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Presidential Alzheimer’s

When we get old, we get forgetful. Where are the keys. Has anyone seen my glasses?  What did I do with the hostages and U.S. foreign policy?  I know they were around here somewhere.

Jimmy Carter, whose appeasement of terrorists in Iran haunts us to this day, slams Blair, Bush on the Middle East. 

Why he did not just stay with his penance as a carpenter, but insists on calling attention to his utter failure as a leader, is a mystery. 

Topics: pols

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:15 am on Saturday, May 19, 2007

11 Responses to “Presidential Alzheimer’s”

1. RebeccaH Says:
   May 19th, 2007 at 10:54 am

   I think you called it.

2. corndog Says:
   May 19th, 2007 at 12:38 pm

   “Jimmy Carter, whose appeasement of terrorists in Iran haunts us to this day”

   It was Carter who sent the Marines into Iran to rescue the hostages. It was Reagan who gave Iran weapons in exchange for hostages in Lebanon.

3. RebeccaH Says:
   May 19th, 2007 at 8:22 pm

   It was cornhole who celebrated political failures as successes.

4. Dave Surls Says:
   May 20th, 2007 at 1:40 am

   Jimmy Carter giving lesons on foreign policy?

   That’s a hoot.

5. corndog Says:
   May 20th, 2007 at 11:05 am

   Hm, yes, speaking of failures, Becky:

   Little more than a year ago, Al Qaeda’s core command was thought to be in a financial crunch. But U.S. officials said cash shipped from Iraq has eased those troubles.

   “Iraq is a big moneymaker for them,” said a senior U.S. counter-terrorism official.

6. Dave Surls Says:
   May 21st, 2007 at 1:05 pm

   “We now have endorsed the concept of pre-emptive war where we go to war with another nation militarily, even though our own security is not directly threatened…”-Carter

   This is from a bonehead who belongs to the political party that brought you wars in Korea and Vietnam…and roughly 100,000 American war dead.

   Of course, neither the Vietnamese nor the Korean commies ever did anything against the United States, unlike Iraq, which among other things backed terrorists like Abu Nidal and Abu Abbas, terrorists who murdered American citizens in armed attacks (most people would regard the murder of our citizens as acts of war, and a definite threat to our security…but, not good ol’ Jimmy and the lefty “peaceniks”).

   Carter is a scumbag, and an idiot.

7. corndog Says:
   May 22nd, 2007 at 2:00 pm

   Sorry, Surly,

   The Abus were in Iraq with the agreement and consent of the U.S. They offered the US a deal - they’d get out of the terrorism business if they were allowed to retire in peace to Iraq. The US agreed. Thus, not a cause for war. Next!

8. Dave Surls Says:
   May 22nd, 2007 at 2:58 pm

   LOL. Sorry? You’re about the sorriest liar I’ve ever heard…and I’ve heard a lot of leftys hold forth.

   You know, pal, someday people like me are going to be running this country, and when that day dawns, people like you (lying propagandists for the enemy) are going to get the same thing Lord Haw Haw got.

   Remember where you heard it…traitor.

9. corndog Says:
   May 22nd, 2007 at 4:04 pm

   Thanks for the death threat, surly. Here are some facts I can get in five seconds. I’m not going to take much longer, but this refutes your position:

   1. Nidal

   Iraq’s chief of intelligence, Taher Jalil Habbush, held a press conference on August 21, 2002, at which he handed out photographs of Abu Nidal’s bloodied body, along with a medical report purportedly showing he had died after a single bullet had entered his mouth and exited his skull. Habbush said that Iraq’s internal security force had arrived at Abu Nidal’s house to arrest him on suspicion of conspiring with the Kuwaiti and Saudi governments to bring down Saddam Hussein. Saying he needed a change of clothes, Abu Nidal went into his bedroom and shot himself in the mouth, Habbush said. He died eight hours later in intensive care. [43] He is known to have been suffering from leukemia.

   Other sources disagree about the cause of death. Palestinian sources told journalists that Abu Nidal had in fact died of multiple gunshot wounds. Marie Colvin and Sonya Murad, writing in The Sunday Times, say that he was assassinated by a hit squad of 30 men from Office 8, the Iraqi Mukhabarat assassination unit. [17] Jane’s reported that Iraqi intelligence had been following him for several months and had found classified documents in his home about a U.S. attack on Iraq. When they arrived to raid his house on August 14 (not August 16, according to Jane’s), fighting broke out between Abu Nidal’s men and Iraqi intelligence. In the midst of this, Abu Nidal rushed into his bedroom and was killed, though Jane’s writes it remains unclear whether he killed himself or was killed by someone else. Jane’s sources insist that his body bore several gunshot wounds.

   Jane’s suggests that Saddam Hussein may have ordered him arrested and killed because he regarded Abu Nidal as a mercenary who would have acted against him in the event of an American invasion, if the money had been right.

   2. Abbas

   Abbas was said to have renounced terrorism after the 1992 Oslo accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. He was granted amnesty under an Oslo-related deal in 1996 and left Baghdad, where he had been living, to return to his home in the Gaza Strip. In 2000, apparently prompted by the Palestinian uprising, he returned to Baghdad.

10. Dave Surls Says:
    May 22nd, 2007 at 4:50 pm

    “Thanks for the death threat, surly.”

    No problem. Come the day, seeing traitors (people like you) who propagandize for our enemies thus providing them aid and comfort, tried and executed for treason will be its own reward.

11. corndog Says:
    May 22nd, 2007 at 5:46 pm

    Hope you see someone about your impotence problem.

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