Posted on 06/25/2012 6:59:43 PM PDT by pistolpackinpapa
A former U.S. president is accusing the current president of sanctioning the "widespread abuse of human rights" by authorizing drone strikes to kill suspected terrorists. Jimmy Carter, America's 39 th president, denounced the Obama administration for "clearly violating" 10 of the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, writing in a New York Times op-ed on Monday that the "United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights."
"Instead of making the world safer, America's violation of international human rights abets our enemies and alienates our friends," Carter wrote.
While the total number of attacks from unmanned aircraft, or drones, and the resulting casualties are murky, the New America Foundation estimates that in Pakistan alone 265 drone strikes have been executed since January 2009 . Those strikes have killed at least 1,488 people, at least 1,343 of them considered militants, the foundation estimates based on news reports and other sources.
In addition to the drone strikes, Carter criticized the current president for keeping the Guantanamo Bay detention center open, where prisoners "have been tortured by waterboarding more than 100 times or intimidated with semiautomatic weapons, power drills or threats to sexually assault their mothers."
The former president blasted the government for allowing "unprecedented violations of our rights to privacy through warrantless wiretapping and government mining of our electronic communications."
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JEC or BH0 would have lost WWII.
Heck...they would lose a war against the French!
Pile on, Jimmah!
Hoover is up there as one of the worst. If he hadn’t tried to tinkle with the economy by spending more and raising taxes, we might have avoided having FDR as President.
It is official. Obama is a DINO. A member in good standing of the Oligarchy. You would have thought those Greek columns would have given some of those idiots a a clue.
Wait a minute. Is Jimmy starting to sound like Ron Paul?
Woodrow Wilson.
Blessings, Bobo
The SECOND WORST President of all time, jumping on the WORST President of all time! Two peas in a pod!
Obama’s base is forsaking him like rats on a sinking ship. I love it when the demons turn on the devil.
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