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Carter's Trail of Disaster ... NOT Bush's Fault!(May 13, 2002 Newsmax article by Christopher Ruddy)
Newsmax ^ | 5/13/02 | Christopher Ruddy

Posted on 02/12/2006 8:23:04 AM PST by Jo Nuvark

Jimmy Carter is off this week to save Cuba. With Carter on the loose, the American public needs to watch out. It seems that almost wherever he goes and whatever positions he pushes, Jimmy Carter leaves a wake of devastation and disaster. Carter, we should note, has been cozying up to North Korea for years. He helped the U.S. and the communist country come to agreement during the Clinton years to defuse a tense situation over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

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Under the wacko deal Carter arranged, the U.S. would stop complaining about Korea's nuclear weapons program as long as the U.S. gave aid to North Korea and helped the communists build more modern nuclear reactors. The U.S. was well on the path to doing this when the new Bush administration sounded the alarm and immediately stopped the cockamamy plan dead in its tracks. North Korea was not cooperating with the U.S. to stop its weapons program, but we should continue helping them to build nuclear reactors. Make sense? Of course not. But that's Jimmy Carter for you. It's also Jimmy Carter the hypocrite. Carter has always claimed to be the champion of human rights worldwide. Yet North Korea is one of the most, if not the most, repressive regimes on the planet. The Stalinist nation is headed by a young madman named Kim Jong-il. Kim likes to watch American movies like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and then act out his fantasies on his own citizenry. Millions of North Koreans are starving at any given time. Does Carter have much to say about this? Of course not. North Korea is an enemy of the U.S., so Carter goes easy on them. When he met Kim, Carter didn't criticize him – he kissed him! But there is nothing new here. The media would have us forget Jimmy Carter's presidential record. But I won't. Remember Carter's human rights program, where he demanded the Shah of Iran step down and turn over power to the Ayatollah Khomeini? No matter that Khomeini was a madman. Carter had the U.S. Pentagon tell the Shah's top military commanders – about 150 of them – to acquiesce to the Ayatollah and not fight him. The Shah's military listened to Carter. All of them were murdered in one of the Ayatollah's first acts. By allowing the Shah to fall, Carter created one of the most militant anti-American dictatorships ever. Soon the new Iranian government was ransacking our embassy and held hostage its staff for over a year. Only President Reagan's election gave Iran the impetus to release the hostages. I believe Carter's decision to have the Shah fall is arguably the most egregious U.S. foreign policy mistake of the last 50 years. [Former President Bush's decision to allow Saddam Hussein to stay in power is a close second.] With the Shah gone, the whole region was destabilized. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan; no doubt a direct link to the rise of the Taliban can be traced to this invasion. Iraq also took advantage of the Shah's departure to invade Iran. A long war followed that helped make Saddam's Iraq a great Middle Eastern power. And decades after Carter's ignominious act, Iran is still bent on destroying America. President Bush named it one of the three nations in the "axis of evil." Iran is developing both nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver these weapons to its enemies. We can thank Jimmy Carter for all of this. Since Carter left the presidency, he has had little to say about the human rights abuses in Iran. Why should he? Iran opposes the U.S. Instead, he has focused his attention on Israel, America's lone democratic ally in the Mideast. Recently, Carter suggested that the U.S. should cut off aid to Israel, so angry was he after Israel sought to defend itself in the wake of suicide bombings. Fair enough. But what has Carter said about Arab or Muslim countries that have had long records of human rights abuse – Syria or Libya or Iran or Iraq? Not much. One reason may be money. As NewsMax's Dave Eberhart reported recently, Carter and his Carter Center foundation are recipients of millions of dollars of Arab money. (See: Carter's Arab Funding May Color Israel Stance.) So I give Carter his due. At least he is not a hypocrite in one sense. He is good to the dictators and butchers who give him money. A product that might interest you: Have an Opinion About This? Send an URGENT PriorityGram Today Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics: Middle East Saddam Hussein/Iraq
1 posted on 02/12/2006 8:23:07 AM PST by Jo Nuvark
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To: Jo Nuvark

I've said it before: The Democrats never met a dictator they didn't like.


