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Carter: Bush hurts prospects for peace
The Grand Rapids Press ^ | 05 AUGUST 2006 | Ed Golder

Posted on 08/05/2006 7:33:25 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist

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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
ME: Carter hurts prospects for peace, for last thirty years.
41 posted on 08/05/2006 8:02:28 AM PDT by rock58seg (A minority of Republican RINO's are making a majority of Republicans look like fools.)
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To: kagnew

Good idea. He can go cry with Castro.


42 posted on 08/05/2006 8:04:10 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
In 1978, Carter brought together Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at Camp David to set a framework for Middle East peace.

Um, no. Sadat and Begin came together when Sadat visited Israel in 1977. Carter was just the hotel manager, when Sadat and Begin needed someplace quiet to go to hammer out the details.

43 posted on 08/05/2006 8:05:13 AM PDT by Celtjew Libertarian
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To: Optimist
...the only way to bring a permanent peace is to eliminate the permanent threat ... which Israel began to do about 3 weeks ago.

You wrote my new tagline. Brilliantly succint analysis.

Someday, if history repeats itself, we are going to lose the tremendous freedoms that we have. When that happens, those who "wail" about how "unpeaceful" things are will either get louder, because that's what they do, or will become nonexistent - because they are the first ones that will be imprisoned or killed.

I pray that I am wrong. History seems to indicate otherwise, though.

44 posted on 08/05/2006 8:05:41 AM PDT by Christian4Bush (The only way to bring a permanent peace is to eliminate the permanent threat. - FReeper Optimist)
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To: darkwing104
You can call Jimmy anything that you want to except a PEANUT FARMER. They are very respectable people.
45 posted on 08/05/2006 8:07:51 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, over there, We won't be back 'til it's over Over there.")
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To: Tallguy
Jimmy lives in an alternate universe.

He will, within the next twenty years. And we who remain will still be dealing with his problems.

46 posted on 08/05/2006 8:08:10 AM PDT by Christian4Bush (The only way to bring a permanent peace is to eliminate the permanent threat. - FReeper Optimist)
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To: don-o
"Wrong. I bet is crap gets splashed all over the mooslimb press."

Good grief. Do you really think that matters? These folks are insane fanatics. With or without comments from Carter. He's as irrelevent to events in the Middle East as he ever has been.

47 posted on 08/05/2006 8:09:50 AM PDT by Rokke
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To: dfwgator

Earth To Jimmy Cawtaw,How many have died since your PHONY "PEACE"???


48 posted on 08/05/2006 8:11:08 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: GeronL

Well,doesn't he have a Nobel PEACE Prize?Oh,I almost forgot,so does Yassir!!!


49 posted on 08/05/2006 8:12:29 AM PDT by bandleader
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50 posted on 08/05/2006 8:14:03 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Monotheism is a gift from the gods.)
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To: dfwgator

Surely you remember. Sadat was embraced by his fellow adherents to the Religion of Peace and we haven't heard a peep from the Islamists since then.


51 posted on 08/05/2006 8:15:52 AM PDT by RedRover
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To: kagnew
Have you ever noticed that it's only DEMOCRAT X-PRESIDENTS that can't keep their mouths shut?

Unfortunately right now, it's a numbers game. Of the four living ex-presidents, half of them are Democrat, one is not really talking (Ford at 93) and the other is the father of our current President. (and then there's Hillary)

I guess the solution is to make fewer Democrat X-presidents, and let the existing ones die off. What will happen is, when these two terrorist enablers die, the coverage will dwarf what the media was "forced" to cover when Ronald Reagan died. I don't remember the coverage for Nixon, and I was too young when LBJ died. But I can only imagine the puff pieces that the DBM will do on Jimmah and Bubbah.

52 posted on 08/05/2006 8:16:51 AM PDT by Christian4Bush (The only way to bring a permanent peace is to eliminate the permanent threat. - FReeper Optimist)
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To: RedRover

Sadat was shot, and don't call me "Shirley." ;)


53 posted on 08/05/2006 8:17:17 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

My apologies! :)


54 posted on 08/05/2006 8:25:00 AM PDT by RedRover (Go Gators! And go Israel!)
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To: Rokke
Good grief. Do you really think that matters?

I do. Gasoline on fire.

55 posted on 08/05/2006 8:25:23 AM PDT by don-o (Proudly posting without reading the thread since 1998. (stolen from one cool dude))
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Hey Jimmy, if you hate this country so much, why don't you Move to Russia so you can hang out with your dead buddy Breshnev, and your living buddy, Vladimir Putin.


