Posted on 08/27/2006 4:45:38 PM PDT by FairOpinion
In an exclusive interview, President Carter made it plain that he sees Mr Blair's lack of leadership as being a key factor in the present crisis in Iraq, which followed the 2003 invasion - a pre-emptive move he said he would never have considered himself as president.
"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 per cent. 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."
Mr Carter also said that the Iraq invasion had subverted the fight against terrorism and instead strengthened al-Qaeda and the recruitment of terrorists.
Asked why he thinks Mr Blair has behaved in the way that he has with President Bush's belligerent regime, Mr Carter said he could only put it down to timidity. Yet he confessed that he remains baffled by the apparent contrast between Mr Blair's private remarks and his public utterances.
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Carter is malicious and despicable.
It took a lot of courage for Tony Blair to stand up and support us in the War on Terror. He did it, because he understands the stakes.
Jimmy Carter not only isn't fit to tie Tony Blair's shoes, as the saying goes, but he isn't fit to be in Tony Blair's presence. Carter is a malicious mental midget. The terrorists could hardly have a better friend.
Jimmy is going senile..his wife needs to get him off the stage quickly.
Another Carter "gem": "My own personal opinion is that the Iraqi people are not better off as a result of the invasion and people in America and Great Britain are not safer."
Jimmy is a threat to the USA and the world. He should not be allowed to speak in public. Let him pound nails where he cannot do any damage.
He is running around in foreign countries, giving interviews, bashing the US, UK and sowing joy in the hearts of terrorists.
People used to think he was honest, just incompetent, but the more we find out both about his presidency and his behaviour now, it is becoming clear that he was malicious and incompetent, and a traitor all along. He was even trying to make a deal with our enemy, the Soviet Union, to have them help to prevent the election of Ronald Reagan.
The Carter years consisted of doubke digit inflation, double digit unemployment and a double digit prime rate. This outright failure should just STFU!!!
Shut Up Jimmy! No one cares what you think!
Carter is malaise on the hoof.
Just when you thought this POS said something outrageous, he tops himself and says something even more outrageous. All is not well in that peanut brain of his.
I wish someone would slap the snot out that little man.
What is it with these liberals and popularity contests!???
Unfortunately his insane rants are published in newspapers aroudn the world, including places like Tehran and give hope to the terrorists, that the US is about to lose its will in the War on Terror.
Will the fool never shut up?
It's one thing to attack a sitting successor, which
has hardly ever happened, but to attack and demean a
leader of one of our allies? Insanity!
This vile and sanctimonious man actually had as one of his objectives to leave the White House without having lost a single American in combat.
Hey Carter, isn't it time for you to write another letter to some mad mullah, you know, religious person to religious person like you did with the ayatollah.
Hey Jimmy! Under Clinton 20,000 terrorists graduated from the al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan! Now they are in Iraq and Bush is KILLING THEM!!!
Mr Peanut, you need to STFU!
.....how come ex Pres that are Republican can keep their mouths shut and not criticize but ex Pres that are Democrat feel the need to scrutinize and throw in their 2 cents when it isn't needed....or just plain wrong?......hmmm.... maybe it is just a lack of class....or feeling guilty of the bad old days when they were in charge....ASS HATS!!!!!!!!!
On this matter, Jimmy speaks with great experience.
Related article:
Failed President Attacks Bush
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16686
While Jimmy was in the White House, Iran changed from a pro-Western, friendly government (under the Shah) to the grisly rule of Ayatollah Khomeini and his fundamentalist followers, who seized more than 50 American hostages. And haven’t things been sweet ever since?
The civilized world is in great pain because of the power-mad fanatics running Iran these days, and there is a school of thought that Jimmy’s human rights policy encouraged the shah’s overthrow. In any case, Carter did nothing to forestall that revolution or lessen its catastrophic impact.