2 posted on 02/12/2006 8:30:29 AM PST by Peach (Islam is an army disguised as a religion (Freeper Hoosier-Daddy))
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To: Jo Nuvark

I can say this as absolute truth- the only times in my life I have been unwillingly hungry and cold were when Jimmy Carter was president. Hyperinflation and fuel bills ate up Mom's meager paycheck, and more than once I went to bed hungry in a cold, dark room.
Could someone please post what the "Misery Index" (inflation rate plus the unemployment rate) was under Carter, and compare that to today?


3 posted on 02/12/2006 8:30:31 AM PST by Ostlandr ( Hey! Where'd my tagline go?)
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To: Jo Nuvark

somebody should have made sure the critter had fins years ago

4 posted on 02/12/2006 8:34:51 AM PST by Doogle (USAF...8thAF...4077th TFW...408th MMS...Ubon Thailand..."69"..Night Line Delivery,AMMO)
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To: Jo Nuvark

http://rescueattempt.tripod.com/id24.html


5 posted on 02/12/2006 8:40:45 AM PST by RaceBannon ((Prov 28:1 KJV) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.)
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To: Ostlandr
The misery index had to be in the mid to upper 'teens. Interest rates peaked at over 20%, thus shutting off investment and job creation. Top marginal tax rates were, I believe, in the 70% range. Oil shocks too. Carter told us that America's best days were over and that we should accept a lower standard of living.

Should anyone wonder how the economy might change if we revert back to a long established rat controlled Congress and a communist President, look no further back than the 1970s.
6 posted on 02/12/2006 8:52:18 AM PST by Jacquerie (Democrats soil institutions)
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To: Peach

How do we shut the guy up? I am so angry with him about
the Corretta King funeral. The arrogance. He is absolute
unequivocal proof that liberlism is a mental illness.


7 posted on 02/12/2006 8:53:02 AM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Jo Nuvark

ping for later


8 posted on 02/12/2006 8:53:03 AM PST by TNdandelion
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To: Peach

Nor have they ever met a decent and competent leader that they DID like.


9 posted on 02/12/2006 8:53:37 AM PST by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: Jo Nuvark; xsmommy

He's long overdue for the dirt nap.


10 posted on 02/12/2006 8:53:45 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: Ostlandr

You are bringing back memories. Reagan won by exploiting Carter's misery index. The gas lines were horrible and it was frightening to watch the hostage crisis on TV. Carter was a horrible President. I have no doubts he bought his Nobel Peace prize. What a joke that is.


11 posted on 02/12/2006 8:56:21 AM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Jo Nuvark
Formatting, please ...


Jimmy Carter’s Trail of Disaster
Christopher Ruddy
Monday, May 13, 2002

Jimmy Carter is off this week to save Cuba.

With Carter on the loose, the American public needs to watch out.

It seems that almost wherever he goes and whatever positions he pushes, Jimmy Carter leaves a wake of devastation and disaster.

Carter, we should note, has been cozying up to North Korea for years. He helped the U.S. and the communist country come to agreement during the Clinton years to defuse a tense situation over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

Under the wacko deal Carter arranged, the U.S. would stop complaining about Korea's nuclear weapons program as long as the U.S. gave aid to North Korea and helped the communists build more modern nuclear reactors.

The U.S. was well on the path to doing this when the new Bush administration sounded the alarm and immediately stopped the cockamamy plan dead in its tracks.

North Korea was not cooperating with the U.S. to stop its weapons program, but we should continue helping them to build nuclear reactors. Make sense?

Of course not.

But that's Jimmy Carter for you.

It's also Jimmy Carter the hypocrite. Carter has always claimed to be the champion of human rights worldwide.

Yet North Korea is one of the most, if not the most, repressive regimes on the planet.

The Stalinist nation is headed by a young madman named Kim Jong-il. Kim likes to watch American movies like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and then act out his fantasies on his own citizenry. Millions of North Koreans are starving at any given time.

Does Carter have much to say about this?

Of course not. North Korea is an enemy of the U.S., so Carter goes easy on them. When he met Kim, Carter didn't criticize him – he kissed him!

But there is nothing new here.

The media would have us forget Jimmy Carter's presidential record.

But I won't.

Remember Carter's human rights program, where he demanded the Shah of Iran step down and turn over power to the Ayatollah Khomeini?

No matter that Khomeini was a madman. Carter had the U.S. Pentagon tell the Shah's top military commanders – about 150 of them – to acquiesce to the Ayatollah and not fight him.