56 posted on 08/05/2006 8:27:14 AM PDT by Thunder90
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The $500-a-person event, attended by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, was held at the Plainfield Township home of Brent and Diane Slay. The Slays are longtime friends of the Carters and financial supporters of their humanitarian work through the nonprofit Carter Center.

Too many damn people with money they didn't earn by hard work. They earned it by BS'ing their way in life. That's the only explanation I have for such liberals.

57 posted on 08/05/2006 8:36:16 AM PDT by Clock King ("How will it end?" - Emperor; "In Fire." - Kosh)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

My brother said that Jimmy Carter wasn't fit to lick George W's boots.I said you're wrong Bruce,he's fit to lick ANYONE'S boots.

This has to be about the third time this week Carter has made some public statement about something he neither understands or appreciates-it's getting more than a little tiresome.


58 posted on 08/05/2006 8:38:32 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

what a slop bag.


59 posted on 08/05/2006 8:40:04 AM PDT by Modok
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To: goldstategop
Jimmy Carter brought us the mullahs of Irans who brought us Hezbollah. He should have some shame for turning Iran from a pro-American ally into a hotbed of America-hating radical Islamofascism. If there's any one who undermined peace more in the Middle East, its former President Carter and his willingness to countenance the rise of a radical regime that today threatens both the existence of Israel and America. President Bush is simply trying to clean up the mess Carter created a quarter of a century ago.

He should, but he won't. What is his problem?

Naivete? Pride? Inability to feel shame? Or is he just plain evil?

From Jay Nordlinger, Carter expert :

For years, Carter has been a thorn in the side of presidents, acting as a kind of "anti-president," as Lance Morrow once put it in an essay for Time. You recall how Carter irked Clinton on Haiti and North Korea. His low moment, however, came during the run-up to the [first] Gulf War, when he wrote members of the U.N. Security Council - including Mitterrand's France and Communist China - urging them to thwart the Bush administration's effort. Our government found out about it when the Canadian prime minister, Brian Mulroney, called the defense secretary, Dick Cheney, and said, "What the . . .?" Then there's billionaire terrorist Yasser Arafat (as Nordlinger notes, "Arabs are heavy-duty funders of the Carter Center, and they get a lot for their money"):

After the Gulf War, Saudi Arabia was mad at Arafat, because the PLO chief had sided with Saddam Hussein. So Arafat asked Carter to fly to Riyadh to smooth things over with the princes and restore Saudi funding to him - which Carter did.

At their first meeting - in 1990 - Carter boasted of his toughness toward Israel, assuring Arafat at one point, ". . . you should not be concerned that I am biased. I am much more harsh with the Israelis." Arafat, for his part, railed against the Reagan administration and its alleged "betrayals." Rosalynn Carter, taking notes for her husband, interjected, "You don't have to convince us!" Brinkley records that this "elicited gales of laughter all round." Carter himself, according to Brinkley, "agreed that the Reagan administration was not renowned as promise keepers" (this, to Arafat).

After Carter had that first meeting with Arafat, he went home and promptly served the PLO head as PR adviser and speechwriter. What do I mean? Listen to Brinkley: "On May 24 Carter drafted on his home computer the strategy and wording for a generic speech Arafat was to deliver soon for Western ears . . ." Said Carter, "The audience is not the Security Council, but the world community. The objective of the speech should be to secure maximum sympathy and support of other world leaders . . . The Likud leaders are now on the defensive, and must not be given any excuse for continuing their present abusive policies."

There's Carter sucking up to dictators:

While in office, Carter hailed Yugoslavia's Tito as "a man who believes in human rights." He said of Romania's barbaric Ceausescu and himself, "Our goals are the same: to have a just system of economics and politics . . . We believe in enhancing human rights." While out of office, Carter has praised Syria's late Assad (killer of at least 20,000 in Hama) and the Ethiopian tyrant Mengistu (killer of many more than that). In Haiti, he told the dictator CC)dras that he was "ashamed of what my country has done to your country."

He did even better in North Korea, singing praises to Kim Il Sung, one of the most complete and destructive dictators in history. . . . Said Carter of the "Great Leader," "I find him to be vigorous, intelligent, surprisingly well informed about the technical issues, and in charge of the decisions about this country" . . . He said, "I don't see that they [the North Koreans] are an outlaw nation." Pyongyang, he observed, was a "bustling city," where shoppers "pack the department stores," reminding him of the "Wal-Mart in Americus, Georgia."

60 posted on 08/05/2006 8:43:41 AM PDT by mjolnir ("All great change in America begins at the dinner table.")
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