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| 2004-04-09 |
| Posted in short attention span theater for a reason. Former President Carter on Thursday called the Bush administrationâs decision to wage war against Iraq "ill-advised and unnecessary," adding the resulting campaign "has turned out to be a tragedy." Oh. The former Democratic president also said Bushâs environmental policies are perhaps the worst in the nationâs history. Carter made the comments at the Rio R.V. Park after wrapping up a four-day birding trip with his wife, Rosalynn, in the lower Rio Grande Valley. Boring persons with a boring hobby "President Bushâs war was ill-advised and unnecessary and based on erroneous statements, Proof please and has turned out to be a tragedy," Carter said. "And my prayer has been that brave young American men and women, and others who are there, that their lives will be spared and there will be some peaceful resolution of the war." Carter, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, Another great blooper of the Nobel comitee also blamed what he called Bushâs pro-Israel policies for engendering animosity against America. pro-Israel policies where never nessecary to engender animosity towards America "The prime source of animosity towards the United States is the lack of progress in dealing with the Palestinian issue," Carter said, adding that past U.S. administrations since Harry Trumanâs have maintained a "balanced position" in dealing with the rights of the Arab population within the Jewish nation. "The present administration has not done so at all. We have been exclusively committed to the policies of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Israel, and have made no effort to try to have a balanced negotiating position between Israel and the Palestinians," Carter said. Carter, who brokered the historic 1978 Camp David accords that led to peace? between Israel and Egypt, noted that President George H.W. Bush threatened to halt foreign aid when Israel began building settlements in Palestinian territory. "In the meantime, of course, the Israelis have established hundreds of settlements all over Palestinian land with no critical comment ever coming from the present Bush administration," Carter said. Carter, who placed 103 million acres of Alaskan land under federal protection during his term, also took the current White House to task on the environment. "This national administration is the worst for conservation in my lifetime, maybe in history," said Carter, whose family has farmed |
| Posted by:Evert Visser in NL |
| #15 "...the decimation of forest lands." Has this idiot seen the ANWR? If there's anything growing over 6" tall, I'll eat it. I don't think we've ever had a worse ex-President. Even Clinton just mugs for the camera now and again, but otherwise had shut up. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2004-04-09 10:51:09 PM |
| #14 My theory is that Jimmy Carter dedicated his life to restoring Neville Chamberlain's reputation. He's doing a damned good job of it, by the way. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-04-09 10:50:35 PM |
| #13 Touche! I stand corrected James. Add with earplugs on to my orginal statement. |
| Posted by: Ol_Dirty_American 2004-04-09 7:47:03 PM |
| #12 > But as we all know, pointing out faults of Carter > is far easier than wrestling lollipops from > infants. Have you ever tried taking candy from a baby? Baby doesn't care that it'll spoil her supper, baby wants that lollipop! |
| Posted by: James 2004-04-09 4:51:06 PM |
| #11 yeah! you say it korora! |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-04-09 2:05:35 PM |
| #10 Why can't that man simply dry up and blow away? I have to admit, he's made his mark in American History - he's finally surpassed Franklin Pierce as the most useless of US Presidents im thinking you are wrong. |
| Posted by: mv buren 2004-04-09 2:03:24 PM |
| #9 As a birdwatcher myself, I take great offense at the characterization of it as boring. |
| Posted by: Korora 2004-04-09 2:03:02 PM |
| #8 As a birdwatcher myself, I take great offense at the characterization of it as boring. |
| Posted by: Korora 2004-04-09 2:02:32 PM |
| #7 No, Jimmah- it was your presidency that "turned out to be a trajedy" |
| Posted by: Craig 2004-04-09 1:22:01 PM |
| #6 Ah, Dhimmi Carter who put into motion 25 years of mega terrorism by pushing out the Shah of Iran. http://www.nationalreview.com/impromptus/impromptus050302.asp No one quite realizes just how passionately anti-Israel Carter is. William Safire has reported that Cyrus Vance acknowledged that, if he had had a second term, Carter would have sold Israel down the river. But here is Carter, to Douglas Brinkley, Carterâs biographer and analyst: âThe intifada exposed the injustice Palestinians suffered, just like Bull Connorâs mad dogs in Birmingham.â In The Unfinished Presidency, Brinkley writes, âThere was no world leader Jimmy Carter was more eager to know than Yasir Arafat.â At their first meeting â in 1990 â Carter boasted of his toughness toward Israel, assuring Arafat at one point, â. . . you should not be concerned that I am biased. I am much more harsh with the Israelis.â Arafat, for his part, railed against the Reagan administration and its alleged âbetrayals.â Rosalynn Carter, taking notes for her husband, interjected, âYou donât have to convince us!â Much more Carter silliness at the link. |
| Posted by: ed 2004-04-09 1:04:46 PM |
| #5 Dhimmi Carter - America's answer to Jacques Chiraq. Why can't that man simply dry up and blow away? I have to admit, he's made his mark in American History - he's finally surpassed Franklin Pierce as the most useless of US Presidents. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-04-09 1:00:21 PM |
| #4 Jimmy Carter...Why does he hate us? |
| Posted by: remote man 2004-04-09 12:54:37 PM |
| #3 Ok, let's put it into small words so the Georgia Genius can "get it". The air and water are cleaner now then when you were president. That's why you can go see the pretty birdies on your trip. The people blowing themselves up aren't the evil Joooooos. (Put your copy of "The Protocols of Zion" down, Jimmy. It's not real. The Russians wrote it.) The Joooooos are pulling out of the occupied territories. They have had enough of Arafat's crap, even though you haven't. (Yeah, I know.....wasting my time......) |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2004-04-09 12:52:41 PM |
| #2 Send a suicide rabbit. A vicious one. I find it wonderfully ironic that he was talking about the environment to people in an RV park...some of the biggest gas guzzlers on the road. But as we all know, pointing out faults of Carter is far easier than wrestling lollipops from infants. |
| Posted by: Ol_Dirty_American 2004-04-09 12:49:57 PM |
| #1 I hate the word 'balance' and anyone who thinks it represents a coherent (and never mind moral or rational) way of dealing with the world. Too many examples of its sheer ludicrousness come to mind. I would like to send a suicide bomber to Carter's house such that he can give us a practical demonstration of balance. Perhaps he can achieve balance by letting only half his family be blown up. |
| Posted by: Phil B 2004-04-09 11:56:44 AM |
