President Jimmy Carter - Statement on Iran Rescue Mission
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President Carter offers his condolences for the families of those who died in the attempted rescue of American hostages in Iran.
April 25th, 1980
I remember watching this speech early in the morning before going to school as a high school freshman. The last time a President of EITHER party showed the decency to own up and tell the truth to the American public without regard for political fate. President Carter, as you complete the final arc of your remarkable life, remember that in many ways, you were too good a man for many of us.
That's a pretty silly statement. It has happened since then. I think you're getting carried away with nostalgia.
@@ryantrent2114 Oh? Well then, name one.
@@shadrachstanleigh2285 I don't have to. You are too set in your ways to listen.
@@ryantrent2114 Translation: "I'm an ignoramus trying to seem tough hiding behind a keyboard."
@@shadrachstanleigh2285 You're worshipping Carter and going off about being tough? Now that's funny.
My dad remembers this day. He says that when those helicopters crashed, that was the end of Jimmy Carter's presidency. He was NOT getting reelected after that
I was 14 when this speech was made....I had already known Carter was NOT getting reelected for at least 18 months already. He had no vocal defenders or advocates among kids, parents, teachers.....anybody I knew, well before this fiasco. And I was living in NY, not Nebraska or Wyoming. I couldn't even believe he beat Ted Kennedy for renomination.
True. But the fact that Bush, Casey, and that drunk John Connally had the corrupt Mullahs hold them back until January certainly didn't help either.
He owned the decisions and the responsibility -- there are many kinds of valor.
Regardless of how this mission turned out, we have to thank the members of the military for their bravery and in too many cases, the ultimate price, they paid for trying to free their fellow American citizens, from captivity. Thanks also to President Carter for having the character to admit and take responsibiltiy for the mission's eventual demise. Carter decided to be a good man before being a good president.
Thank you remembering this fact...many people paid a dear price for this operations - some families never recovered from it - some men died a slow death after this - while others were promoted - for no good reason other than they lied and covered up what really happened...did you know Colonel Oliver North was in charge of the Helicopter squadron for instance?
America still paying for letting Shah of Iran down Cater was the Dumbest US president ever..
I remember this very day. Not only was it a crushing, humiliating defeat for our country, but it also ended any hopes of Jimmy Carter being reelected.
Bottom line: he wrecked any chance of it being successful. Til this day, 42 years on, it still hurts.
Carter definitely made mistakes, but I think people forget just how difficult this entire situation was, and how difficult those times were. I don't know of any President who this would have been an easy situation for. Carter, Reagan, Ford, Bush, Clinton, etc.
I remember waking up and seeing this on tv. I was scared shitless because my older brother had just joined the navy. I was sure, at the time, that a war was going to break out.
@gaguy1967 But Carter was successful in getting them freed after he negotiated with Iran. Carter got the hostages free, not Reagan.
That's not correct - The hostages were freed because Bush made a deal with the ayatoolah for weapons and spare parts to F-4 phantoms - when we fiucked them out of the stinger missiles - they retaliated and blew up GANDER - the largest loss of Specil Ops guys in history - that no one remembers - or cares about because it happened in Gander Newfoundloundand and they coveres it u - and Oliver North was the guy who was repsonsible for that. - as well as Eagle claw...
THe ayatolah was waiting for the inaguration of Reagan, and as soon as he saw reagan in as president - then he let the hostages go - and not a second before that - look it up - carter had nothing to do with it - it was a secret deal that Bush made - bush made a interantional tready deal behind the presidents back and without consent of congress - they are traitors.
As iranian i deeply understand and respect mr carter on how he tells his people that this act was not a point of hositlity towards iran and iranian attority or the people but to simply take there people but u.s must also relize there crimes they committed toward iran and have brain washed there people the opposite.
A great man a he was not implicated for anything by the media, a very green president and always removing himself from conflicts and still holds a massive influence, I am inspired by him.
Yeah. You're about the only one inspired by him.
Great history. This was a humiliating event for the United States. I was a young private in the Army in those days. I don't fault Carter, he did the best he could, I think the hostage crisis would have been difficult for any President.
Totally agree with you. He stood by his bad decision and the fiasco it became. He took ownership for his wrong.
actually the return of the hostages was achieved by Carter. only iranians delayed it until reagan took office to make a point. Carter was a great president dealing with a lot of crap both political and economic.
yep, didnt try to hide behind a video or spin it for election day, never liked carter back then but my respect for him now grows daily
He is a good man but he was in over his head with this crisis that lasted for over a year
He is a big lier, this ugly man distoried The shah Who want not sail oil cheep, and Carter support khomeni and Islamists, May he burn in hell If exist hell..
Yes he is and was a "good man". He simply was a very incompetent President and Commander In Chief. He did accept responsibility, which one must give him credit for, unlike our current President who seems to always place blame on someone else.
