Apparently, and I didn't know this, Carter planted the seeds for Al-Qaida.

[Fuzz]

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=264813385781653

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[MissWaverly]

1. Yep, that's why he rec'd the Nobel Peace Prize

[baldguy]

2. Reagan organized, originally funded, trained & armed it.

The database "al Qaida" refers to is the CIAs payroll schedule for the guys fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan.

[dave_p]

3. The record says what it says

Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's National Security Adviser, January 1998

Q: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs <"From the Shadows">, that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?

Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.

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Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic fundamentalism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists?

Brzezinski: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

[madrchsod]

4. here`s what it`s all about

"The Carter Doctrine was a policy proclaimed by President of the United States Jimmy Carter in his State of the Union Address on 23 January 1980, which stated that the United States would use military force if necessary to defend its national interests in the Persian Gulf region. The doctrine was a response to the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union"

"Carter's successor, President Ronald Reagan, extended the policy in October 1981 with what is sometimes called the "Reagan Corollary to the Carter Doctrine", which proclaimed that the United States would intervene to protect Saudi Arabia, whose security was threatened after the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War. Thus, while the Carter Doctrine warned away outside forces from the region, the Reagan Corollary pledged to secure internal stability. According to diplomat Howard Teicher, "with the enunciation of the Reagan Corollary, the policy ground work was laid for Operation Desert Storm." Some analysts have argued that the implementation of the Carter Doctrine and the Reagan Corollary also played a role in the outbreak of the 2003 Iraq War."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Doctrine
Carter Doctrine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Bitwit1234]

5. And the Conservative dictionary will blame the Iraq War on Clinton.

If we were around in 2090 we would see all the history books blaming President Clinton for the Iraq War, and they will probably say he invaded that neutral country.