Next President Will Inherit A Disaster

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Here's an amusing piece of conflicting analogies and other misinformation written by Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune comparing Bush to Carter.

Carter and Bush not so different Excerpt:
Carter, as an ex-president, helped negotiate a nuclear deal with North Korea that the other side failed to live up to. Bush negotiated a nuclear deal with North Korea that the other side has failed to live up to.

Huh? Bush negotiated with North Korea? When? Not only that but Bush was solely responsible for tearing down the 1994 Framework deal with N.Korea Jimmy Carter brokered. Bush did this in his first two months in office. No comparison.

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Carter was responsible for a military debacle, the 1980 effort to rescue our Iran hostages, that killed eight American service personnel. Bush is responsible for a military debacle, the occupation of Iraq, that has killed more than 3,400 American service personnel.

You seriously think 3,400 is similar to 8? Sure if you’re the Bush administration, to them it’s just a number.

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Under Carter, Islamic insurgents in Afghanistan bled the Soviet military. Under Bush, Islamic insurgents in Afghanistan bleed the U.S. military.

Back then, the Soviet Union was not necessarily our friend, at least from the stories told by the U.S. media. Back then, those Islamic insurgents were referred to as “freedom fighters” whom we(America) armed to help bleed the Soviet's military. Those “freedom fighters” were our friends until they slammed airplanes into our buildings, then they became terrorists and insurgents. But under Bush, it’s our army being bled – big, big difference.

Jimmy Carter inherited a world of hurt created during the eight years of the Nixon Administration, arguably the second worst administration of all time. The only similarity I see now with Carter and Bush today is actually with the next president who will inherit a world of hurt created during the eight years of the worst administration of all time.