Jimmy Carter Criticizes Secret CIA Prisons
Former President Jimmy Carter made an appearance on the Today Show on Wednesday to criticize the administration regarding the CIA secret prison story. The President who presided over the overthrow of the Shah in Iran and the subsequent hostage crisis, a man who is well regarded as the worst President in modern history actually had the nerve to criticize current administrations terror policies. He said it was barbaric that President Bush would allow our interrogators to use questionable means to acquire information that potentially may have already save American lives. What a tool.
I wasn't old enough to really appreciate what was happening at the time of the Iran hostage scandal so I asked my father about it. He said that throughout the crisis, Carter would make these televised appeals to Khomeni "Please let the hostages come home". He would whine on air to the point of tears. The way my father tells it the American people would collectively get nauseous every thing he came on the air. He was the ultra pansy. He was an embarrassment to America. The worst President in modern history. He was an over reaction to the bad taste left from the Nixon Presidency. The hostages were still in Iran when Reagan won the 1979 election. Within 48 hours of Ronald Reagan taking office the hostages were returned. Apparently Reagan called Khomeni and said that if the hostages were not returned immediately there would be no more Iran. The terrorists only respond to force. They use our desire for peace against us. They see our desire for diplomacy as our biggest weakness.
Is it any wonder the Carter is against the way we are treating the terrorists? He would probably prefer that we cried and begged them to please leave us alone.
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You hit the moron on the head with this one. It is so nice to see a fellow Jew with the same low opinion of Jimmuh Carter as I do.
I wish he would just go back to building houses. As a leader on the world stage, he is as worthless as balls on a sow pig.
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I do not agree with the comments about Jimmie Carter being weak when it came to the hostages. Reagan took way too much praise for this one. President Carter kept the hostages alive. In fact, this very day he has a full time organization that continues to bring respective authorities together to solve critical issues in America and around the world. Reagan said "I can't remember." Carter on the other hand "never forgot."
redhawk.
Comparing Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan is like comparing a turd to a diamond. Carter was and continues to be a weak person. His handling of the hostage situation was a black mark on his presidency.
Carter criticizes a couple of Bush’s policies. Buncha people who like Bush (for some, to me, unfathomable reason) talk about Carter sucking this way and that six ways to Sunday and gape at the very temerity of the man to criticize a single act or decision of someone like Bush, whom they appear to consider to be some sort of an anointed saint (wow). I could argue against all the feverish BS and looney comparisons I’m hearing about Carter (you’d be surprised, he wasn’t all bad: to my knowledge he never armed death squads in a foreign nation to help a militarily-installed dictatorship keep the populace from putting their own, Democratically-elected leaders in office, thereby keeping the flow of money going in the direction most appreciated by GE and Lockheed Martin – the way that “trickle-down” butthole Reagan did) for hours and we’d still be missing the point, which is, That’s Not The Point.
To respond to criticism of the current yahoo in office with the statement that the person doing the criticizing isn’t “qualified” in some way to do so is like saying that none of you bloggers are entitled to an opinion about Carter *or* Bush because none of you has ever been president of a nation. And it’s a convenient way to avoid the actual subject of discussion: the actual meaning of the words that were said.
What did Carter say? First, he mentioned that Martin Luther King’s and Coretta Scott King’s civil liberties were violated by Federal wiretapping. For some reason, at this point Bush gets all edgy and fidgety and starts to look crappy and shifty to the majority of the American public. Oh wait, it’s because he *wiretaps American citizens* at will, without warrants, and everybody knows it and knows it’s wrong, including him. Hmm, wiretapping me without a warrant? Yeah, I’ve got an opinion about that, and I’m qualified, just like Carter is, to speak that opinion, as a free United States citizen.
Let’s see, what else did Carter say? The other thing he said was that when you look at the color of the faces of those most devastated by Hurricane Katrina, it’s pretty obvious that the US has a long way to go where civil liberties and equal rights for all Americans are concerned. Well, jeez, looks like Carter is right on the button again. Seemed like there were a lot of people, a lot of black people, who felt that the remark was right in line for the venue, too. Oh, what am I saying, I’m sure if Martin Luther King were alive today, he and Bush would be best buddies and he’d totally understand what happened in the South. That’s Sarcasm with a capital “How Stupid Do You Think I Am?” for those didn’t catch it.
If, as a Bush supporter, a person doesn’t want to face what Carter said, I sure as hell don’t blame them. It’s pretty damning, and it’s probably best that you avoid discussion of the particulars if you don’t want to be seen as a really mean-spirited person or a sycophantic patsy. However, when you avoid the particulars in such a blatant, ineffectual way, you’re not fooling anyone. Bush is the one in office with the power and he’s the one committing this trash now. And that’s why we’re talking about what a cretin and what a reptile he is. If you don’t want to look a fool when you open your mouth, you should try carefully considering what you’re talking about before doing so. Beware, however, that this sort of thing can lead to a certain degree of introspection and critical consideration, and can sometimes lead to a change of opinion if you’re not careful.
And no, it’s not All Bush’s Fault, he’s just the latest willing tool in a line of creeps completely committed to making sure incredible amounts of money continue to be siphoned off the taxes we pay and given directly to the most ridiculously wealthy industrialists in the world in lieu of being used for things that actually benefit the majority of the people who live here, such as education, bridges, roads, sewers, public transportation, disaster relief, health and prenatal care, etc. Know what “prenatal care” is? That’s what one-fifth of all expectant mothers in the US do not receive – one reason why we have the highest infant mortality rate in the developed world, twice that of Japan. We live in a country where children die every day because of poverty and hunger. Kids starving to death, 2006, United States. That’s right!
Say you’re President of the United States of America and you’ve got a spare 7 billion dollars in the budget you can just do anything with. You could solve some pretty big problems with 7 billion dollars, right? I can think of a lot of good that could be done with that kind of money, especially when I consider all the issues I just mentioned. Well, if you want to see what Bush would do with this kind of money, check this out (if the link doesn’t work, it’s to article 5 of 32 in the February 14, 2006 online edition of the New York Times, titled U.S. Has Royalty Plan to Give Windfall to Oil Companies):
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/business/14oil.html?ex=1297573200&en=87dc413fa6add582&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Okey doke, I think I see where his head is at. What a dick!!
Excellent Post Tee Dub. Real good stuff. So your defending the man (Carter) who presided over the fall of the Shah, The Hostage Crisis, Oil Embargos, The worst economy since the depression, the Communist takeover Afghanistan, & currently takes every chance he gets to cozy up to the Islamofacist regimes. Jimmy Carter and his "peaceful" and weak demeanor is indirectly responsible I hope the rest of your loony leftist Democrats bet their money on that horse as well.
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