.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8PS9J381&show_article=1
Why does this tired old codger continue to run his mouth, reminiscing about the “good ole daze,” as if he has something of relevance to say?
Wasn’t this fool voted out of office almost 3 f’ing decades ago?
Jimmy, get your ass back up on the porch, drink some lemonade, cover yourself with your blankey so’s you don’t catch cold, and shut your putrid blow-hole! …Mother, wipe that drool off his chin!
There, there, Jimmy, the dementia will pass, it comes and goes in spells….
June 19th, 2007 at 11:12 pmPat hit on something here. The Lib’s had to endure the rightly applied critism that carter was the biggest failure all through the 80’s and 90’s. Now that his failure has come to bite us they are besides themselves with fear that once again liberalism will correctly be seen as a failure. Nothing is more important to a liberal then their public persona. As long as people like them, then there isn’t a problem in the world.
The whole bush is an idiot mantra has been a carefully designed plan to perform that perverbial slight of hand. If they yell loud enough just maybe people will look at something else. Its the same reason iraq has somehow become bush’s war when in truth we’re cleaning up carter’s failures.
In the end cowardliness is the core of liberalism. If we keep pointing this out through example and refuse to take the bait when they yell and scream they will crumble.
No longer can they hide behind a print media that is more than happy to be part of the magic show.
June 19th, 2007 at 11:28 pmMICHAEL D. EVANS
We just don’t get it. The Left in America is screaming to high heaven that the mess we are in in Iraq and the war on terrorism has been caused by the right-wing and that George W. Bush, the so-called “dim-witted cowboy,” has created the entire mess.
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Yes as MICHAEL D. EVANS said the Universities, the MSM, the State Department, and both the demoCraps and the Trunks couldn’t spell the words Defend America against Evil, because they think all America needs is some more Gay Rights on paper, a huge Medical Single Payer Beauraucracy and a sincere tear for planet heat.
The Sentinels who should exalt Western man’s finest Ideals, Literature, Science and philosophy and sound a warning against any threats to it have been infected with a doubting and flaccid self-hate.
They refuse to Defend Our Heritage as superior, they are only willing to catorigize Western civilization as a mere “garment” and equivalent to any “garment”, sic any peoples culture, for instance even equal with Islamic culture and its Sharia laws.
lefty Main Stream Media example: the current crop of rapporteurs express their contempt for the current mission in A-stan and Iraq every day.
Refusing to recognize what’s at stake.
That’s Right, sometimes subtly but usually overtly, they express Contempt for the mission, Contempt for the job that the Best of us Americans are performing every single day. How could you ask for more courage when they already sacrifice life and limb? Our Americans serving in the Armed Forces today are truly the most magnificent Americans there are.
This new crop of media are the fruit of the anti-Military-fathers from the Vietnam era, who were then the shallowest generation of news men and women ever.
Just in case you weren’t alive during the war in Vietnam, the elite Media back then, from editor to correspondent, were packed full of themselves [hubris] and envy.
They pretended to know better than us, yep better than our courageous men and women [military] because they had bull-shitted themselves into believing that they were SUPERIOR than the American Marines, Soldiers, Airman, Coast Guardsmen, and Navy.
There wasn’t an Ernie Pile, Bill Roggio or Michael Yon or Pat Dollard amongst the lot of them.
Today the “rapporteurs’ and editors come up with the most slanted articles and Headlines…..
“The Powerful Islamic Courts..”
“The Deadly Spring Offensive..”
etc.
You’ve seen them.. an article that calls the Coalition “invaders” and yet calls the Paki terrorist in A-stan, “the insurgents”.
media Cliches on top of Stereotypes.
They are possessed by an evil that is tireless and will keep on trying to demoralize us.
But we must never forget that *OUR* job is to defend liberty and freedom and that it is a battle that is never finished.
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what do you call an old antique Media whore that no one pays attention to anymore…?
LOL!
June 19th, 2007 at 11:40 pmIs there such a thing a Stockholm Syndrome by Proxy? Seriously Carter, what are you thinking, support Hamas over Fatah? Bad to worse is better? You aren’t looking through rose colored glasses but some kaleidescope dude. I have not been able to make any sense out of him at all, doesn’t he see what is happening in Gaza? Palestinians killing Palestinians pell mell? Oh yeah, just what an already fubar region needs. We are rolling headlong into tyranny, blindly following the peace at any price crowd who are selling us out because they are pussies and we are too because we cannot seem to get the popular opinion against ‘men of peace’ like Carter. WTF?
