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Carter laments: Terrorists lack 'defense' against Israel
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | December 22, 2008 | Aaron Klein

Posted on 12/23/2008 4:18:31 AM PST by Man50D

TEL AVIV – The Lebanese Hezbollah terrorist organization lacks missiles to "defend" itself from Israeli aircraft, former President Jimmy Carter claimed upon returning from a trip last week to Lebanon.

"The general showed us a graph of the many flights of Israeli planes over all parts of Lebanon, averaging about a dozen each day. Neither Hezbollah nor the Lebanese Armed Forces have any anti-aircraft weapons for defense," wrote Carter in a first-person report posted on his Carter Center website.

Carter was recounting how upon his trip to the region, Italian General Claudio Graziano, chief of the UNIFIL international forces deployed in southern Lebanon, brought him on a tour of the Israeli-Lebanese border.

"At one site near the border, two different Israeli tanks came about 70 yards from us to observe our group," Carter wrote, before claiming Hezbollah lacks anti-aircraft weapons for "defense" against Israeli over flights.

WND Exclusive FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU Carter laments: Terrorists lack 'defense' against Israel Recounts last week's 'peacemaking' trip to Middle East Posted: December 22, 2008 9:27 pm Eastern

By Aaron Klein © 2008 WorldNetDaily

TEL AVIV – The Lebanese Hezbollah terrorist organization lacks missiles to "defend" itself from Israeli aircraft, former President Jimmy Carter claimed upon returning from a trip last week to Lebanon.

"The general showed us a graph of the many flights of Israeli planes over all parts of Lebanon, averaging about a dozen each day. Neither Hezbollah nor the Lebanese Armed Forces have any anti-aircraft weapons for defense," wrote Carter in a first-person report posted on his Carter Center website.

Carter was recounting how upon his trip to the region, Italian General Claudio Graziano, chief of the UNIFIL international forces deployed in southern Lebanon, brought him on a tour of the Israeli-Lebanese border.

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1 posted on 12/23/2008 4:18:31 AM PST by Man50D
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To: Man50D

“...and in extended remarks, former President Carter bemoaned the fact that the patent for the chemical antiseptic ‘Zyklon-B’ had been lost in the chaos of the final days of World War II in Europe, and concluded his statement with a hearty “Happy Ramadan Y’all!”


2 posted on 12/23/2008 4:20:47 AM PST by mkjessup
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To: Man50D

Well, I guess this removes all doubt as to whose side Peanut really supports. So, I guess he would have the U.S. government do an emergency airlift of stinger missiles to Hezbollah so that it can shoot down the Israelis.


3 posted on 12/23/2008 4:23:05 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: Man50D
Carter is such a prune-faced, demented screw-up.

As soon as he got his silly self over to see Hamas he kissed them all like they were long-lost lovers.

Rosalind has ceased to accommodate him.

4 posted on 12/23/2008 4:23:16 AM PST by IbJensen (MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! Next year: famine and communism!)
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To: Man50D

The terrorists would have nothing to fear if they just quit firing missiles into Israel.


5 posted on 12/23/2008 4:23:45 AM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: Man50D

Orla Guerin terrorist parity bump.


6 posted on 12/23/2008 4:24:03 AM PST by Freedom_Fighter_2001 (Stop Global Cooling)
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To: Man50D
So in a nutshell, Jimmuh hates Israel
7 posted on 12/23/2008 4:24:25 AM PST by VaRepublican (I would propagate taglines but I don't know how.)
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To: Man50D
"At one site near the border, two different Israeli tanks came about 70 yards from us to observe our group,"

Any bets they were on the Israeli side?

Oops, I just fired the main gun, Lieutenant... One less POS Commie terrorist lover.

8 posted on 12/23/2008 4:26:40 AM PST by bcsco (Illinois politicians should be read their Miranda rights when sworn in to office...)
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To: Man50D
Can this demented old man get any more irrelevant and out of touch with reality? Next thing you know he will be saying the Borg, and Goauld are repressed minorities.
9 posted on 12/23/2008 4:27:11 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: R. Scott

now you wait just one minute! You are trying to suggest that if one left Israel alone then they wouldn’t want to retaliate?


