This wacko was our President?!?

I couldn't believe my eyes when I read the transcript of yesterday's Hardball with Chris Matthews. Jimmy Carter has got to be nuts. Either that, or he's delusional, becoming more senile every day:

MATTHEWS: Let me ask you the question about—this is going to cause some trouble with people—but as an historian now and studying the Revolutionary War as it was fought out in the South in those last years of the War, insurgency against a powerful British force, do you see any parallels between the fighting that we did on our side and the fighting that is going on in Iraq today?

CARTER: Well, one parallel is that the Revolutionary War, more than any other war up until recently, has been the most bloody war we‘ve fought. I think another parallel is that in some ways the Revolutionary War could have been avoided. It was an unnecessary war.

Had the British Parliament been a little more sensitive to the colonial‘s really legitimate complaints and requests the war could have been avoided completely, and of course now we would have been a free country now as is Canada and India and Australia, having gotten our independence in a nonviolent way.

I think in many ways the British were very misled in going to war against America and in trying to enforce their will on people who were quite different from them at the time.

AUUUUUGH! The Revolutionary war was an UNNECESSARY WAR?! This is a former US PRESIDENT that's saying this! So, no Declaration of Independence?! No revolutionary document called the US Constitution?! The past 228 years be damned? Newsflash, buck-o: If it wasn't for the United States having the revolutionary war, then Canada, India, and Australia would probably still be under British rule!

Carter says the Revolutionary War was our bloodiest in history. Take a look here. Chris Matthews called Carter a historian. There are 7 other wars in our history that have taken more lives.

I don't know what kind of company former Pres. Carter is keeping these days, but I think he should stick to building houses and eating peanuts. This guy is crazy.