Warren Smith the most decent president but was
Unlucky to be there in the
Worst 4 years since the
End of ww11. The economy
Was a mess, gas shortages
Americas moral was low
From what happened in
Vietnam. Then being
Blackmailed by Islamic
Extremists in Iran.
Despite what Carter said, the mission had no real chance of success. Had the DF made it to the embassy compound then a massacre would have ensued, ending with the deaths of the hostages, the US servicemen and dozens of Iranians. The Special Forces simply did not have the capability to effect a successful rescue at that time and continues to be afflicted, as demonstrated by their attempt to free an Irish nurse captured in Afghanistan recently, which ended with her death. She was killed by a SEAL team hand grenade.
"I am from the government and I am here to help". OHHH nooooo.
The mission was a success, but unfortunately the hostage died.
a true great leader is to accept the responsibilities of the decisions he make. he doesn't blame others. when reagan got busted for iran contra, all of a sudden he got alzhiemers which means he does not have control of the people below him or trump saying i dont take responsibilities.
I doubt Reagan had Alzheimer’s when he was president
Carter was in a no-win situation....something had to be done.....we tried but failed unfortunately.
It reminds me of when Kennedy went before a press gathering and said it was ALL his fault;no one elses.
My Father was in Delta Force, he was one of Colonel Beckwiths guys - as Beckwith was the CO of the base where my father did his basic training. Beckwith was stationed at Fort Dix in 1974 and my dad did his basic there too - later when beckwith formed Delat Force, - Operation Blue Light came first - then Delta - in november 1977 - later my father trained for this mission, - long story short - from what I can gather from father, - althrough my father would never admit it - to himself - the mission was desienged to fail from the start - it had multiple failure event planning basically built into the mission, It was meant to fail from the strart. The "decision," to Abort was made BEFORE the mission - it was AGREED BY ALL - including the president and the JCS - that the mission would be ABORTED when and IF, they were down to 5 of the 8 helicopters they agreed to abort....so when they all got to the desert one landing spot, they were already at 5 helicopters, and HAD already agreed in the mission planning to abort if they had only 5 or less helicopters...its just that Carter is an incredibly honest and honorable man - who did what any great leader would do - which is to fall on his sword, and take the blame - for the decision and actions of others....when the truth comes out - as it always does, the americah people will see Reagan and Bush and Carter in very different lights...moreover, its not even really clear that the 93 men could have actually accomplished the mission, since they were dropped so far from the place where they were to rescue the hostages that the likelhood of them being detected before they were able to storm the embassy - was basically zero. Also - and this is a fact that no one outside of the mission knows, is that they did not have the proper sand filtration on the helicopters to successfully fly 250 miles across the desert with no visual aids to navigation!!! Their training was done at a secret site, on the west coast, and it was only 20 miles wide, and they flew from one end of the this place to the other and back and were never able to get all 8 helicopters to and from the landing spot 20 miles up and back - without serious mechanical failures - due to ingestion of sand into the turbines....this was also an issue in 1st gulf war, where they still had not fully developed a sand filtration systems for heavy desert use....so my father told me - that was really the main reason he refused to go on the mission - at the last minute, he protested to Beckwith about the filters, I think he had hoped that his protest - or refusal to go would have swayed beckwith to at least postpone or put off th emission until they could get the sand filters worked out - but larger - much larger forcs were at work, and I dont think that any of them realized it - until it was too late....
This guy had a real fire in his belly and strive for peace.
And yet he left the world is much worse shape in 1980 than it was in 1976.
Carter may have authorized the rescue attempt.
However, the Military is the one to be blamed for the deaths of our valiant soldiers.
They were the ones that told Carter they could do it so he went off of what he was told.
It was not Carter's fault that they did not communicate and flew thru the sandstorm. it was not his fault there was a mechanical failure.
It is not his fault the military did not make continegency plans for adverse weather that they should have foressen.
so are you for making this statement.
Wow .... Compare this with Biden. Jimmy was a good "ex president"
The best EX- President!
However Reagan did not see what Carter was doing and destroyed what was necessary, that is energy, therefore Reagan was not a good president.
Now there's a REAL leader. Willing to admit a mistake and take full responsibility for an action taken to free our hostages is admirable. George W. Bush WOULD NEVER make a speech like this. It's striking that many believe GWB is a hero and uniformed people like socttgodfather will throw insults at a genuine leader like Carter. I'll bet that scottgodfather has no idea that Carter graduated at the top of his class at West Point while Bush snorted coke & drank in Alabama while in the nat'l guard.
Read about the Iranian situation. IT WAS Carter's fault. He undercut the Shah and actually precipitate the fall of the Shah.
gaguy1967 are you high?
Relations with the USSR was WORSE in 1980 than they were in 1977.