10 posted on 12/23/2008 4:27:17 AM PST by VaRepublican (I would propagate taglines but I don't know how.)
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To: Man50D
I wonder if Carter ever looked up once in his lifetime? Just the other day Russian airplanes flew over my house right here in Ohio. Doesn't that mean I should get a few anti aircraft batteries for my own use? Never mind the fact they were just passenger planes, they were still Russkies.
11 posted on 12/23/2008 4:28:24 AM PST by bitterohiogunclinger (America held hostage - day 48)
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To: Man50D
Carter is, was, and always will be an absolute asshole.

It's fine if using that language requires some kind of censoring, but really, no other word will do. Here is a man who has admittedly done some good for poor nations in Africa especially, but has done so much more harm in terms of US interests in the name of his completely unearned gigantic ego. His love for terrorists and dictators is second only to his desire to somehow obscure the fact that he was one of the worst presidents ever and whose ineptitude helped bring about the current surge in Islamofascism.

A disgusting, petty maggot of a man.

12 posted on 12/23/2008 4:28:34 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Atheist Pro-Lifer)
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To: Man50D

Carter is such a major Ahole.


13 posted on 12/23/2008 4:28:41 AM PST by Bobalu (McCain has been proven to be the rino flop I always thought he was.)
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To: VaRepublican

I think he hates Jews in general.


14 posted on 12/23/2008 4:29:26 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Man50D

I hope that there will be a decent government in Israel for once and declare this demented anti-Semite and an enemy of America a persona non grata.


15 posted on 12/23/2008 4:30:08 AM PST by Stepan12 (Palin & Bolton in 2012)
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To: Man50D
Neither Hezbollah nor the Lebanese Armed Forces have any anti-aircraft weapons for defense," wrote Carter in a first-person report posted on his Carter Center website.

Gee that's too bad Jimmuh. Why don't they build some? Because they're too busy being murdering scum?

16 posted on 12/23/2008 4:33:17 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Man50D

The Lebanese Hezbollah terrorist organization lacks missiles to “defend” itself from Israeli aircraft, former President Jimmy Carter claimed upon returning from a trip last week to Lebanon

GOOD. Hopefully the Israelis came destroy these scumbag terrorists before their can turn their attention to America and Americans, One of which Jimmy Carter is appearently not...


17 posted on 12/23/2008 4:37:15 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Coming to You From the Front Lines of Occupied America)
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To: R. Scott

The terrorists would have nothing to fear if they just quit firing missiles into Israel.

The terrorists would have nothing to DO if they just quit firing missiles into Israel. Fixed it. Really, you don’t understand terrorists. They don’t want to live peacefully alongside anyone. That’s not their goal, their goal is to destroy Israel and then destroy anyone that doesn’t kowtow to their flavor of Islam. There is no pacifying them, and the only way to have peace is to either destroy them outright, or maintain the threat that you will. The sooner this fact is accepted, the safer the world will be.


18 posted on 12/23/2008 4:37:16 AM PST by bitterohiogunclinger (America held hostage - day 48)
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To: VaRepublican

Heaven forbid! If they left Israel alone Israel would most definitely retaliate in kind!


19 posted on 12/23/2008 4:38:13 AM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: Man50D

America is doomed. The Country has sunk to bottom feeder lows in the last 20 - 30 years.
Jimmy Carter pimping for the Islamofacist and every other terrorist her can find.
Bill Clinto turning the Whitehouse into the WhoreHouse.
Now Barack Obama a no talent, no accomplishment man with terrorist friends and a serious socialist bent, gets elected to the Whitehouse.
Truly as a nation we have turned from God and were are truly being rewarded for that..........


20 posted on 12/23/2008 4:41:02 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Coming to You From the Front Lines of Occupied America)
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To: Man50D
JIHADIS: IT'S YOU!!
KATZ: HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN!!
KATZ: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.
KATZ: DESTRUCTION ARE ON THE WAY TO YOU.
JIHADIS: WHAT YOU SAY!!
KATZ: YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME.
KATZ: HA HA HA HA....
21 posted on 12/23/2008 4:48:49 AM PST by RichInOC (GULBUTH: ME SO THORNY!! ME LOVE YOU LONG TIME!! JIHADIS: UNNNGH!!)
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To: VaRepublican

I wonder what led him down that path?


22 posted on 12/23/2008 4:51:02 AM PST by Made In The USA (Liberalism is a sign of stupidity.)
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To: Darkwolf377

Can you give me a Cliff’s Notes explanation as to how Islamofascism started with Carter? I tried explaining this to my husband the other day, but he wanted a short version. LOL


23 posted on 12/23/2008 4:53:25 AM PST by Aggie Mama
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To: Moonman62

“I think he hates Jews in general.”