June 19th, 2007 at 11:50 pmYes as MICHAEL D. EVANS said the Universities, the MSM, the State Department, and both the demoCraps and the Trunks couldn’t spell the words Defend America against Evil, because they think all America needs is some more Gay Rights on paper, a huge Medical Single Payer Bureaucracy and a sincere tear for planet heat.
forgive the liberty, i was paraphrasing and adding to his paragraph. *Bureaucracy*
Yes like MICHAEL D. EVANS said, I also believe that Universities, the MSM, the State Department, ……
June 19th, 2007 at 11:54 pmCarter had his dark angel :Brzinsky
who initiated the policy you are suffuring in
the purpose was to undermine Russia, an alliance with a theocratic power would stay more secure than with democracies ; they forgot that Putin has a high IQ and that Russia could stand with its oil and gaz, and retie alliance with the former US alliees, the mullahcraty is playing with this
June 20th, 2007 at 12:03 amI’m not trying to pass myself off as a super sensitive and I’ll bet others have had similar feelings over things in their lives also. But, I’m not lying. This was back when Carter was running for President. I just happened to be walking along Market Street at 16th here in Philadelphia. Carter just happened to be coming out of the building on his way to his car. Some had lined up to shake the hand of a Presidential candidate and I was about half way down the line. My touch with history. He got to where I was about halfway down the line and started to reach towards me and I started to extend my arm but as he was now in front of me, I don’t know what made me do it, I did one of these reeling my arm back in and had this feeling of I don’t want to touch you. I don’t know, it just all of a sudden hit me.
June 20th, 2007 at 1:51 amMr Peanut head is the same dolt who decided that the US will not support anyone with a bad “Human Rights” record.
This guy should have stuck to growing peanuts. Or maybe he ate so many of them that he now has a peanut for a brain.
And isn’t it a shame that while many who get older, also get wiser; while demented libtards like Mr Peanut Head get dumber with the years.
At least we now know that Mr Peanut man’s real agenda was driven by his anti-semetic leanings. Could he have possibly been a secret member of the Klan?
It was good enough for KKK Byrd, perhaps it was good enough for Mr Peanut too?
After all, “stupid is as stupid does”.
June 20th, 2007 at 3:05 amWhen is the MSM ever going to get it. He was indecisive thirty years ago when he was President ( I can only imagine those who had to serve under his command in the Navy). He was disconnected back then, why do they think such a feeble old man who had zero basis in competency back then suddenly has an insight worht looking into. When he talks, just smile nicely, but tactfully dismiss him for what he realy is-far gone. Far gone back then, way far gone now. That suffices for plus ninety percent of the Democrats too.
June 20th, 2007 at 3:38 amJohn Cunningham,
What made you do it? A sixth sense, sudden coldness, the hair stand up on the back of your neck? Good to trust your insticts and also to take pride in having an enhance BS/Stupidity Dectector in fully calibrated form.
June 20th, 2007 at 3:43 amWhy don’t we start a movement to rename the sub? Maybe SSN do whatever you want to us, SSN dimmitude?
June 20th, 2007 at 4:02 amJerry, I’m not exactly a warm and fuzzy, touchy, feely to begin with but I do like people. It was just simply, close enough, ‘I don’t want to touch you type thing’. I’ve shaked hands with a lot of people and admit that sometimes I was just going through the motions. Wish I could embellish the moment with ‘a hand behind my hand’, but I’d be lying if I did. It simply happened that way and it comes to mind everytime I see him I remember that day. That’s all, folks.
June 20th, 2007 at 4:06 amThey are possessed by an evil that is tireless and will keep on trying to demoralize us.
Thank you Rubin. So true.
June 20th, 2007 at 4:46 amTo paraphrase the iconic ‘Comic Bookstore Guy’ on “The Simpsons:”
“WORST PRESIDENT….EVER!”
And the most pathetic thing is this delusional ass doesn’t even recognize this obvious truism and continues to run his mouth and cause damage to our country to this very day (see his recent ridiculous “The US should stop favoring Fatah over Hamas” remark), as classless and utterly clueless an ex-President as we will ever have to endure. He’s like a pimple that just won’t go away.
June 20th, 2007 at 4:57 amDon,
“Why don’t we start a movement to rename the sub? Maybe SSN do whatever you want to us, SSN dimmitude?”
How about SSN PEANUTTY lol
June 20th, 2007 at 6:00 amTREASON - This word imports a betraying, treachery, or breach of allegiance.
June 20th, 2007 at 6:05 amHowever,
The Constitution of the United States, Art. III, defines treason against the United States to consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid or comfort. This offence is punished with death. By the same article of the Constitution, no person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Maybe we need to amend article III to include breach of allegiance, although the adding and abeding clause out to work on Dems like Carter, Pelosi, and Reid.