The Shah's military listened to Carter. All of them were murdered in one of the Ayatollah's first acts.

By allowing the Shah to fall, Carter created one of the most militant anti-American dictatorships ever.

Soon the new Iranian government was ransacking our embassy and held hostage its staff for over a year. Only President Reagan's election gave Iran the impetus to release the hostages.

I believe Carter's decision to have the Shah fall is arguably the most egregious U.S. foreign policy mistake of the last 50 years. [Former President Bush's decision to allow Saddam Hussein to stay in power is a close second.]

With the Shah gone, the whole region was destabilized. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan; no doubt a direct link to the rise of the Taliban can be traced to this invasion. Iraq also took advantage of the Shah's departure to invade Iran. A long war followed that helped make Saddam's Iraq a great Middle Eastern power.

And decades after Carter's ignominious act, Iran is still bent on destroying America. President Bush named it one of the three nations in the "axis of evil." Iran is developing both nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver these weapons to its enemies.

We can thank Jimmy Carter for all of this.

Since Carter left the presidency, he has had little to say about the human rights abuses in Iran. Why should he? Iran opposes the U.S.

Instead, he has focused his attention on Israel, America's lone democratic ally in the Mideast. Recently, Carter suggested that the U.S. should cut off aid to Israel, so angry was he after Israel sought to defend itself in the wake of suicide bombings.

Fair enough. But what has Carter said about Arab or Muslim countries that have had long records of human rights abuse – Syria or Libya or Iran or Iraq?

Not much. One reason may be money. As NewsMax's Dave Eberhart reported recently, Carter and his Carter Center foundation are recipients of millions of dollars of Arab money. (See: Carter's Arab Funding May Color Israel Stance.)

So I give Carter his due. At least he is not a hypocrite in one sense. He is good to the dictators and butchers who give him money.

12 posted on 02/12/2006 8:57:50 AM PST by ThePythonicCow (The biggest Lie of all: that we are the Master of Knowledge.)
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To: All; secret garden

Carter Policies, Human Atrocities!


13 posted on 02/12/2006 8:59:15 AM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: ThePythonicCow

I thought we weren't only supposed to print the link???
Did I mess up something?


14 posted on 02/12/2006 9:00:29 AM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Jo Nuvark
This may be one of the sites for which we are only supposed to print the link. I have trouble keeping track of which sites those are.

However, if it is such a site, why did you quote almost the entire article, albeit unformatted, in your comment on the original post?

15 posted on 02/12/2006 9:02:16 AM PST by ThePythonicCow (The biggest Lie of all: that we are the Master of Knowledge.)
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To: Jo Nuvark

I tend to credit Carter with fostering the kind of terrorism we now face. Had he handled the Iran situation back then, I think we'd be in a much better world today.


16 posted on 02/12/2006 9:02:34 AM PST by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: ThePythonicCow

Asking forgiveness. I see that I DID print the entire article.
My bad. Will format next time. Thank you for helping.
Some people (me) need more supervision than others.


17 posted on 02/12/2006 9:02:42 AM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: secret garden

he is decomposing from the head down and still won't give it up/


18 posted on 02/12/2006 9:02:42 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: Jo Nuvark

Same here. I've always disliked Carter, lived through his presidential years and remember what an awful president he was.

But my anger is boiling since he pulled that crap at CSK's political rally (oops, I meant funeral). I went yesterday to the cartercenter.org site to write a long email to tell him what I thought, but couldn't find an email address on there.

If I could find out who the corporate donors to his center are, I'd write them all, letting them know I am boycotting them.

We can thank Jimmy Carter for the threat we are facing from Iran and North Korea right now.


19 posted on 02/12/2006 9:07:32 AM PST by girlangler (I'd rather be fishing)
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To: Jo Nuvark
Jimmy Carter -- The Worth President of the 20th Century.

The article forgot to mention that Carter didn't do much about Lebanon and let OPEC walk all over him.

20 posted on 02/12/2006 9:07:35 AM PST by Question_Assumptions
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To: Jo Nuvark

Jimmie Carter has been a bitter old man ever since President Richard Nixon's funeral. He sat there and could see no one would ever find a good thing to say about his failed presidency. What could they comment on, his pounding nails in houses that barely met building codes?