Ding Ding Ding. We have a winner.


24 posted on 12/23/2008 5:01:54 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("Control the information, you control the people.")
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To: Man50D

Like disco and leisure suits, Carter is so damn ‘70s. Can he not just STFU at long last????


25 posted on 12/23/2008 5:15:42 AM PST by ScottinVA (islam IS the problem!)
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To: Man50D
He is such an embarrassment for GA and try as we may to ignore him the local media still hang on his every word. Of course I've abandoned the local media, but Jimmy still pops up with irritating regularity.
26 posted on 12/23/2008 5:22:38 AM PST by Taichi (Certe, toto, sentio nos in kansate non iam adesse)
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To: Man50D
Hey Peanut-Brain!

Tell your terrorist friends if they wouldn't launch rocket attacks into Israel they wouldn't have to worry being killed!

Who was it that broke the truce this time anyway!

Hey Jimma, you're needed over in Africa, your buddy Bob over there needs your support!

27 posted on 12/23/2008 5:23:42 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Man50D

No such thing as a ‘fair’ fight , Jimmuh.


29 posted on 12/23/2008 5:27:27 AM PST by Pistolshot ("Democrats don't show respect, they just demand respect " - ClearCase_guy)
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To: Aggie Mama

He supported the Ayatollah in Iran in opposition to the Shah.

For a better understanding of the current “genesis” of Islamic terrorism, study the Grand Mosque seizure from 1979.


30 posted on 12/23/2008 5:28:35 AM PST by Boiling Pots (The USA has become one huge pyramid scheme. Thanks George, John, Nancy and Harry.)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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31 posted on 12/23/2008 5:39:51 AM PST by SJackson (The American people are wise in wanting change, 2 terms is plenty, Condi Rice)
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To: Man50D

That this bozo was once president of the greatest nation on earth is a staggering memory. What a foolish, foolish and pitiful example of a man.


32 posted on 12/23/2008 5:57:21 AM PST by wgflyer (Liberalism is to society what HIV is to the immune system.)
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To: Man50D
Mr Carter what is peace? Will you consider missiles falling on Jerusalem as peace? Do you consider tens of thousands of missiles falling on Israel peace? Mr Carter do you consider the attack of several arab nations at once peace? Mr Carter, you are truly screwed up. You thought 24% interest on a real estate loan was good. You thought destroying US steel industry was good. You thought gas shortage and long lines to buy gas was good. What do you think is bad?
33 posted on 12/23/2008 5:58:37 AM PST by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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To: Man50D

This MORON is — or SHOULD be — an embarrassment to ALL decent Americans!

A partial list of CARTER screw-ups:

Destruction of the Ian Smith government in Rhodesia has given us the wonders of a starving ZIMBABWE and Robert “Zimbabwe is Mine” Mugabe;

The overthrow of the Shah paves the way for the return of radical Islam to Iran and its current status as a sanctuary for terrorists;

The former AMERICAN canal in Panama. Now the CHINESE Canal.

And, my personal favorite.

Back around 1975, Senator Frank Church held hearings on the operation of the CIA and found that — HORRORS — taxpayer money was being paid to foreign citizen snitches who had CRIMINAL RECORDS for vital human, on-the-ground intel on the activities of those who were planning the destruction of this country. Church commented at one session that “Gentlemen do not read other gentlemen’s mail.” Interesting how Church and his fellow Dimocraps viewed men who would destroy America “gentlemen.” Glad that a**hole didn’t serve during the run-up to WWII. (Although he may have handled the “delayed” communication to Pearl Harbor that the Japanese were on the way!)

When he became president, Jimmy Carter fully supported and enforced the Church Amendment. The sorts of people who consort with — and, more importantly, get cozy with — the leaders of terrorist organizations are not normally choir boys. Church moved the legislature to PROHIBIT any US funds going to these potential informants. Since it can take upwards of 20 years for these guys to move close enough to the top to be seriously valuable, we had virtually NO humintel on bin Laden’s plans for 9-11!

While there are still Church-like imbeciles (Reid, Pelosi, et come to mind) at the levers of power here, I THINK the law has been changed.

While the NSA wiretaps and eavesdrops on US citizens HERE, isn’t it comforting to know that in just 15 or 20 years we may be able to thwart a plan hatched THERE for some future 9-11 with information gathered THERE.

Anybody else see a pattern here?


