Posted on 11/24/2008 2:52:47 PM PST by george76
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter today said Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis was far worse than he could have imagined and expressed dismay that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his government refused to acknowledge the problem even existed.
"The entire basic structure in education, healthcare, feeding people, social services and sanitation has broken down," Carter told a news conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. "These are all indications that the crisis in Zimbabwe is much greater, much worse than we had ever imagined."
Carter was part of a delegation that was denied entry into Zimbabwe last week to assess the crisis. The delegation members also included U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Grace Machel, the wife of former South African President Nelson Mandela.
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“Because they wouldn’t let me in. Now, if Mugabe had wined and dined me, I’d have given him a clean bill.”
Earth to Jimmy! Come in Jimmy!
YAH, think Jimmy.What a mornon this idiot is..
Sounds like a preview of where Jimmah had us heading and now Obama, Nancy, and Harry can finish the job.
Yeah Jimmy it is called Afro Marxism. You “verified” the election for another dictator named Chavez. You said it was a fair election which was nonsense.
Where is Mandela? He has yet to denounc Mugabe.
YAH, think Jimmy.What a mornon this idiot is..
Well Qu’elle Soo-preese Jimmy ....
so sorry!
who did that to them?
Ain’t Jimmy brilliant and now we have “elected” another African to lead the US. If it is good enough for so many african nations it must be good enough for the US, right?
Jimmy proves yet again that he is an ignorant moron.
It’s about exactly as bad as I had “imagined” so I guess I’m so much wiser than that group of “elders” that Jimmy assembled to be wise men to the world.
Jimmy Carter - the Devil’s helper.
Clown. A frickin clown who pretends to matter. When’s he going to grow up?
Duh! But I bet Jimmy the Dope doesn’t realize that the only solution is a bullet to the back of the dictator Mugabe’s head.
They call themselves “The Elders”??? lol
And they got Annan in there? Oh lawdy that must be a fun group.
Sort of like Detroit.
Sorry, but as soon as I see Jimmy Carter, I just can’t read anymore. I’m sure without even glancing over the aticle, my blood pressure would go off the charts. Please, please Jimmy, just go AWAY! Forever! ugggghhhhhh!
carter truely the last person on earth to know the obvious.
and still doesnt get it.
Carter could have come onto FR and saved himself some time by reading Cathy Buckle’s long-running series on Zimbabwe
Who wants to bet that American taxpayers will soon be bailing them out (more than we already do)?
And who’s going to pay for all these bailouts when the American taxpayer’s back is broken?
Dear Jimmy,
We are highly appreciative of you traveling to places we do not care to go. Please accept our apologies...it seems that somewhere along the way we have given you the false impression that we care where you go, what you find and what you feel needs to be done about it. Now please STFU...where the hell is Dr Kevorkian when you need him?
Carter’s Mugabe is turning out worse than Carter originally planned when Carter installed him back in 1908. He has had a successful reign of terror, murder and mayhem.
Another crowning achievement of Jimmy “the dumb”(now contested by Obummer) Carter.
Jimmuh could have come to FR and got the real story instead of listening to his Marxist friends all this time. We here knew where Zimbabwe was headed years ago, so the current situation is no surprise to us.
I currently live in Georgia, lets just say he is not appreciated here in Middle Georgia. I often tell my wife that it is creeping dementia.. that started in 1970 or thereabouts for him.
lol I know right? We should declare ourselves NGOs and ask for a government grant to come up with a report saying there *might* be some human rights violations going on in Cuba.
We could call ourselves “The Geniuses”
Worse than Pres Carter could have imagined. What a surprise!
I can think of no one single individual responsible for putting Mugabe in power than Jimmy Carter.
Read Carter's Role in Zimbabwe By JAMES KIRCHICK | July 11, 2007, which starts:
President Carter's most recent moralizing on American foreign policy in the Middle East is exasperating particularly in light of President Mugabe's misrule of Zimbabwe, where Mr. Carter's role in bringing the dictator to power has been mostly forgotten.
An otherwise, ‘incredible’ statement; save for the mouth it came from. . .
yes the inflation there is actually worse than under Carter
Jimmy Carter and his ilk are responsible for giving us Robert Mugabe. Mugabe was supposed to be some great leader that would liberate the oppressed Zimbabaweans from the tyranical racist regime that controlled Rhodesia.
Rhodesia was at one point the breadbasket of Africa. It was a model of success. People in Rhodesia enjoyed some of the highest living standards in all of Africa.
Oops!
I can think of no one single individual more responsible for putting Mugabe in power than Jimmy Carter.
If Mugabe were a right winger, it would be mentioned several times in the article.
That's what happens when the government runs all of those things. Barry wants to do the same in the US.
I think he ‘gets’ it. . .it just serves his ego and his agenda. . .to pretend that we do not. . .
Wow, how cool is it to know that most people here are smarter and better informed about the situation than a former president...and we have been for some time. I feel so special.
I hate bp.blogger.com!
No kidding? For Mr. Carter’s information, the whole Zimbabwe
nightmare was caused by a so-called leader who “spread the wealth” there.
Go back to sleep, Jimmah.
Well get ur *ss on a plane and get over to fix it, Jimma! Go build some free housing, or threaten to use your super Nobel Prize-based powers! If that fails, you can always blame Israel again. Idiot.
Jimmy Carter has gone through life saying everything is much worse than he could have imagined. One concludes:
a) He has no imagination
b) He has no genuine deep life experience
As a result Jimmuh is never prepared for the eventualities which inevitably transpire in his life.
Thats why he sucked as a president, and it is also why he sucks now.
And it will be also why Obama will suck in the future.
These liberal/lefties are so much hat and no cattle, that their asses are between their ears.
Zimbabwe can only be saved by a force like the US Marines but Jimmuh thinks that things need to be much , much worse than he imagined that he imagined, to even contemplate such a solution.
Jimmy and his buddy Andrew Young helped put this Marxist thug,Mugabe,in office. If you look in the dictionary their pictures come up when you query “useful idiots”.
Typical Carter idiocy as IIRC, ‘twas Jimma who helped bring down the Rhodesian government of Ian Smith, paving the way for this sort of tribal/tyrant madness.
Once again, someone ELSE winds up paying for the moronic misdeeds of the liberals.
Wait till you see what’s coming for what remains of the United States.
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