How would Jimmy Carter have handled Iraq?

Question

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some great answers so far from my American bros and sis

Where in my question did I say Iraq is related to 9/11? you libs are unbelievable

Answer 1

Carter is a WWII Vet. I would not underestimate his ability to command in a time of war. He's got integrity and it's doubtful he would have lied to the American people.

To use someone's mistakes as a barometer of what they'd do in the future means George W. should not have gotten elected the 2nd term since his lies KEPT him in the White House. Jimmy Carter admitted he's got regrets on how he handled Iran captors. I trust he'd do better than we've got going on.

Answer 2

Assuming you mean this in the perspective of 9/11, I believe that Carter would have focused on the perpetrators of 9/11. He would have probably worked through the UN to capture the terrorists and insisted that the World would play the pivotal role of overseeing the judicial process of trial and sentencing the terrorists to death. In the end, he would have insured that justice was truly served for 9/11 and quite possibly Iraq would have helped in that cause because he probably wouldn't have played a part in Saddam's rise to power.

There would not have been any 'handling' of Iraq because Iraq was not involved in the attacks against us. I've noticed that everyone who brings up the hostages in Iran fails to mention that when Carter 'stayed the course', people lived. Every one of those hostages came back home ALIVE!


Sorry, when I said 'World' above, I meant the 'World Court'. The same World Court that Bush withdrew us from shortly before the invasion of Iraq.

Answer 3

You might want to go back and re-read what the former President actually said, he said SOME, SOME of what is being said against Obama is race motivated. From comments and statements made over the last couple of years Mr. Carter is correct. Kanye West should have been bashed by anyone with common sense and manners. It was insulting what he pulled.

Answer 4

Jimmy Carter would not have invaded Irag, There was no reason too They were not involved in the 9/11 attack. They had no weapons of mass destruction. And we needed them to keep Iran from spreading their influence to the rest of the middle east.
Even Bush SR. knew that, that's why he stopped the 1st Gulf war when he did. I have never heard him in public support his sons decisions in Iraq.

Answer 5

First of all, what "problem" in Iraq are we talking about here? The reason we are currently in Iraq has nothing to do with Jimmy Carter. It has to do with the Bush administration. Period. Jimmy Carter would not be linked to Iraq like GW felt he needed to be. Jimmy Carter is a man that more people should emulate. There really is no way of knowing what Jimmy Carter would have done, because there really weren't issues that the United States should have dealt with, alone, in Iraq - save for peace talks and just generally trying to calm Saddam Hussein down. But again - not America's job, alone.
For those of you implying that our invasion of Iraq is directly tied to 9/11 ... it is not!

Answer 6

If Jimmie Carter was in the White House (T.G. was not the case) it wouldn’t be a war in Iraq. Jimmie would’ve given the keys to the White House to Saddam and run as fast as he could from D.C. to Georgia and then hide in a peanut plantation with the hope that someone like Bush would come to his soiled pants rescue

Answer 7

Jimmy Carter is an honorable man - unfortunately, it is to the point of being too idealistic and unrealistic.
I feel confident that he would have felt that the terrorists could be handled with diplomacy - and that would have been a tragic error in judgment.
In order for negotiations and compromise to succeed - we need reasonable people on both sides of the table. Indiscriminately slaughtering thousands of innocent people to try and further an ideology of hatred and domination isn't exactly the hall mark of reasonable people.

Answer 8

Kuwait would be a province of Iraq and Uday and Qusay would still be rich international playboys.

Answer 9

He would do the same thing he did in his time to handle terrorism. Nothing. Give them courage is more likely what he would do. Nothing, just let them do whatever they want. I think Bill Clinton looked to Carter for advice during the several assaults against the US that took place while Clinton was busy doing nothing of great importance.
He would have let Saddam have Kuwait and then we could have let Saddam grab another country after Kuwait or better yet, hold the world by the gas pump and squeeze the life out of everybody. It would have been neat.

Answer 10

Threatened Saddam over and over again to allow UN Weapon inspectors in. Whined and complained to the UN that the UN has not stopped him. Tried to have talks with Saddam.

No action and a lot of talk. Just like Iran