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Former US president slaps down 'subservient' Blair (Peanut head)
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Posted on 08/26/2006 10:14:18 PM PDT by hipaatwo

Former US president Jimmy Carter lashed out at British Prime Minister Tony Blair for being "so compliant and subservient" to the Bush administration in Washington.

"I have been surprised and extremely disappointed with Tony Blair's behaviour," Carter told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper as he promoted his new book "Faith and Freedom."

"I think that, more than any other person in the world, the prime minister could have had a moderating influence on Washington, and he has not," said the 81-year-old former head of state.

He faulted Blair for not having been a constraint on US President George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq in March 2003 -- an invasion which, he said, subverted the fight against global terrorism.

"We now have a situation where America is so unpopular overseas that, even in countries like Egypt and Jordan, our approval ratings are less than five percent," said Carter, who was in the White House from 1977 to 1981.

"It's a shameful and pitiful state of affairs, and I hold your British prime minister to be substantially responsible for being so compliant and subservient."


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To: hipaatwo

Here's what America thought of 4 years of Jimmy Carter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ElectoralCollege1980-Large.png

So why does anyone listen to him? Or buy his books?


21 posted on 08/26/2006 10:27:31 PM PDT by KingKenrod
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To: hipaatwo

The Traitor speaks again! Someone given him a straw hat, some overalls and a reed of long grass to dangle from his lips and send him back under a tree in Georgia.

This loser has constantly violated all protocol of being an ex-president by attacking a sitting president and now even allied governments. And this is the dumbass who constantly accuses Bush of ALIENATING allies even as he insults one of our most important??

And please note this man speaks glowingly of the former North Korean tyrannt, Kim Il Jong, yet attacks a brave and stalwart ally like Blair. I guess Jim Bob is just jealous Bush actually has foreign allies, unlike him about whom the world thought was such a laughing stock they'd do nothing for him or our country during his watch.

I have more respect for Clinton than I do this asshat.


22 posted on 08/26/2006 10:28:27 PM PDT by MikeA (Not voting out of anger in November is a vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House)
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To: hipaatwo
Jimmah (Peanutbuttheader)Carter: A poster boy for the axiom coined by Forest Gump, "Stupid is as stupid does".
23 posted on 08/26/2006 10:30:12 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (But who or what can check or balance our appointed for life,by Hezbocrats, Hezbojudiciary?)
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To: hipaatwo
"We now have a situation where America is so unpopular overseas

Because of people like you, Murtha, Kerry, Kennedy, etc. I think you get the picture Mr.Peanut.

24 posted on 08/26/2006 10:33:09 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Never forget Matt Maupin)
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To: hipaatwo

Carter always was, and always will be, a GOOBER!


25 posted on 08/26/2006 10:34:40 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: decal

let the French feed him.



To get to France he'd have to go across the channel and hopefully they'd make him swim [that would be one way of getting rid of the hateful coot]


26 posted on 08/26/2006 10:34:47 PM PDT by AmeriBrit (Spreading the truth - Doing the job the MSM won't do! What happened to 'Able Danger'?)
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To: Paradox

What an arrogant POS!


27 posted on 08/26/2006 10:35:48 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: hipaatwo
Carter is simply one of those wannabes who found the key to gaining acceptance by the intelligencia: Say bad things about your country. If you say positive things about a group, a party, a company, a nation, you're not serious enough for the Noam Chomsky crowd. If you bash, then you're one of them, because you see through the lies and deception, to the truth that the world and everyone in it is miserable, bad, evil and just wrong.

The Left mainlines cynicism because they never left that high school moody-guy stage. Their souls are dressed all in black, and wear sullen expressions. To gain their regard, as Carter has, all you have to do is say "----- sucks".

28 posted on 08/26/2006 10:35:49 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Happy Laorb Day! "The Eye" is watching you!)
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To: ncountylee

Howard would have a few choice words in reply.


29 posted on 08/26/2006 10:36:53 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: F.J. Mitchell
"We now have a situation where America is so unpopular overseas that, even in countries like Egypt and Jordan, our approval ratings are less than five percent," said Carter, who was in the White House from 1977 to 1981.

Two points:

  1. Leadership is not looking at polling information to determine what is the right path to take or policy to pursue.
  2. In countries like Egypt and Jordan a plurality if not a majority of the population think that the US and Israel conspired to crash aircraft in the WTC on 9/11. With ignorance like that - why would one care about approval ratings?

30 posted on 08/26/2006 10:36:55 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: AmeriBrit
I just had a revelation.

This waste of food is doing this in order to make BJ Clinton look good by comparison, to pave the way for Mrs Clinton's run for the Presidency. She must have HIS file, too.
31 posted on 08/26/2006 10:38:27 PM PDT by decal (The Key To Flexibility is Indecision)
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To: hipaatwo

Whatever happened to Blair's "very good friend" Bill Clinton?


32 posted on 08/26/2006 10:39:06 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (ETERNAL SHAME on the Treasonous and Immoral Democrats!)
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To: hipaatwo

Says the worst President to ever be elected to serve this country.

Quite a feat for a ONE TERMER Jimmy.

I really doubt Blair cares what you have to say.


33 posted on 08/26/2006 10:41:34 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (Kobach: Amnesty is going from an illegal to a legal position, without imposing the original penalty.)
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To: I still care

Here's why:


34 posted on 08/26/2006 10:44:01 PM PDT by Cobra64 (All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
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To: Darkwolf377
The Left mainlines cynicism because they never left that high school moody-guy stage. Their souls are dressed all in black, and wear sullen expressions....

Well Said!

35 posted on 08/26/2006 10:46:57 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: hipaatwo
"I have been surprised and extremely disappointed with Tony Blair's behaviour," Carter told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper as he promoted his new book "Faith and Freedom."





jimmuh with a fellow terrorist


Hey jimmuh, hold it right there, faith and freedom are to be removed from your vocabulary. You, single handedly have done more to help spread terrorism as the first "do nothing" lib pres who starts with a 'c'. Jimmuh...join the hezbo's...your a worthless P.O.S. and I fail to recognize you as being from the same country as I am!

/rant>
36 posted on 08/26/2006 10:47:19 PM PDT by Issaquahking (Trust can't be bought)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Lillian, it's a little late to close the barn door after the horse is already out.


37 posted on 08/26/2006 10:48:33 PM PDT by top 2 toe red (To the enemy in Iraq..."Don't bet on American politics forcing my hand!" President Bush)
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To: decal
You could be right, I'd almost bet on it.

That reminds me, I wonder if the Clintons ever paid the back taxes they owed?
38 posted on 08/26/2006 10:50:30 PM PDT by AmeriBrit ( What happened to 'Able Danger'? Which Clinton has all the missing FBI files?)
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To: MikeA
I have more respect for Clinton than I do this asshat.

Me, too...and I don't have a thimble full of respect for Clinton.

39 posted on 08/26/2006 10:50:59 PM PDT by top 2 toe red (To the enemy in Iraq..."Don't bet on American politics forcing my hand!" President Bush)
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To: coconutt2000

Someone needs to tell him he's not President anymore. And nobody cares what he has to say.


40 posted on 08/26/2006 10:51:15 PM PDT by Not just another dumb blonde
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