Posted on 02/11/2005 7:56:46 PM PST by Johannesson
The following was sent to me by a Venezuelan political activist. Serious aspects of American foreing policy are addressed...
With respect to Venezuela’s recent political, social and economic tragedies, I would like to set the record straight with fact and knowledge from my side. I am a Venezuelan.
The April 2002 uprising: More than a million people protested the anti-democratic actions and multiple administrative abuses of the Chavez regime that were destroying democratic institutions and violating all Venezuelan law. Chavez acceptance during this period was as low as 11%. He resigned because he was directed to, after allowing the murder of innocent civilians who were marching in peaceful protest against the violation of these democratic principles, enshrined in the country’s Constitution; Venezuelans wanted him out. The OAS Democratic Charter imposed sanctions on Venezuela but failed to fulfill their duty of forcing immediate elections. Chavez was allowed to return back to power as a legitimate president when it was known he had clearly resigned; this was neither Democratic nor legal...
It is about time Mr. Carter explains to the American people, why he’s been acting so aloof and irresponsible, not only in Venezuela, but in Peru and many other areas as well.
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Jimmy Carter has the Inverted Midas Touch. In fact, he is the product of this Touch. Everything with his fingerprints even remotely associated with it inevitably turns out to be a disaster.
Carter, like the rest of the left, never did and don't care about this country. It is always about power and control. Their incompetence as managers of this country and its affairs, is exceeded only by their criminality, deceit, lies, extortion, law breaking and hatred for America and its founding principles.
Carter sucks, they all do.
I'm an Aussie so I hope it's ok for me to ask this question - why, why oh why do US ex Presidents feel they have the right to run around the world making their presence felt as if they have the answer to everything?
Do ex presidents of other nations take it upon themselves to go to the US and tell you how to run your country?
Once their elected terms have been served, maybe they should bow out gracefully. Carter and Clinton IMO would far better serve as tour-guides in their libraries.
Once their elected terms have been served, maybe they should bow out gracefully. Carter and Clinton IMO would far better serve as tour-guides in their libraries...
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You are correct, in fact Clinton should be warming a federal prison cell, IMHO. Carter is just a bumbling liberal idiot, while Clinton remains as narcissitic and power hungry as he always was. He will stay in the spotlight until he dies.
Disgusting human beings, both of them IMO. May I suggest the hemlock option?
Eisenhower became a non-controversial university president, Truman quietly retired--Nixon wrote--Hoover was quietly private-, etc.,---
One has to go back to Theodore Roosevelt with his war-mongering before WW 1 to even find one who spoke out domestically---
You will notice that it is only the democrat ex-P's that can't keep their noses where they belong...I believe it's because they have an agenda - One World Gov't = and a misplaced belief they are important
And no one can hold them to account for the suffering and damage they do? I'm thinking of the poor suffering millions in Iran:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1341555/posts
US President Jimmy Carter attempted to demand financial favors for his political friends from the Shah of Iran. The rejection of this demand by the Shah could well have led to Pres. Carter's resolve to remove the Iranian Emperor from office.
The linkage between the destruction of the Shah's Government - directly attributable to Carter's actions - and the Iran-Iraq war which cost millions of dead and injured on both sides, and to the subsequent rise of radical Islamist terrorism makes the new information of considerable significance.
Pres. Carter's anti-Shah feelings appeared to have ignited after he sent a group of several of his friends from his home state, Georgia, to Tehran with an audience arranged with His Majesty directly by the Oval Office and in Carter's name. At this meeting, as reported by Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveyda to some confidantes, these businessmen told the Shah that Pres. Carter wanted a contract. previously awarded to Brown & Root to build a huge port complex at Bandar Mahshahr, to be cancelled and as a personal favor to him to be awarded to the visiting group at 10 percent above the cost quoted by Brown & Root.
if the history books ever get written truthfully, the whole thing starts with Carter -
I still can't figure out if he's one of the socialists that has simply been an easy dupe, with his lack of worldly knowledge before politics and his seeming need to be noticed by the "Big People" -
whatever combination, his true legacy is abominable and, I'm afraid, will continue for decades before we can get the unleashed evil back in the bottle
Come to think of it, Clinton and Carter are really only distinguished by a second term. Much of the rest of their nonsense remains identical. I guess the Republicans have some blame for that though.... Damn it Dole!!!
As much as Clinton and Carter make for great debate, I think, somehow, you are missing the significance of the post and how the Venezuelan situation impacts US affairs.
It's too late to do anything about Carter, the damage is done. No earthly punishment would every be enough if he has truly caused so much misery to others, through whatever reasons/excuses one might try to find. He's a blithering idiot, a numbskull, a d*mn disgrace to the position of POTUS and as dangerous as Clintoon who also let your nation down terribly. I am thinking of the future. Democrat (if there is ever a nother one!) ex presidents are evidently capable of creating obsolute distasters for peoples in other countries...therefor I believe ALL ex presidents of the US should go into retirement and keep their nose out of politics after they have served their elected terms.
Thank goodness Clintoon only comes here to go to the beach and sponge off rich people who take him cruising on Sydney Harbour. He would be wasting his time opening his mouth here...and Carter? I doubt if he knows where Oz is, the pickings for Left wingers are thin on the ground in Australia.
You know what they both have in common, those two? They think that the world begins and ends with a Nobel Peace Prize. They never served the people of the US. They served themselves.
I just realised how MUCH I despise both as I was writing this.
Probably not quite as much as the Iranian situation impacts on the US...
How about the rest of the world? We need a Marxist South America about as much as an islamic bomb in Iran.
LOL
plenty of reason to!
It has always been the tradition for ex=pres to go home and be quiet - keep their noses out of things.
But these people have an agenda - socialism for the world - and they got so close. They just can't accept defeat and GO AWAY.
the lingering danger is the courts - and their steady installation of activist judges that MAKE laws, and overturn the votes of the people, more than adjudicate on existent law.
If we can turn this situation around, we'll have a chance of beating back socialism for another 30 years...
I certainly hope so!
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