At the funeral, Bill Clinton, Governor Pete Wilson, Bob Dole, Henry Kissinger, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Bob Hope, James Baker and others were there to remember and praise Nixon for his presidential achievements. The sad times and empeachment were not brought up out of respect for Pat and his family.

Since then, Carter has been scrambling to create a legalcy and the one he has crafted is shameful - toady to socialist dictators and corrupt despots and critic of America's greatness.


21 posted on 02/12/2006 9:08:39 AM PST by RicocheT
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To: Jo Nuvark

Do to Carter policies, millions of housing units weren't built. Since then Carter and his feel good, ticket punching Habitat For Humanity have built a few thousand homes. See, it equals out. Carter is a good guy. /sarcasm.

You show me food shortages, poor housing, poverty....Leftist are running the show.


22 posted on 02/12/2006 9:09:35 AM PST by Leisler (Islam Macht Fries!)
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To: ThePythonicCow

[... why did you quote almost the entire article ... in your comment on the original post? ...]

I made a mistake. Sorry.


23 posted on 02/12/2006 9:10:13 AM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: xsmommy
I'd say he was decomposing from the neck up.
24 posted on 02/12/2006 9:13:50 AM PST by Old Seadog (Inside every old person is a young person saying "WTF happened?".)
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To: xsmommy
I'd say he was decomposing from the neck up.
25 posted on 02/12/2006 9:13:51 AM PST by Old Seadog (Inside every old person is a young person saying "WTF happened?".)
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To: Jo Nuvark

That's ok - don't sweat it.


26 posted on 02/12/2006 9:17:57 AM PST by ThePythonicCow (The biggest Lie of all: that we are the Master of Knowledge.)
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To: Jo Nuvark

Ronald Reagan, even in his final hours when he was in a coma, had more intelligence and common sense than Jimmy Carter ever possessed before, during or after his living political abortion of a presidency.

I am SO looking forward to the funeral and burial of that chiklet-grinning buffoon. As disgusting as it might sound (bear with me now), I have saved up four bottles of urine for each of his abysmal years as PITO (President In Title Only), so that when he leaves this mortal coil, I might annoint his headstone and grave appropriately. And why save up four bottles you ask?

Because the miserable sonuvab*tch isn't WORTH the freshly squeezed stuff!

Jimmy Carter is to blame for the current Islamic jihad that the West faces. He instigated it. He cultivated it. He has sought to perpetuate it. Others have aided and abetted, but it was Carter who planted the poisonous seeds that are now producing their deadly fruit.

Jimmy Carter is a Christian like Ted Bundy was an advocate for women's rights.


27 posted on 02/12/2006 9:18:36 AM PST by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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To: Jo Nuvark
"liberlism is a mental illness."

Its worse than that. Its demonic possession.
28 posted on 02/12/2006 9:20:45 AM PST by DarthVader (Conservatives aren't always right , but Liberals are almost always wrong.)
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To: Jo Nuvark

Paragraphs are our friends.


29 posted on 02/12/2006 9:23:47 AM PST by Paulus Invictus
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To: Jo Nuvark

As I stated in a post on this site a few days ago re Carter's antics at the King services, this country should not even lower the flag to half staff when he dies.
Not because he was the worst US President in my lifetime, but because he is a bitter, bitter old man who hates his country and continually displays it, especially when overseas. This country owes the miserable, hateful SOB nothing.


30 posted on 02/12/2006 9:34:11 AM PST by AlphaOneAlpha
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To: All

Hello Moderator... If you're out there, will you help me
clean up my messy post. I goofed and printed the text.

Thanking you in advance. Thanking you anyway, just 'cuz
you're awesome!


31 posted on 02/12/2006 9:39:52 AM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Jo Nuvark
Oh, by the way, this was posted before, twice, four years ago:

Jimmy Carter's Trail of Disaster
  Posted by NCDoc
On News/Activism 05/14/2002 1:22:19 PM PDT · 17 replies · 2+ views


Newsmax.com ^ | Monday, May 13, 2002 | Christopher Ruddy
Jimmy Carter is off this week to save Cuba. With Carter on the loose, the American public needs to watch out. It seems that almost wherever he goes and whatever positions he pushes, Jimmy Carter leaves a wake of devastation and disaster. Carter, we should note, has been cozying up to North Korea for years. He helped the U.S. and the communist country come to agreement during the Clinton years to defuse a tense situation over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. Under the wacko deal Carter arranged, the U.S. would stop complaining about Korea's nuclear weapons program as long as...
 