For those of you Republicans who came here to ridicule President Carter for the failure of this mission, let me point out that Ronald Reagan lost TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY ONE marines in Beirut, Lebanon in October of 1983.
I support and will obey Jimmy Carter forever!
the hostage crisis would have been difficult even if Ronald Reagan was President during that crisis
This guy did what Iran is today.
It doesn’t seem to me that all the subsequent Presidents have done any better job than President Carter in dealing with Iran. They all have found Iran too hard a nut to crack.
I like Carter. He was undone by domestic inflation and foreign policy events. He showed great restraint and dignity though, seems like a very decent man.
“The responsibility was fully my own.” Think we’ll ever hear Trump say that?
Trump tried to rescue Iranian hostages?
"I don't take responsibility at all." lol he said that in March about the Coronavirus pandemic, it's exactly the opposite.
The virus came from China
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"The hostages were taken in Iran. It's all Irans fault, everyone blaming me for the helicopter crash are losers and it's all fake news!"
- Trump in alternative reality 1980
China released a biological weapon.
@jayNicks10 LOL.....While Reagan didnt negotiate, the Iranians didnt want to hold the hostages once he became President
Americans have short memories
You’ll notice when Ronald Reagan got in the Iranians let those hostages go real quick.
This is misleading, even though Carter lost reelection, he kept negotiations going with Iran up until his last day in office, and in January 19 1981 , which was his last full day as president, his administration and the Iranian government signed the Algiers Accords, which then let Iran free the hostages.
AN HONEST MAN WOW
1978 was such a tight year.
A little historical context for everyone. When the embassy was seized, a large scale military operation(ie invasion) was out of the question because the end result would have been the Soviets invading across Iran's northern border which very likely could have touched off WW3. Carter's mistake was bowing to tremendous political pressure and letting the Shah in for cancer treatments. THAT outraged the Iranians and touched off the crisis.
Keep in mind that ALL of the hostages came home alive.
Who gives a fuck about A. The Shah or B. a bunch of stupid fanatics?
it was only a “bad decision” because of the accident which he had no control over. like a coach calling a pass play and the QB throws an interception. is that the coach’s fault?
Carter was a disasterous president
The Iranians were clearly out of line. The government continually denied any responsibility or knowledge of the hostages.
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YES Jimmy Carter freed them NOT Ronald Wilson Regan . Iran would NOT even talk to Regan even after he was president . Iran thought of Regan as an actor / joke . Carter had to go to I ran and talk even though he was no longer president but you all give Regan the credit .
Iran waited for him to leave office then let the hostages go
And then reagan got credit
Thing is either Carter was misinformed or lied because an Iranian Gas Truck was exploded while traveling on the highway near the landing site... The man driving the truck was injured though not severe.
Which weapons? Iraqi weapons in the 1991 war? Those were mostly French and Soviet. What the US gave Iran during Iran contra were spare parts for their old American weapons from the 1970s. Not new weapons. Yes, Carter gave us Iran today which is why he is the US worst President.
he says it caused no iranian casualties. What about the fuel truck passenger they killed at the landing site? Didnt he know about it?
The failure of the mission may have been a blessing in disguise. The mission seemed to complex and subject to failure.
A mission like that needs one leader only. They didn't have that. Too many chiming in.
@rsharif well just to tell you jimmy carter was a very smart person and maybe even too smart. he wanted to make shure that by looking at all the details too see the exactly the right answer. it took to much time for him to find to details and make the exact right choice that he wanted. hes not a bad person, hes just to carful.
Carter believed that, despite the rescue mission turning into a complete disaster, the American people would give him credit for trying. To say he was wrong is a drastic understatement. In retrospect, it is clear that the rescue mission's failure ended whatever small chance Carter had to be re-elected. The New Republic Magazine called it the "Jimmy Carter Desert Classic" since it accurately summed-up his actions as President: a well-intentioned effort, that has not been well thought-out, is set in motion; it turns into a complete disaster; and the situation is now worse than it was before he became involved.
True Carter was terrible, but this decision was the one thing I respected him for, and so did Col. Charlie Beckwith, founder of Delta Force.
Your anger betrays your age and your argument, which was lost long ago
The best president we ever had!
I sincerely hope you're saracastic
Nigel Hornbean A giant of the Human Rights, a good man.
Monty Burns You ares the one who needs to look in the mirror I'm guessing your blind sided republican because of your religion
Yes, a great president! Weak in foreign affairs, incompetent in economic policy, and an anti-Semite to boot. It doesn't get better than that
He seemed a decent honest person who struggled with huge domestic problems and foreign policy events beyond his control.
This did not make Ted Kennedy the victor in their feud at all.
I completely agree sir
Carter wasnt successful, that is why he lost in 1980.
