Posted on 08/27/2006 4:45:38 PM PDT by FairOpinion
In an exclusive interview, President Carter made it plain that he sees Mr Blair's lack of leadership as being a key factor in the present crisis in Iraq, which followed the 2003 invasion - a pre-emptive move he said he would never have considered himself as president.
"We now have a situation where America is so unpopular overseas that even in countries like Egypt and Jordan our approval ratings are less than five per cent. It's a shameful and pitiful state of affairs and I hold your British Prime Minister to be substantially responsible for being so compliant and subservient."
Mr Carter also said that the Iraq invasion had subverted the fight against terrorism and instead strengthened al-Qaeda and the recruitment of terrorists.
Asked why he thinks Mr Blair has behaved in the way that he has with President Bush's belligerent regime, Mr Carter said he could only put it down to timidity. Yet he confessed that he remains baffled by the apparent contrast between Mr Blair's private remarks and his public utterances.
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Carter is malicious and despicable.
It took a lot of courage for Tony Blair to stand up and support us in the War on Terror. He did it, because he understands the stakes.
Jimmy Carter not only isn't fit to tie Tony Blair's shoes, as the saying goes, but he isn't fit to be in Tony Blair's presence. Carter is a malicious mental midget. The terrorists could hardly have a better friend.
Jimmy is going senile..his wife needs to get him off the stage quickly.
Another Carter "gem": "My own personal opinion is that the Iraqi people are not better off as a result of the invasion and people in America and Great Britain are not safer."
Jimmy is a threat to the USA and the world. He should not be allowed to speak in public. Let him pound nails where he cannot do any damage.
He is running around in foreign countries, giving interviews, bashing the US, UK and sowing joy in the hearts of terrorists.
People used to think he was honest, just incompetent, but the more we find out both about his presidency and his behaviour now, it is becoming clear that he was malicious and incompetent, and a traitor all along. He was even trying to make a deal with our enemy, the Soviet Union, to have them help to prevent the election of Ronald Reagan.
The Carter years consisted of doubke digit inflation, double digit unemployment and a double digit prime rate. This outright failure should just STFU!!!
Shut Up Jimmy! No one cares what you think!
Carter is malaise on the hoof.
Just when you thought this POS said something outrageous, he tops himself and says something even more outrageous. All is not well in that peanut brain of his.
I wish someone would slap the snot out that little man.
What is it with these liberals and popularity contests!???
Unfortunately his insane rants are published in newspapers aroudn the world, including places like Tehran and give hope to the terrorists, that the US is about to lose its will in the War on Terror.
Will the fool never shut up?
It's one thing to attack a sitting successor, which
has hardly ever happened, but to attack and demean a
leader of one of our allies? Insanity!
This vile and sanctimonious man actually had as one of his objectives to leave the White House without having lost a single American in combat.
Hey Carter, isn't it time for you to write another letter to some mad mullah, you know, religious person to religious person like you did with the ayatollah.
Hey Jimmy! Under Clinton 20,000 terrorists graduated from the al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan! Now they are in Iraq and Bush is KILLING THEM!!!
Mr Peanut, you need to STFU!
.....how come ex Pres that are Republican can keep their mouths shut and not criticize but ex Pres that are Democrat feel the need to scrutinize and throw in their 2 cents when it isn't needed....or just plain wrong?......hmmm.... maybe it is just a lack of class....or feeling guilty of the bad old days when they were in charge....ASS HATS!!!!!!!!!
On this matter, Jimmy speaks with great experience.
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