Pat,
I enjoyed the history lesson. A very informative article that clarified some fundementals of Carter’s presidency.
John,
June 20th, 2007 at 6:26 amI believe you about “the feeling” you had that you didn’t want to touch Carter’s hand. I too have experienced moments of discernment. I have found that it is not something that happens all the time–but there have been several distinct moments in time where I just know something is wrong–and I want no part of it. Personally, I believe it is the Holy Spirit that enables us to discern evil. Which is not to say Carter is necessarily evil per se, but perhaps bad influences were around him to insure that he made some of those very choices that the above article discusses. As the end times draw near every world leader has a role to fulfill–some good and some bad. Weak leaders are the perfect tool for evil influences.
Hey, we gotta be nice to this guy! A Nobel Peace prize is nothing to sneeze about! I mean, he and Arafat got one. That’s gotta mean something….
In seriousness, the man seems to be able to handle small projects, like building homes for his Habitat for Humanity. But he loses it all when the project gets a ‘tad’ bit larger, say when dealing with national security.
The man sucks! Plain and simple. I am tired of the MSM and leftist organizations placing this moron on a pedestal. He started this garbage and now he wants to continue to moderate from the sidelines on how to clean up HIS mess.
You want to know my answer to the middle east problem? It has nothing to do with the Jews. It has nothing to do with the Palestinians. He has EVERYTHING to do with Iran. We simply line our boys up on the Iraq/Iran border and proceed in an easterly fashion until there is not a hint of the looney Ayatollahs anywhere. I truly believe that if we hit Iran hard enough and fast enough, it would send reverberations throughout the entire region and the war. And we can do this; our grade-A kick-ass military did it with Iraq and we can do it in Iran.
Sure, the usual whiners will come crawling out of the woodwork and act like infantile morons, such as the “cheese eating surrender monkeys” (France) and others. But who cares?
Simply put, I want the Iraqi equation solved as quickly as the next person. But I realize that this will not be resolved until Iran is de-fanged. Syria and Suadi Arabia would then seriously think about their own internal problems and clean up their act, which would mean that they would stop funding the terrorist elements in Palestine and Israel might finally have a chance to have peace with their surrounding neighbors.
BTW, about Israel (since Carter likes to take credit for the Peace Accords between Israel and Egypt). If God is TRULY on the Muslim’s side and Jews are nothing but pigs and apes, then why is it that every time Israel clashes with their neighbors, they kick butt? This, to me, is one of the undermining reasons for the hatred to Israel; all those people still in Egypt and Syria who remember how Israel ripped them up in the ten day war and other confrontations have to live with the failure.
Just my two cents…
June 20th, 2007 at 7:30 amI have just one question. One F’NG question:
Why does our MSM constantly dig up every quote from every time Joe McCarthy insulted a coffeboy back from the early 1950s, and mau-mau the Repubs w/them…but we never see these devastating quotes from high-level officials from the Carter Admin years of the late 1970s, and they’re NEVER held against todays Dhimmi-rats…
Young…Sullivan…McHenry…Vance…Carter…No, we wdn’t want to re-examine THOSE policies and compare them to current Dhims, wd we? “I don’t see a connection, what’s your point, huh?”
June 20th, 2007 at 7:36 am“Carter viewed Khomeini as more of a religious holy man in a grassroots revolution than a founding father of modern terrorism”
“Carter’s ambassador to the UN, Andrew Young, said “Khomeini will eventually be hailed as a saint”
“Carter’s Iranian ambassador, William Sullivan, said, “Khomeini is a Gandhi-like figure”
“Carter adviser James Bill proclaimed in a Newsweek interview on February 12, 1979 that Khomeini was not a mad mujahid, but a man of “impeccable integrity and honesty”
PROOF: STUPIDITY GROWS. one bad President does have an impact for years…
Jimmy was the mother of a bastard Jihad child!!!
June 20th, 2007 at 8:56 amJohn - regarding your not wanting to touch the hand of benevolent evil, it reminded me of something I had heard, that the the Army is encouraging soldiers to trust their feelings of intuition or the ‘gut feeling’ and to act on them, even if it means not following a mission plan to the letter, that in that fluid environment your ’sixth sense’, ’spidey sense’ should be respected.
also crushing the dreams and lifetime efforts of our elite athletes sure showed those soviets how tough we were
check out a graphic on the great peanut farmer
http://i2.tinypic.com/ve3nnp.jpg
June 20th, 2007 at 8:57 amHey, lately I’ve been having fantasies about hurling an American flag on a pole through a Democrat’s chest like a javelin, is that normal, or should I get some therapy?