Watching this speech trying to get a handle on your speech and mannerism. I'm slated to play a photo double of you in a movie. I'm hoping I'm convincing enough to be able to get the main role of Jimmy Carter himself.
Jimmy knew op would flop but he didn’t stop
@Enslaved10 The Shah was a great man and left the country in order to protect his people, the other countries were jelous of our amazing country and caused all the problems, don't say he ran away when he was PROTECTING his country.
I don't completely blame carter, he was in a tough situation but he could have made a better decision.
lets see your military resume.
Watching this after seeing Trump throw the military under the bus after the death of a Navy SEAL in Yemen. Wanted to see how a real President would respond in a similar situation.
Carter sent these guys on a suicide mission that several pilots and operators knew would fail as a last ditch effort to get re-elected.
@jayNicks10 LOL..the Iranians released the hostages when THEY felt like it
Added to the perception that Carter was weak.
Carter’s a damn colossus compared to the Potato we have in the White House in 2022. The Potato never claims responsibility for ANY of his non stop mistakes.
He wasn't told the truth to what really happened !
Watch my documentary next Friday.
Carter has become a bitter old man. Instead of enhancing his reputation as statesman, he is now a joke & embarrasment. He should go back to lusting after women - like Tiger
ummmmm Jimmy Carter isn't a bitter old man. Where did you get that idea?
I'm sorry, can you repeat that?
However I am not supporting Carter, I am just saying he was a better President, due to Reagan's blunder to fund his military rather than his country that's what is highlighted by Reagan, and I am not aiming this personally at you so I would like you to apologise for that last comment, it is how you approach things and mine is clearly different to yours
Reagan was a fool end of, Carter was better than the 3 Republic candidates, Nixon went to war, committed the Watergate scandal, Ford did nothing, and Reagan was obviously controlled by his CIA and warmongering attitude, I am afraid you have lost this debate sir, Reagan in the end messed up what Carter had to offer and therefore, messed up his administration.
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@jubinliam
Yeah, keep telling yourself that!!!
Carter took full responsibility,Trump blames the failure of his first mission on the troops.
This op would have been bigger than Neptune Spear, and 30 years earlier.
Yes, but sticking to the topic of money, that would be more expensive taking them down, which was what Reagan did
It is still relevant on the topic of war so I haven't, If Reagan had sense he would have stopped mobilising over a pointless cause, also the fact that Carter had not been run by the CIA, that'
s where he would have saved money, not by being a warmongering President
Say what you want about this man, but give him credit for taking full responsibility for the failure of this mission. Trump wouldn’t have the guts and decency to take any blame.
He should have ordered Eagle Claw on day one and it should have been rehearsed a hundred times with triple checked helicopters used.
goddamned devil Carter, red devil!
Was that dumber than invading a country involved in a civil war?
Study the history of British Petroleum. The entire relationship between Iran and the west began with the company Anglo-Persian and the way Persia was cheated from their royalty agreements. Thus begat a series of governments nationalizing oil and foreign powers overthrowing their governments.
No what caused the inflation was the Yom Kippur War which Carter supported Israel, without a military presence, and got embargoed by the Arabian League, and Reagan also spent crazily on military, because he was so hooked up with the arms race and the USSR, which by that time was running out of time anyway, so he devoted it to a pointless cause, also another fact being Reagan again was being effectively run by Bush Snr and the CIA, therefore more inclined to go to war, with people like Saddam.
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@jubinliam
Whatever you say buddy! :) You can argue with this all you want! All I have to say to you is "OBAMA IS NOT AND WILL NEVER BE MY PRESIDENT! :) This comes to you from a Proud, Hispanic Republican supporter! :)
Good day!! :)
or that the gentleman said
You've got to get off your bike and read some history. Your opinions are not backed by knowledge.
@tkodawg1 Hey Guy....You forgot one-Bush=FAIL
I have a very clear and I said I was not born in the 80's but studied it very well I have a 10000 word dissertation, in which I visited America, in fact Georgia and all of the people that I saw that is in their 40's and they all agreed Carter was a good president, and Reagan was regarded as a lesser President, and no way near s good, Carter never fired a shot as well, as I recall from my studies he never actually went to war and killed people.
is he mispronouncing IRAN? he says it I-RAN...? I thought it was ERRAN...The I was more silent
EERRRAN
IIIRAN
?
Full of lie!
@jnichols3 You heard me.
@jayNicks10 WHAT!
sorry for your ignorance.
10x better than Reagan and Thatcher put together.
As usual for Jimmuh he just babbled the same platitudes over and over...
You was not good president of United state😡
I thought Bush Jr was the worst?
President Ronald Reagan he was best of the best good bless he’s soul he’s really was an Angel 😘
Ronald Reagan became a puppet in office under Dan Regan a banker.
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