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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: fresc who wrote (41429)	4/11/2005 12:09:08 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Carter was not to blame for sky-high interest rates or the fall of the Shah. When Carter came into office the Shah had already been undermined. What would you have had him do differently, invade Iran? Maybe in retrospect that sounds like a good idea, but remember at the time we had recently withdrawn from Vietnam, had Watergate, wanted peace for awhile and had tremendous Vietnam War debts to start paying off. We still haven't paid them off. Vietnam was to blame for the interest rates. That was Nixon and Johnson's fault. Escalating Vietnam into a full-blown war was a terrible idea and extremely dishonest. Even people like Jane Fonda cannot be blamed because the war itself was so outrageously wrong.