June 20th, 2007 at 10:34 amHeather, the history lesson above did not include the economy under carter.
http://www.vcrisis.com/index.php?content=letters/200408310659
http://voluntaryxchange.typepad.com/voluntaryxchange/2004/07/a_jimmy_carter_.html
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41079
“Domestic Affairs. On assuming office in 1977, President Carter inherited an economy that was slowly emerging from a recession. He had severely criticized former President Ford for his failures to control inflation and relieve unemployment, but after four years of the Carter presidency, both inflation and unemployment were considerably worse than at the time of his inauguration. The annual inflation rate rose from 4.8% in 1976 to 6.8% in 1977, 9% in 1978, 11% in 1979, and hovered around 12% at the time of the 1980 election campaign. Although Carter had pledged to eliminate federal deficits, the deficit for the fiscal year 1979 totaled $27.7 billion, and that for 1980 was nearly $59 billion. With approximately 8 million people out of work, the unemployment rate had leveled off to a nationwide average of about 7.7% by the time of the election campaign, but it was considerably higher in some industrial states.
Carter also faced a drastic erosion of the value of the U.S. dollar in the international money markets, and many analysts blamed the decline on a large and persistent trade deficit, much of it a result of U.S. dependence on foreign oil. The president warned that Americans were wasting too much energy, that domestic supplies of oil and natural gas were running out, and that foreign supplies of petroleum were subject to embargoes by the producing nations, principally by members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). In mid-1979, in the wake of widespread shortages of gasoline, Carter advanced a long-term program designed to solve the energy problem. He proposed a limit on imported oil, gradual price decontrol on domestically produced oil, a stringent program of conservation, and development of alternative sources of energy such as solar, nuclear, and geothermal power, oil and gas from shale and coal, and synthetic fuels. In what was probably his most noted domestic legislative accomplishment, he pushed a significant portion of his energy program through Congress.
Other domestic accomplishments included approval of the Carter plan to overhaul the civil-service system, making it easier to fire incompetents; creation of new departments of education and energy; deregulation of the airlines to stimulate competition and lower fares; and environmental efforts that included passage of a law preserving vast wilderness areas of Alaska.
Carter was not successful in gaining support for his national health-insurance bill or his proposals for welfare reform and controls on hospital costs. He was unsuccessful also in gaining congressional approval to consolidate natural-resource agencies within the Department of the Interior and expanded economic development units in the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Also, his tax-reform proposals were not favorably received by Congress.”
from : http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0078990-00
more:
http://www.vcrisis.com/index.php?content=letters/200408310659
http://voluntaryxchange.typepad.com/voluntaryxchange/2004/07/a_jimmy_carter_.html
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41079
June 20th, 2007 at 11:23 amSure, the usual whiners will come crawling out of the woodwork and act like infantile morons, such as the “cheese eating surrender monkeys” (France) and others. But who cares?
yes, who cares if you make out of it a big hell mess, may-be you should reread Nostradamus, he may has written a verset for your concern
Fortunately it doesn’t hang to you to decide so, hopefully there are wiser people who can visualize the repercutions, not talking of cheeze eating surrender monkeys but of “burger eating rush around cola monkeys”
June 20th, 2007 at 11:35 am@patriot -
So, you’re for flag desecration …?
June 20th, 2007 at 11:42 amHeather and Steve in NC, the dividing line between facts and feelings.
patriot, I’ve had similar (feelings) but they revolve around the driving of a stake.
June 20th, 2007 at 11:53 amhis habitat for humanity thing sucks too. i can’t wait til the dirt comes out on that, someday. he’s a cranky, closed minded, bitter, greedy sob.
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June 20th, 2007 at 1:08 pmPatriot-no actually, that’s not a completely normal urge of a well adjusted patriot. Take the flag off first. Even in your wild fantasies Old Glory deserves better treatment.
June 20th, 2007 at 1:20 pmPatriot - that just made my day, no wait, my week! Thank you sir!
Brings back memories of rumsfeld47 (https://pat-dollard.com/stats/?stats_author=rumsfeld47) 
Therapy is hanging out here with you fine people on this great site! Thank you, Pat! Cheers!
June 20th, 2007 at 3:14 pmInfidel is right: No flag desecration patriot. Just use the spear end.
