Jimmy Carter says Zimbabwe crisis is 'much worse' than imagined

Los Angeles Times ^ | November 24, 2008 | Robyn Dixon

[mojito]

If only Hillary would decline the Secretary of State offer then Obama could appoint this clown.

[IrishPennant]

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?

[Chet 99]

[Tarpon]

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.

[antiRepublicrat]

Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis was far worse than he could have imagined

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.

[USAFJeeper]

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.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

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”

[RightWhale]

Worse than Pres Carter could have imagined. What a surprise!

[Maine Mariner]

I can think of no one single individual responsible for putting Mugabe in power than Jimmy Carter.

[NonValueAdded]

Jimmah's hands are quite dirty

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.

[Mark was here]

They should take the land away from White Farmers, and redistribute it to those in favor of redistribution. This will increase production and cure what ills the country.

[cricket]

An otherwise, ‘incredible’ statement; save for the mouth it came from. . .

[Zeppelin]

[ari-freedom]

yes the inflation there is actually worse than under Carter

[St. Louis Conservative]

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.

[Zeppelin]

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[socialismisinsidious]

Major problem with Liberals....they are so stuck in their dreams of utopia that they have no freaking clue to human nature, unintended consequences, history or that really bad men do really bad things. They are juvenile and should be in charge of nothing more important than a lemonade stand.

[Maine Mariner]

Oops!

I can think of no one single individual more responsible for putting Mugabe in power than Jimmy Carter.

[Moonman62]

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.

If Mugabe were a right winger, it would be mentioned several times in the article.

[El Gato]

"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."

That's what happens when the government runs all of those things. Barry wants to do the same in the US.