Jimmy Carter s Trail of Disaster
  Posted by Pokey78
On News/Activism 05/13/2002 8:17:42 AM PDT · 18 replies · 373+ views


NewsMax ^ | 05/13/2002 | Christopher Ruddy
Jimmy Carter is off this week to save Cuba. With Carter on the loose, the American public needs to watch out. It seems that almost wherever he goes and whatever positions he pushes, Jimmy Carter leaves a wake of devastation and disaster. Carter, we should note, has been cozying up to North Korea for years. He helped the U.S. and the communist country come to agreement during the Clinton years to defuse a tense situation over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. Under the wacko deal Carter arranged, the U.S. would stop complaining about Korea's nuclear weapons program as long as...
 

32 posted on 02/12/2006 9:50:47 AM PST by ThePythonicCow (The biggest Lie of all: that we are the Master of Knowledge.)
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To: AlphaOneAlpha

Just to be fair...

In 1970 we lowered the voting age to 18. Being the drug culture
that we/are were in 1976, we elected a bozo for a President.

Then perhaps Carter thinks his do gooding is making up for
his time in office. I find it hard to believe that his "dodo" diplomacy
is purposeful. He's just inept and stupid.


33 posted on 02/12/2006 9:58:12 AM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: ThePythonicCow

I KNOW it was posted four years ago.
I tried to point out in the title that
it was a repeat. I'm angry with Carter
over the King funeral and wanted to
remind people that it's Carter's fault.
Hope that's OK?


34 posted on 02/12/2006 10:00:18 AM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: ThePythonicCow

I KNOW it was posted four years ago.
I tried to point out in the title that
it was a repeat. I'm angry with Carter
over the King funeral and wanted to
remind people that it's Carter's fault.
Hope that's OK?


35 posted on 02/12/2006 10:00:20 AM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Jo Nuvark
Yes - you did point that out. And I failed to acknowledge that you pointed out. Sorry.
36 posted on 02/12/2006 10:20:33 AM PST by ThePythonicCow (The biggest Lie of all: that we are the Master of Knowledge.)
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To: girlangler

I like your idea about boycotting Carter corporate donors.
Can you follow up on that and get back to me or post a
thread? I'd like to keep my money AWAY from that maniac.

Violence is NOT an option, but I'm so angry, I have to
do something.


37 posted on 02/12/2006 2:30:59 PM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Doogle

critter....? fins....?

I've tried, really. But, I don't know how this relates.


38 posted on 02/12/2006 2:33:32 PM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: ThePythonicCow

[... Yes - you did point that out ...]

Still Friends. :)


39 posted on 02/12/2006 2:37:56 PM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Jo Nuvark
I've tried, really. But, I don't know how this relates.

Then click HERE and you will.

40 posted on 02/12/2006 2:41:13 PM PST by BikerTrash (Enough already with the carnival freak show...bring back COOL!)
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To: mkjessup; DarthVader; All

You might enjoy this from Venus Project.

Rôle of President Jimmy Carter Emerging in Illegal Financial Demands on Shah of Iran
By Alan Peters - Monday, March 15, 2004

http://www.venusproject.com/ecs/jimmy_carter_irans_king.html


41 posted on 02/12/2006 2:46:15 PM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: BikerTrash

LOL! I get it. I also need to catch up on "rabbit" events. Snork!


42 posted on 02/12/2006 2:47:44 PM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Jo Nuvark
Under the wacko deal Carter arranged, the U.S. would stop complaining about Korea's nuclear weapons program as long as the U.S. gave aid to North Korea and helped the communists build more modern nuclear reactors.

The U.S. was well on the path to doing this when the new Bush administration sounded the alarm and immediately stopped the cockamamy plan dead in its tracks. North Korea was not cooperating with the U.S. to stop its weapons program, but we should continue helping them to build nuclear reactors. Make sense? Of course not. But that's Jimmy Carter for you.

It's also Jimmy Carter the hypocrite. Carter has always claimed to be the champion of human rights worldwide. Yet North Korea is one of the most, if not the most, repressive regimes on the planet. The Stalinist nation is headed by a young madman named Kim Jong-il. Kim likes to watch American movies like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and then act out his fantasies on his own citizenry. Millions of North Koreans are starving at any given time.