June 20th, 2007 at 4:18 pmThis piece should run page 1 of every newspaper in the land every time that gasbag Carter opens his treasonous mouth. This is the guy who kissed Arafat’s ass, Chavez’ ass and Castro’s ass. The pansy never met a dicatator he didn’t like. Can you just imagine if Carter had been POTUS in the early 60’s? The Soviets would be ruling the world right now. And how does Newsweek publish an article back in Feb or March naming the 10 worst presidents and leave Carter off the list? Perhaps because all the ones on the list are already dead and can’t sue the crap out of Newsweek? And they had one guy (Buchanan?) on the list who died after one month in office…how the hell does he rate as one of the worst? Hell, he should be in the top ten…he didn’t have time to fuck anything up.
June 20th, 2007 at 4:37 pmSo, speaking of ridding the world of despots, are we in favor of ridding them (i.e. Hitler, Communism, Shah, Saddam) or aren’t we? I’m confused. Who knew in 1978 what the true nature of the Iranian Revolution was? All we knew was the Iranians were pissed at us for supporting a tyrant. Let us not forget also, Carter inherited a broken military which was evident by the botched rescue mission. I see the whole episode as another failure of the CIA to gather adequate intel. The CIA continues to fail us. It did back then, it did on 9-11 and it did in 2003 in assessing Iraq. In my opinion, the entire intelligence gathering agency should be reassessed. There are other issues that should be addressed as well. As a teacher, I think we should give German and French language instruction the boot in public schools and replace them with Chinese and Arabic. Just some thoughts,
Kipp
June 20th, 2007 at 5:51 pmkipp I pay for private education, so my kids are not taught a social agenda instead of history.
I pay for my children’s education to keep them from people like you.
June 20th, 2007 at 6:14 pmCarter is history–history has demonstrated he was a D- president (except for the Camp David accord–which has been sorely tested, he accomplished nothing good.) He’s a pacifist leftie who is irrelevant in the real world, except for his use by the enemies of America as a mouthpiece for their views. The CIA is no more to blame than you–I believe they wanted to off Khomeni in Paris–but the Church Committee and the Dem Congress put the kabosh on that–remember the Church Committee? In fact, it’s deja vu all over again, the same people (Carter, etc.) who were behind it back then are the same people (with more added) who moan about Camp Gitmo and waterboarding! and rendition! and enemy combatants needing all the rights under the Constitution of a US citizen! Oh yeah, Shah was as bad as Hitler.
June 20th, 2007 at 6:35 pmOK, you’re right, the blood of traitors would only ruin a good flag, but the idea was the part that went in the ground would penetrate, meaning it would pin them to the ground and the flag would still fly free. But, to avoid any unwanted splatters, I’ll take the flag off first, fold it in the nice little triangle (doing this all very slowly so the Liberal artard gets confused), slowly look up at them, grab the pole, and pull a move right out of 300 on them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmW-Tnl6nbk
(for a visual of my original idea, at 20sec., the flag would be on the non-stabby part of the spear, flying free as it sailed into the traitor’s chest.)
June 20th, 2007 at 7:05 pmOk patriot
you’re pronounced redeemed and normal and loved the clip.
Kipp, ” I see the whole episode as another failure of the CIA to gather adequate intel.” The intel was gathered, it’s the judgement of WHO processed that was and IS the issue.
Now run back to the huffing and puffington post or daily-kuss or wherever you get your talking points from and ask them this: Was it the same “broken military” that was so incompetent that it “botched the rescue mission” the same one that in January of 1981 suddenly became an object of fear and panic?
No, let’s no be silly Kippy, it was the WHO part and his judgement that sent the ILamians back-pedaling to beat all hell.
You liberals have a gaping blindspot that make you fodder for the enemy, and light-duty around here, just like President Peanut Farmer.
June 20th, 2007 at 7:31 pmSteve,
Do you think that teachers that teach in Private school are somehow educated differently than teachers that teach in public school? They come from the same universities. Oh and by the way, I teach in a private school!!!!!!
If you fear your child is somehow being indoctrinated at school you are doing a piss poor job at home,
Kipp
June 20th, 2007 at 7:57 pmfuck, now I may have to home school my children if a bunch of kipps are in charge
Kipp - Your biased left viewpoint is evident in your posts, and I am sure that that personal viewpoint is driven home to your students, you are teaching a personal agenda based on your political beliefs. I bet you think that you do it for the good of us all.
If you were to stand before my children, you would find me in front of you shortly, confronting you on your desire to teach an ideology instead of facts.
You are a traditional liberal puke, the kind that is closed minded and unwilling to deal with facts that may conflict with your prejudiced views. I feel sorry for your students for they will leave your teachings worse off than before, having suffered through your mind numbing diatribes you call education.
June 20th, 2007 at 9:15 pmI dont think i ever heard Ghandi refer to non hindus as equivalent to feces, have you.? yet we should trust the likes of carter when he says that Khomeni could be compared to Gandhi.