34 posted on 12/23/2008 6:00:10 AM PST by Dick Bachert
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Also Carter's ignoring Soviet expansion gave rise to the Central American communist insurgency including take-overs in Nicargua and Grenada.

The Soviets also took advantage of his soft diplomacy to invade Afghanistan which destablized the region and gave rise to the Taliban and al-Queda.

35 posted on 12/23/2008 6:04:29 AM PST by AU72
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All of which helps to explain why the farmers and citizens of south Georgia erected billboards along I75 after his election declaring

“The people of Georgia apologize to the nation for Jimmy Carter.”

They KNEW him to be the same sort of duplicitous, dissembling and dangerous fool as the very UNFUNNY clown now preparing to infest the White House on January 20th.


36 posted on 12/23/2008 6:39:29 AM PST by Dick Bachert
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To: AU72

All of which helps to explain why the farmers and citizens of south Georgia erected billboards along I75 after his election declaring

“The people of Georgia apologize to the nation for Jimmy Carter.”

They KNEW him to be the same sort of duplicitous, dissembling and dangerous fool as the very UNFUNNY clown now preparing to infest the White House on January 20th.


37 posted on 12/23/2008 6:39:39 AM PST by Dick Bachert
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To: Man50D
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38 posted on 12/23/2008 6:54:50 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: Darkwolf377
Here is a man who has admittedly done some good for poor nations in Africa especially

Do you Care to provide a few examples?

39 posted on 12/23/2008 7:07:30 AM PST by CharacterCounts (1984 was supposed to be a work of fiction, not a how-to manual.)
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To: Man50D

I’m sure Cawter will get a lovely State funeral one day, hopefully soon, in Lebanon or the West Bank. Maybe he will be honored with his grave being next to Arafat’s.


40 posted on 12/23/2008 7:39:57 AM PST by citizen (Fascism: All persons, capital & activities exist to support the will & best interests of the State.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Here's Jimmmmmieeee from the other side....


41 posted on 12/23/2008 7:44:24 AM PST by jws3sticks (Hillary can take a very long walk on a very short pier, anytime time, and the sooner the better!)
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To: Man50D
Note to Carter:
Shut up, build houses, and make bio-diesel from peanuts. Stop taking it out on all Jews that Hyman Rickover realized you were a putz.
42 posted on 12/23/2008 10:03:22 AM PST by rmlew (The loyal opposition to a regime dedicated to overthrowing the Constitution are accomplices.)
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To: Man50D

With each and every new utterance by Jimmy Carter, I have to shake my head and wonder if he’s just acting this stupid on purpose.

No one can be this clueless and ignorant in real life, can they?


43 posted on 12/23/2008 10:07:08 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Resist the Obamination!)
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No one can be this clueless and ignorant in real life, can they?

Read about the entire Kennedy family....

45 posted on 12/23/2008 3:42:29 PM PST by xJones
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To: Aggie Mama
Check out this site, or send your hubby there.

http://blogsforjohnmccain.com/category/tags/jimmy-carter

Jimmy allowed the Islamofascists to rise to power because the shah of Iran was "against freedom" or whatever simpleminded explanation Carter used for standing by while the shah's position wobbled. I'm not sure if this link covers it, but basically, the Iranian revolution was in large part started by students wanting liberty, and simply taken over by the clerics who called back their vile brethren who were exiled or took off. They just came back to the country and Iran came under control of the Ayatollah.

46 posted on 12/23/2008 9:59:45 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Atheist Pro-Lifer)
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To: CharacterCounts
I read a book about Carter many years ago that detailed some of his good works. This link is to a biased source, of course, but if you sift through it it does note some of the good (and a lot of what they think is good, I think vile) things Carter has done. I was thinking in particular his work in getting vaccinations to poor folks in Africa--I know many FReepers sneer at that, but I think saving human lives is a good thing.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/timeline/timeline3.html

Again, though, I post this only because it's convenient about certain activities involving helping the poor in Africa--on everything else, consider the source!

47 posted on 12/23/2008 10:02:55 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Atheist Pro-Lifer)
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To: Man50D

Jimmah is only a short step away from calling for Israel to be nuked.


48 posted on 01/07/2009 1:36:03 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Man50D

The vile doofus now looks like Mr. Magoo..


49 posted on 01/07/2009 10:31:26 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Dick Bachert

Well said.


50 posted on 01/07/2009 10:36:17 PM PST by Edgewood Pilot
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