Does Carter have much to say about this? Of course not. North Korea is an enemy of the U.S., so Carter goes easy on them. When he met Kim, Carter didn't criticize him – he kissed him! But there is nothing new here. The media would have us forget Jimmy Carter's presidential record. But I won't.

Remember Carter's human rights program, where he demanded the Shah of Iran step down and turn over power to the Ayatollah Khomeini? No matter that Khomeini was a madman. Carter had the U.S. Pentagon tell the Shah's top military commanders – about 150 of them – to acquiesce to the Ayatollah and not fight him. The Shah's military listened to Carter. All of them were murdered in one of the Ayatollah's first acts. By allowing the Shah to fall, Carter created one of the most militant anti-American dictatorships ever.

Soon the new Iranian government was ransacking our embassy and held hostage its staff for over a year. Only President Reagan's election gave Iran the impetus to release the hostages. I believe Carter's decision to have the Shah fall is arguably the most egregious U.S. foreign policy mistake of the last 50 years. [Former President Bush's decision to allow Saddam Hussein to stay in power is a close second.] With the Shah gone, the whole region was destabilized.

The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan; no doubt a direct link to the rise of the Taliban can be traced to this invasion. Iraq also took advantage of the Shah's departure to invade Iran. A long war followed that helped make Saddam's Iraq a great Middle Eastern power. And decades after Carter's ignominious act, Iran is still bent on destroying America.

President Bush named it one of the three nations in the "axis of evil." Iran is developing both nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver these weapons to its enemies. We can thank Jimmy Carter for all of this. Since Carter left the presidency, he has had little to say about the human rights abuses in Iran. Why should he? Iran opposes the U.S. Instead, he has focused his attention on Israel, America's lone democratic ally in the Mideast. Recently, Carter suggested that the U.S. should cut off aid to Israel, so angry was he after Israel sought to defend itself in the wake of suicide bombings.

Fair enough. But what has Carter said about Arab or Muslim countries that have had long records of human rights abuse – Syria or Libya or Iran or Iraq? Not much. One reason may be money. As NewsMax's Dave Eberhart reported recently, Carter and his Carter Center foundation are recipients of millions of dollars of Arab money. (See: Carter's Arab Funding May Color Israel Stance.) So I give Carter his due. At least he is not a hypocrite in one sense. He is good to the dictators and butchers who give him money.

A product that might interest you: Have an Opinion About This? Send an URGENT PriorityGram Today Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics: Middle East Saddam Hussein/Iraq

43 posted on 02/12/2006 2:50:29 PM PST by Neenah
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To: Question_Assumptions
Jimmy Carter -- The Worth President of the 20th Century.

Brother Billy at his sloppy drunkenest could have done a better job as president than Jimmah.

44 posted on 02/12/2006 2:55:17 PM PST by Uncle Meat
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To: RaceBannon

Thank you for the hostage link.

That man is a menace. I'm ashamed to admit I voted for him. Not because I was on drugs or ill informed, but because he was "born again". I was a dope.


45 posted on 02/12/2006 3:02:27 PM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: ThePythonicCow; Jo Nuvark

We can use all of Newsmax.


46 posted on 02/12/2006 3:04:57 PM PST by Howlin (Why don't you just report the news, instead of what might be the news? - Donald Rumsfeld 1/25/2006)
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To: Howlin

[ ... We can use ALL of Newsmax ...]

Thank you. Now if I could learn to format... use paragraphs...


47 posted on 02/12/2006 3:07:58 PM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Ostlandr

This site provides Inflation and Employment statistics during the Carter Administration. They may not be accurate, because the governance of this website is in question.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/tguide/index.html


48 posted on 02/12/2006 3:17:10 PM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Jo Nuvark

Actually, the way FR works now, all you have to do is highlight the article, copy it, and paste it in the posting box.


49 posted on 02/12/2006 3:18:52 PM PST by Howlin (Why don't you just report the news, instead of what might be the news? - Donald Rumsfeld 1/25/2006)
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To: Howlin
Good - thanks.
50 posted on 02/12/2006 3:21:16 PM PST by ThePythonicCow (The biggest Lie of all: that we are the Master of Knowledge.)
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