Carter is a traitor who has lost his mind!
June 20th, 2007 at 9:17 pm,” speaking of ridding the world of despots, are we in favor of ridding them (i.e. Hitler, Communism, Shah, Saddam) or aren’t we? I’m confused. Who knew in 1978 what the true nature of the Iranian Revolution was? All we knew was the Iranians were pissed at us for supporting a tyrant. Let us not forget also, Carter inherited a broken military which was evident by the botched rescue mission. I see the whole episode as another failure of the CIA to gather adequate intel. The CIA continues to fail us. It did back then, it did on 9-11 and it did in 2003 in assessing Iraq. In my opinion, the entire intelligence gathering agency should be reassessed. There are other issues that should be addressed as well. As a teacher, I think we should give German and French language instruction the boot in public schools and replace them with Chinese and Arabic. Just some thoughts”
I thought it was Bush’s fault, not the intelligence? Dont you remember: “Bush lied, people died”?
Isnt it obvious though that the assessment of khomeini was wrong? yet clinton and carter still hold onto these strange notions that Muslims in the middle east are oppressed victims looking to free themselves from the tyrany of western self interest.
I personally think carter is not a dhimma but a muslim in hiding. he feels their pain!
June 20th, 2007 at 9:26 pmSteve,
Hmmm, maybe you should be a psychologist. You seem to have me pegged. Each and everyday I take my “Little Red Book”, my DVD of “An Inconvenient Truth” and my collection of “The Nation” and begin by chanting…
Since most of those in here are so far “right” they could hear the likes of Bismark snoring, I guess I would be considered a leftist. But I am a moderate leftist. As I have said in here before, my champions are the liberals who founded this great nation: Madison, Jefferson, Adams, etc… If you spent a day in my class, I think you would be quite satisfied. I read this website because I like to get all points of view. In my class, I present the same. I feel as comfortable explaining how Conservatives approach certain topics as I do Liberals. I have nothing to gain by trying to get kids to latch onto a position. I gain by getting them to think. If I didn’t, I would suck as a teacher.
Be careful before you presuppose. THAT is the handiwork of the ill informed and the closed minded.
June 20th, 2007 at 9:49 pmyea kipp –
I went back and read many of your previous posts on this site before I posted that liberal puke comment, but thanks for admitting you are biased to the left, you fit into our education system well
and by the way, do you make the students recite the words to john lennon’s ‘imagine’ before beginning class?
Since liberals today are against the freedoms of speech and thought, I doubt that the founders of this nation could identify with the racist, hateful and closed mindedness I see from todays crowd on the left, interesting you acknowledge being one of them…..
June 20th, 2007 at 10:18 pmKipp, remember that in a lot of arab countries french language is spoken, and I’ll try to get back a site later where it is said that even a net programm in french is on tests for american GI “how to investigate a population, how to get friendly…”
June 20th, 2007 at 11:50 pmhttp://www.tacticallanguage.com/tacticaliraqi/gettingthem.htm
I was wondering why french, I got the answer from a former marine
June 21st, 2007 at 5:16 amHey, Kipp, here’s something in my crystal ball I want you to remember: global warming is a political hoax. This is new material to teach in your classes. Check out the Canadian newspaper The National Post’s series on this topic. I know all the teachers are on the bandwagon to brainwash our kids, so I thought you should know. In defense of teachers, my daughter’s teacher this year was wonderful. Yeah, she put out the global warming thing and supports Hillary because she’s a woman, but she didn’t strongarm the kids with it.
June 21st, 2007 at 10:59 amSteve,
Hey, thanks for reading my work. It is true, most teachers are liberals. It goes with the whole low wages deal in exchange for improving the lives of people thing. Why do you think most rich folks are conservatives? Very few rich people go into teaching. You calling me a liberal puke is a compliment. I am proud to be liberal. The best things that have occurred in this nation were done by liberals.
If liberals are against freedom of speech and thought then why do conservatives such as Nixon and Bush have such a bunker mentality once they become president?
I know the far left are crazy loons. I hate the notion that people with differing opinions are shouted down on college campuses. If I saw them do this in person I would join the other side in condemning them no matter what the issue. In the words of my favorite conservative, Joe Scarbourough, one must know the other side in order to test ones belief system. If you are not doing that you are an ideologue.
France the Retour,
I’m sorry to report to you that France lost any global significance in 1918. Most of the French speak English and those areas of North Africa and the Levant that do teach French also speak Arabic. Other than the value of learning a Romance language (of which Spanish would be a better choice) I don’t think French education is doing the US kids or the nation any good.
