I was surprised to learn that Jimmy Carter appointed Volcker as Fed Chairman to replace somebody he had to get rid of or who had resigned.
I didn't remember that at all.
Former President Jimmy Carter has been linked with a key figure in the U.N.'s oil-for-food scandal by the group leading the nationwide effort to evict the United Nations from American soil and halt U.S. funding of the U.N.
Howard Kaloogian and Co. are calling for this...
Move America Forward today will call upon Carter to provide a full accounting of his meetings and conversations with Samir Vincent, who yesterday pleaded guilty to participating in numerous illegal activities as part of the U.N. scandal.
"President Carter needs to tell the American people exactly what relationships he had with the individuals involved in the oil-for-food scandal," said Melanie Morgan, co-chairman of Move America Forward.
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"[Carter's son Chip] and his associates have been particularly vicious in their criticisms of President Bush and his Iraq policy, say Move America Forward officials. According to the Ghana News Agency, Chip Carter said President Bush was "bringing back the ugly politics where other people see America as the enemy."
Um, I think the terrorists have already made it clear America is the enemy.
Chip Carter added, "there has to be a regime change" not in Iraq – but in America so as to bring an end the Bush administration.
Obviously the majority of his fellow Americans don't agree with the young Carter on this...
Carter went on to note that it was the United Nations that was best able to handle the Iraqi question, and not the United States.
Wonder what his basis is for this...
The Carter Center website features op-eds in which Carter criticizes the Bush administration's decision to use military force in Iraq as well as an interview by Carter and his wife in which he claimed military action against Iraq would be a "tragic mistake." Carter argued in a 2002 interview that the situation should be dealt with by the United Nations Security Council through the issuance of new U.N. Resolutions or the enforcement of existing resolutions.
Been there. Done that.
"Obviously Jimmy Carter didn't understand that it was the United Nations resolutions that authorized the use of force, which is why coalition forces took military action against Iraq. Saddam Hussein was not abiding by the U.N.'s resolutions for 12 years, yet Jimmy Carter pretends not to be aware of this fact," said Morgan.
Jimmy Carter and roughly half the population of the United States.
More bloggy thoughts on this...
Random Jottings: Just breaking this morning...
Ravenwood's Universe: What did he know, and when did he know it?
Weapons of Mass Discussion: Carter Connection to Oil-for-Food?
Slings and Arrows: Americans and the Oil-for-Food Scandal
And for more than you ever cared to know about the oil-for-food scandal, visit Friends of Saddam for all of the sordid details on this...
IIRC, Genius Volcker presided over like an 18.00% prime rate or something equally ridiculous.