There is rope and somewhere a lampost with this self absorbed traitors name on it
Carter is mendacious and despicable. He created the current Iranian regime; he carried an offer of $1bn to North Korea for nuclear development in 1998, after the same offer had been made to Carter's regime in Iran.
Carter (friend of dictators worldwide -- the more brutal, the more he likes them) wants Blair to comply with his demands.
I await Carter to campaign again with Michael Moore this November and again in 2008. Then whoever they campaign for will lose.
Posted on 02/28/2006 9:14:09 AM PST by presidio9
Has Jimmy Carter ever met a dictator he did not love? Unfortunately, this darling of worldwide leftists cannot seem to disappear from the world stage. Listed herewith are some of the more egregious of our 39th President's follies. The consistent theme is his unwavering support for socialist dictators.
n President Jimmy Carter invited Robert Mugabe to the White House in 1980 and fully supported this dictator's rise to power in Rhodesia. Moderate black Bishop Abel Muzorewa had been elected to the post of prime minister. However, President Carter with the support of the world press succeeded in declaring the election null and void. Mugabe, an avowed Marxist, was elected in a second election. The totals of the Zimbabwe disaster under Mugabe are still being tallied: 70 percent unemployment, a total dictatorship, the displacing of productive white farmers and the resulting destruction of productive farms, an exodus of three million Zimbabweans from the country.
n Jimmy Carter has shown a special dedication to the cause of leftist dictators in Central America. He used the full power of the office to undermine and set the stage for the overthrow of the duly elected Anastasio Somosa in Nicaragua, to be replaced by the Marxist Sandanista Daniel Ortega. No matter that the Somosa election had been certified by the OAS. He continues to offer moral support for Marxist dictators Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.
n The Iran hostage crisis occurred under Jimmy Carter's watch. From Nov. 4, 1979 until Jan. 20, 1981 some 66 Americans were taken hostage and held in the American Embassy in Teheran. They were released within hours of President Ronald Reagan's swearing in ceremony. Just prior to his inauguration, President Reagan was asked if perhaps the captors should wait until he became president so as to make a better deal for the captives release. Reagan replied, "That would be foolish."
n Ex-President Jimmy Carter has been instrumental in the rise to power of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. Hugo Chavez was saved from recall by the voters in Venezuela in 2004 with Carter "monitoring" the election. The election was suspicious on many fronts. The exit polls conducted by an independent New York poling firm declared one half hour before the polls closed that Chavez had been defeated. When the official results were announced, Chavez was declared the winner by nearly the exact opposite percentages as the independent poll had determined. Jimmy Carter certified the Chavez victory anyway. Chavez has shown himself to be a continual hater of the United States.
n One of the most serious threats to global security is the nuclear threat posed by Marxist dictator Kim Jung Il of North Korea. In 1994, without governmental authority, Jimmy Carter went to North Korea and brokered a deal with Kim Jung Il that was supposed to keep that rogue state from attaining nuclear weapons. Jimmy's "negotiation" called for the United States to provide the North Koreans with $4 billion worth of light water reactors and $100 million in oil in exchange for a promise not to develop weapons plus assurances that inspectors would be allowed in. On Aug. 28, 2003 North Korea announced that it possessed nuclear weapons.
n Perhaps the most egregious and far reaching of the Jimmy Carter failures was his bringing down of the Shah of Iran in 1979, to be replaced by radical Muslim cleric Ayatollah Khomeini. The history of Iran is such that a secular government friendly to both the West and their trading partners along the ancient trade routes, such as India and China, had been an important stabilizing element in Mid-east politics for centuries. Jimmy Carter pressured the Shah, a longtime friend of the United States, to leave Iran. Then he denied him asylum and medical treatment. At the same time he supported the fundamentalist Mullahs who opposed the Shah. A religious revolution followed and the rise of Muslim fundamentalism had begun in the Middle East. The terrorism and overall unrest that plagues the world today can be properly traced to this specific failure of the Jimmy Carter presidency.