Kipp
June 21st, 2007 at 11:31 amDon’t forget Jimmy Carter gave away the Panama Canal.
June 21st, 2007 at 1:18 pmKipp,
you are a liberal when you act like you went into education to help save the children despite the “low wages”. And then proclaim conservatives to be the rich. This is classic liberal victim mentality. rich against poor. Well guess what? You are not underpaid, and you likely went into education because every other thing you wanted to do didnt work out.
You want an inspiration in education google search Joe clark , the former east side high(patterson, new jersey) principle who inspired the movie “lean on me”. He is obviously very intelligent and hard working . His book , “laying down the law” shows that caring for students, the poor and lowly means not feeding them excuses for failure as you do in describing your low wages and pitting rich against poor. it means going after the low life scum in the schools who share their misery to bring everyone down. It means fighting the liberal beaurocracy, getting rid of tenure that protects lazy teachers and coasters. This man got results and turned around the school and turned normally frightened pessimistic community into a group of believers not whiners. This man should run for president.
If you think your wages are low, then blame the market. If you really want to help children, then wages shouldnt matter should they? I am a teacher , my wages are just fine, in fact i think they are quite generous. I dont have tenure, i work jobs on the side , teaching adults in their businesses and in peoples homes to make extra money(because i am a greedy conservative) and i dont bring politics into the classroom. Kids dont need the BS. focus on the 3 r’s help them understand what went into creating our nation and leave at thast. the liberal indoctrination will begin for them in the university.
stop feeding into the victim mentality , it tears at the fabric of our nation and creates a welfare mindset. try inspiring students to greatness, and dont load them up with conspiracy garbage that gives them an excuse to quit and to fail. Teachers need to inspire students to be positive and see negatives as an opportunity to grow. The blame game is a mindset, that divides people along black and white, rich and poor,man and woman, gay and straight, liberal and conservative. WE are the UNITED states. Unity comes from positive attitudes. negativism is the mindset of losers. If the mind believes the , body achieves. if the mind doesnt believe, what do you think the result is?
June 21st, 2007 at 5:40 pmKipp
“It goes with the whole low wages deal in exchange for improving the lives of people thing”
jeez do you want me to get the wood so you can make that cross you are bearing
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Why do you think most rich folks are conservatives?
is it because they work hard and do not believe they are victims needing the government to provide for them
actually the number liberals in congress are wealthier than the conservatives,
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“If liberals are against freedom of speech”
ever heard of the fairness doctrine? or political correctness
who supports that bullshit? conservatives?
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also France has recently joined the real world in the elections and have decided that liberal socialism has failed them and it is time to go to work,
plus the French can lay down some seriously good dining
and nothing is sexier than a lady speaking french
Kipp, I sounded like you years ago, but I decided to grow up and deal with reality, you may someday also, there is hope
June 21st, 2007 at 6:08 pmOn rich versus poor: Actually, public school teachers make pretty good money when you consider they work 9 months of the year. Also, I am a conservative and I started out poor for about the first 30 years of my life, but I always worked hard and saved my money, and guess what–I’m not poor anymore.
June 21st, 2007 at 8:30 pmI’m sorry to report to you that France lost any global significance in 1918. Most of the French speak English and those areas of North Africa and the Levant that do teach French also speak Arabic. Other than the value of learning a Romance language (of which Spanish would be a better choice) I don’t think French education is doing the US kids or the nation any good.
1918, what do you mean ?
if we didn’t go anylonger on colonial conquests, true ! but we were retroceded the black african german colonies though, which Cameroun was a wealthy part !
so when you say french is no more spoken in Arab countries, you partly right, it the arab, but french is still used a the administrative, school, and exchange language, (english is tought as well, as the necessary mondialisation language) plus a big part of black Africa uses french as a commun vehicle among their multi dialects ; and in this part of the pond we tend to learn 2 or 3 languages, I speak 3, german is the 3rd.
the last non the less, Israel has just asked to join the “francophonie club”, I won’t tell you the reason, you would find a bad escuse
if you don’t see french language doing any good to the kids your in charge, then why is it that the army has to replace you ?
so, if french doesn’t help you in your romance trips, I can’t help, and I don’t care
June 21st, 2007 at 10:50 pmTJ,
Hats off to you for being a teacher. You made two erroneous assumptions from my posts. First, I said most teachers are liberals. I did not say that all teachers are liberals. At the school in which I teach, all six teachers are liberals. My daughter attends public school and the vast majority of her teachers are liberals despite the fact we live in a very conservative area. When she comes home with liberal points she collected at school I make it known to her it is liberal and explain how conservatives view the same issues. I am not one who spews liberal ideology in class or at home. Certainly, I have a perspective and it leans left but I like my ideology served like my religion…passive.
