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| Carter: Bush ’too busy’ for Israeli focus |
| 2003-09-17 |
| Why doesn’t he die already? FORMER US president sure - rub it in Jimmy Carter said overnight that President George W. Bush was too busy handling a broad range of international affairs to focus on settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "He’s obviously distracted - that’s why he doesn’t give the PA everything they want, like I or Bill C would" "It would be impossible today for president Bush to go in immersion at Camp David with Israelis and Palestinians for 13 days to work out an agreement" Carter said, recalling his own experience exactly 25 years ago ahead of the signing of the Camp David peace accords with Israel and Egypt. Spending 13 days in close proximity to Arafat is too much to ask of anybodyAt the time, Carter went to work at the Maryland mountain retrait joined by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. After 12 days of private talks they emerged and signed the first agreement ever between Israel and an Arab neighbour. "The president has so many foreign policy problems on his desk," Carter said, from Iraq to North Korea to terrorism and nuclear arms proliferation. "half of which I caused or compounded" he said, grinning widely Carter, who spoke at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, said the roadmap for Mideast peace including the creation of a Palestinian state by 2005 was "identical with the basic premises of Camp David, Oslo and the Declaration of Principles," the first peace pact between Israel and the Palestinians signed in Washington September 13,1993. "except the Jews wouldn’t die, dammit" |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #8 Yeah, and it worked out so well for both Sadat and Begin, didn't it Jimmah? |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-9-18 12:05:28 PM |
| #7 "It would be impossible today for president Bush to go in immersion at Camp David with Israelis and Palestinians for 13 days to work out an agreement" Carter said, recalling his own experience exactly 25 years ago ahead of the signing of the Camp David peace accords with Israel and Egypt. Well Jimmy, you stupid f**k, didn't it occur to you that back then the non-Israeli side wanted peace? Anwar Sadat proved it, and he also paid for it with his life. The same can't be said of Arafat, or any of his lackeys that he appoints to the post of PM. The only peace that the Palestinians seek is the peace that comes after all the Jews have been killed. Now GO AWAY, you sniveling little chump. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-9-18 12:31:19 AM |
| #6 He was a helluva peanut farmer. A fitting epitath for him when he goes. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-9-17 11:38:23 PM |
| #5 Tibor, sign me up! I'll vote for that! Jimmih Kahtah is the biggest doofus to ever serve as president of the United States, and that takes some doing! Warren G. Harding fades to second place behind the man that thought because he said something, it was real. The so-called "Camp David Accords" were dead before they hit the floor. Instead of fighting Israel directly, Egypt began doing it through proxies, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad. I don't think it's an accident of history that Arafart is Egyptian - I think he was recruited, trained, and encouraged to be the burr under the saddle he's been for the last twenty-five years. Kill him, and have all the evidence point to Jimmih baybee. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-9-17 10:02:58 PM |
| #4 ... and so is Carter's self-image. |
| Posted by: Dishman 2003-9-17 9:52:09 PM |
| #3 I have a humble proposal -- the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Section 1. No person who has served as President pursuant to Article II of the United States Constitution shall be permitted to discuss politics, domestic or foreign, for a period of 50 years after his or her [very PC of me, huh?] term of office or eligibility to hold such office has expired. Section 2. Notwithstanding the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, the Congress shall have the power to make laws preventing such former Presidents from appearing on television, speaking at political rallies, writing op-ed pieces and otherwise being insufferable gas bags. Section 3. The right of the People to tell such former Presidents to shut the f*ck up shall not be infringed. |
| Posted by: Tibor 2003-9-17 9:49:54 PM |
| #2 Could it be that the world (including the dangerous parts) is a bit bigger than the PA territories? |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2003-9-17 9:35:25 PM |
| #1 Wasn't sure where to post this - Carter's caused trouble in 2/3rds of your regional designations, Fred |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-9-17 9:23:55 PM |