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| Jimmi "Peanuts" Carter--Embarrassed by Gitmo |
| 2005-07-30 |
| Of course, he is slammin' the US while abroad BIRMINGHAM, England - Former President Jimmy Carter on Saturday said the detention of terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base was an embarrassment and had given extremists an excuse to attack the United States. Speaking at the Baptist World Alliance's centenary conference in Birmingham, central England, Carter also criticized the U.S.-led war in Iraq and said it was "unnecessary and unjust." "I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A.," he told a news conference. "I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts." Carter said, however, that terrorist acts could not be justified, and that while Guantanamo "may be an aggravating factor ... it's not the basis of terrorism." Critics of U.S. oPresident George W. Bush's administration have long accused the U.S. government of unjustly detaining terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base on the southeastern tip of Cuba. Hundreds of men detained in the war on terror have been held indefinitely at the prison, without charge or access to lawyers. "What has happened at Guantanamo Bay ... does not represent the will of the American people," Carter said. "I'm embarrassed about it, I think it's wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people." Carter, who won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his years of peace efforts, has been an outspoken critic of the Iraq war. |
| Posted by:Captain America |
| #20 We're even, Jimmuh - America is embarrassed by YOU. Not to mention disgusted beyond belief. Dunno, EC, but whenever he does check out, I have no doubt where he's going. Nice to know he'll be able to spend eternity with the dictators he loves so well. Mrs. Davis - Good point. And I'll bet a large sum of money that the Bushes (either set) won't fall asleep during the service. I went to DC for Reagan's visitation (didn't get in - the line was longer than the time left before the funeral), and watched the funeral on TV. I won't even go to the bathroom for Jimmuh. I don't know where he's picked for his burial site, but underneath an outhouse would be apropo. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-07-30 21:33 |
| #19 At work, (I'm a design engineer) when a design or component fails, we often call it a Jimmy. It's been said that back in the day, Jimmy and Rosalyn would do the nasty with her on top exclusively. Because Jimmy could only F*@k up! |
| Posted by: Robjack 2005-07-30 20:08 |
| #18 And I bet Gitmo is embarrassed by Djimmi Carter. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2005-07-30 18:27 |
| #17 Jeebus. If this schmuck had just kept his yap shut about politics and stuck to building houses for the poor, he could have kept his reputation as "the most successful ex-President in U.S. history". I'd formerly thought that, even though he was a total clusterf**k as a President, his activities since leaving DC were genuinely admirable. That's completely changed since 9/11, given his insistence on whining about anything and everything we do to fight Islamist terror, and his never-ending ability to excuse and explain away the barbarity of our enemies. There's one more reason I despise Jimmuh. He's an anti-Semite. Not anti-Israel, or pro-Palestinian, even though he's both of these things. I mean he hates Jews. I keep in my office a clipping from the December 3, 2003 edition of the New York Times, an article about the "Geneva Accord", an unofficial peace proposal drawn up by Israeli He then delivered this shocker: "Had I been elected to a second term, with the prestige and authority and reputation I had in the region, we could have moved to a final solution". That's right, folks...at least according to the Times reporter, that's exactly what he said. Now Jimmuh's a well-educated man, he knows his history, and even though his head is filled with a warehouse full of half-baked ideas, he's still not stupid. He had to have known EXACTLY what he was saying when he used the words "final solution" in any context whatsoever involving Jews. |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2005-07-30 18:20 |
| #16 Carter is working hard on his legacy for his life as the worst President the country has had, but still in a neck to neck with James Buchanan. However, don't worry, Jimmy has yet a few more years left in him to grasp that honor. You know, in the long run, it probably would have saved more lives had he nuked Tehran in the first place and stop all this death and destruction from starting up. Now he's got to cover up his abject failure by trashing those picking up after him. Keep digging Jimmy. |
| Posted by: Sholuth Ulomonter3734 2005-07-30 17:05 |
| #15 I remember that nutbag when he was president, I could not stand him and I was 12 years old :) |
| Posted by: djohn66 2005-07-30 17:00 |
| #14 The good news is (seriously) Ima have a cousin what took his peanut seed business to the cleaners to the tune of 800,000 for knowingly shipping defective seed peanuts. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-07-30 16:35 |
| #13 Carter goes to Birmingham, where the first failed bomber was arrested, to say this? Classless idiot. |
| Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2005-07-30 16:24 |
| #12 Carter is one of those people who thinks we should apologize to the Muslim world for our existence. He is - and always has been - the worst combination of sanctimonious smugness and weak vacillation. He did us uncountable harm with regard to Iran, and then jutifies it by repeated harm in which he convinces himself that he is more moral than most Americans. I despise the man. More than anyone, he turned me away from the Democratic party to which I belonged. |
| Posted by: too true 2005-07-30 15:41 |
| #11 "I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts." None of it means anything if you don't BUY their excuses. Do you, Mr. Carter? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-07-30 15:25 |
| #10 3dc is Embarrassed by Carter! |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-07-30 14:56 |
| #9 He's only about 4 years from the Bess Truman stage - forgotten, but not gone. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-07-30 14:53 |
| #8 My only regret about Jimmah's funeral is that he will not be around to see how ill attended it will be. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-07-30 14:41 |
| #7 If Jimmy Carter had never opened Gitmo in the first place, then the jihadis would never have swarmed our embassy and taken all those hostages. Or blown up the Marine barracks in Beirut. Or attacked the Achille Lauro. Or put bombs on airplanes and shot up airports. Or bombed our embassies in Africa. Or attacked the Cole. Or mobbed our forces in Somalia. Or murdered 3,000 people on 9/11. Oh. Wait. Carter didn't open the prison in Gitmo. And all those attacks happened BEFORE Gitmo opened. Some days I wish Carter would choke on his own resentment and die. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-07-30 14:30 |
| #6 Jimmah's inspired, decisive, and dynamic leadership with respect to Iran back in the 1970s brought the US the legacy of Islamic radicals terrorising the US. Thank you Jimmah. Now sit down and STFU, if you would, pleeze, suh. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-07-30 14:29 |
| #5 Carter, who won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his years of Turd. |
| Posted by: JerseyMike 2005-07-30 14:21 |
| #4 People like him never die. They just spend years nattering at others about not having enough fiber in their diets until they devolve into swamp gunk. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-07-30 14:18 |
| #3 Is it not about time that Jimbo check out? He's gettin' up thar in dem years. |
| Posted by: Ebbavins Chomoth3961 2005-07-30 14:10 |
| #2 Some people just have no manners. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-07-30 13:25 |
| #1 No, Jimmy, you're a disgrace. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-07-30 13:12 |