It is popular in some circles to blame others such as the United States, or Israel, or George Bush for the instability and radicalism in the Middle East while overlooking the role that Jimmy Carter played in the current situation. But it is a fact of history that Jimmy Carter played a key role in creating the two most important threats to global security today, namely Iran and North Korea.
Reprint that says it all.
Even better, Iran's current president was in charge of the hostages in 1979. How's that for fitting?
Jimmah is still under Castro's spell.
Carter has proven what he is: A bitter little man.
I am ashamed this man was ever President of the United States. It is said that a free country deserves the leaders it elects, but I can't believe we ever deserved him!
Thanks for posting this reminder
Right, jimmah, Blair and Bush should fight terrorists the way you did ... NOT!
He is indeed malicious and despicable. He is also, in my opinion, a genuine traitor to this country. That word is tossed around too much and has all but lost any real meaning. Yet Carter has truly met the criteria of Section 3 of the United States Constitution many times over"
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
As for the witnesses requirement, millions of people the world over have witnessed Carter's treason.
Contrast our two last 1 term Presidents.
George H. Bush, a study in personal character, whether you agree with him or not. A man of personal honor.
Jimmy Carter, a bitter, little, petty man, the worst President this country has ever had, whose only concern is his legacy.
When England throws him out, do we have to take him back?
When "Carter" or "Jimmy Carter" is in the title, no barf/gag alert is required.
It is redundant.
Jimmah hasn't had a good thing to say about the USA since...well, since...
...a long time. If ever.
Someone needs to tie jimmuh to a chair, glue his eyelids open, and force him to watch the islamofascist beheading videos. I don't believe he has seen them.
When asked by the media for his thoughts on the Hamas triumph in the Palestinian parliamentary elections, former President Jimmy Carter replied that while they have a terrorist past, at least they're not corrupt.
One of the complaints by many in the Middle East was the corruption within the Palestinian Authority and Yasser Arafat's Fatah Party.
Arafat himself squirreled away millions of dollars from aid packages that were intended to help the Palestinian people.
However, Carter's comment appears to dismiss the years of death and destruction perpetrated by Hamas on the Jewish State.
One of the first statements made by the leaders of Hamas rebuffed demands to disarm and change its charter. Part of Hamas' charter is the total destruction of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic nation.
Israelis are in shock over this development and they wonder how they will be able to negotiate with these newly empowered Islamic Jihadists in their midst.
It's one thing to fight terrorists living in the shadows, but quite another thing to deal with them when the are legally elected officials in a sovereign nation that borders the Israeli State.
Tehran sent its congratulations to “the Palestinians, the Hamas movement, all Palestinians combatants, and the great Islamic [jihad].”
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He can always go to Cuba, Castro will be happy to have him.
Keep talking you insufferable fool.Carter=fool.nuff said
Let him pound nails? Let him pound sand!
He assumes those private remarks represent Blair's real feelings. But sometimes when in private with a liberal like Carter, you just humor him and agree with him just so he will shut up and leave.
OMG! Where is the duct tape?
This creep just keeps on mouthing off but notice how he never gets on stage with someone else to debate his ridiculous views. Someone needs to knock him upside the head and set the fool straight once and for all.
Coward who thinks he is so big and courageous by talking anti-American trash.
pig!
I think it's time to redeploy Jimmahs secret service agents.
"Carter is malicious and despicable."
Yes he is. Why a sanctimonious jerk is treated as a 'nice person' because he is a blame-America-first coddler of America's enemies is beyond me.
Oh, no its not. ANyone who bashes America is put on a pedastel.
"Unfortunately his insane rants are published in newspapers aroudn the world, including places like Tehran and give hope to the terrorists, that the US is about to lose its will in the War on Terror."
Unfortunately his insane rants are reflective of the mood of the Democrats and thus were we to elect a Democrat, the US would lose its will in the War on Terror.
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