Secondly, there was no victimization in my post. I simply said that very few rich people go into teaching. Why do you think that is? In comparison to what public school teachers make, I am underpaid but that is a statement of fact not a complaint. I could simply quit my job and teach in the public school. The impact I have where I teach is ten times as important as I would make in the public school so I work for less. Money has never been a motivator. I totally agree with your last two paragraphs.
But before you said all you did about positives you put out that I probably went into education because nothing else worked out. How presumptuous is that? Is that how you became a teacher? As for me, I wanted to be a teacher since the age of 17. I started college at 18, majored in Sec Ed, went into the Peace Corps, taught ESL and have been teaching at my current job for 16 years. I’m not sure what didn’t work out.
France the Retour,
I’m not saying French is not spoken in the world, I’m saying in order of importance French is down the list.
If you had a power graph of French power and influence it would be in significant decline since the end of WW I.
“If you don’t see French language doing any good to the kids your in charge, then why is it that the army has to replace you?”–I don’t understand this statement.
I took one year of French in high school and one year in college. It is a beautiful language. Besides the Catholics chasing my Huguenot relatives out of France centuries ago I don’t have anything against the French. However, the language becomes more irrelevant everyday, especially since many French speak English (but really don’t like to).
Steve,
If you think the election of Nicolas Sarkozy was a great win for conservatives you are sorely mistaken. He is just more conservative than most Frenchmen. That puts him way to the left of John Kerry. Sarkozy will have a tougher time getting anything done than Bush would with a hundred Kennedy’s in Congress. The one major positive with Sarkozy is he wishes to open better relations with the US. Salut!!!!!!
Kipp
June 22nd, 2007 at 12:01 pmkipp
If you had a power graph of French power and influence it would be in significant decline since the end of WW I.
ok, but how comes that what ever we think, say, do is still pointed as a major player, ah yes, I was told that is our UN voice ; anyway I was told too that your country don’t care of UN
sorry about your Huguenot genealogy, today you won’t have this worry
June 22nd, 2007 at 11:39 pmFrance,
French is still on US passports. It points to a earlier time in our history when France helped us shake English tyrany and even more important when French was the international language of diplomacy. Unfortunately for France, those days are long gone. It is true, France is one of the five permanent members of the UN but you have to ask yourself if France is one of the five most important nations today. If France is to became a world player again they must take up the mantle. France could have prevented Rwandan genocide (where America had failed), France could send in the Foreign Legion in Darfur. France could proclaim the need to stabilize Iraq is paramount and make a military statement there. I’m just not seeing global initiate by France. If you want to be a player you have to act like a player.
What part of France do you call home?
PS: My ancestors happily accept your apology
June 23rd, 2007 at 8:03 amKipp, I didn’t ment in geopolitical issues, I am just amazed that we are in your everyday papers ; it’s your medias which give us such an importance, rather in bad terms, till lately though.
As far as RWanda genocide, it’s complicated, so many factors were involved, any army there would not have been able to prevent that people would kill each others.
as far as Darfour, you seem not well informed, We are going to send troops there in the next few months, in addition we have our army in Chad since a long time now, and they are patrolling the Darfour borders either, but weren’t or aren’t allowed to get in till an Agreement was reached With UN and the differents innvolved belligerents.
I don’t see our new government willing to send troops in Irak ; anyway for what kind of utility ? its too late, and I am glad we were there at the beginning too.
but I heard that we could train some iraki police regiments
I am living in Poitiers
June 23rd, 2007 at 10:04 amglad we weren’t there, ment
June 23rd, 2007 at 11:10 amkipp,
if people are rich, they likely didnt get that why through teaching. but to be rich before choosing the professio I assume you mean the children of wealthy parents. if so, thats not necessarily so. You should say that most highly intelligent of gifted individuals dont go into teaching(bill gates comes to mind)You have to explain what you mean by rich more clearly though and what makes a person “rich”. and if they are rich, were you or are you “poor”. I had wealthy parents who raised 6 kids. I had no inheritance so after university i was poor and in debt like so many. education was my first thought in getting myself out of debt.
I fell into education after serving in the military. i thrive at it now because I put my mind to it. Intellect has little to do with teaching. Anyone who puts his mind to it can be educated or help educate. I present the facts but students learn because they want to . i help them want to be educated, i dont educate them really. Its their doing.
we give ourselves too much credit.
June 27th, 2007 at 3:33 am