Castro's friend

The American Thinker ^ | Dec. 18, 2004 | A.M. Mora y Leon

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We've discussed Jimmy Carter's legacy of friendship and warm support for the world's dictators many times already, notably on Venezuela, but a return to Carter's Cuba legacy may be an even worse experience, because of an unmistakable whiff of treason.

Where do we start? Remember Jimmy Carter's cabinet appointments? People like Andrew Young, who hung out with the hate-America crowd over at the United Nations and denounced America and Israel with the gamiest dictators on earth? Carter had a lot of these rabid blame-America-firsters on his coattails, and some are more active than ever.

One is named Wayne Smith, who was appointed by Carter to head the first U.S. Cuba interest section in Havana in 1978. Carter never had the guts to establish diplomatic ties with El Barbudo, so this was the equivalent he went for some 25 years ago, and he found the perfect dictator's friend in Smith.

Now, since the controversy over the U.S. Mission in Havana's Christmas light display remembering Cuba's 75 imprisoned dissidents, a mainstream media reporter asked Wayne Smith a couple days ago what he thought of it. The Carter-man's response? That Cuba should retaliate by putting up pictures of U.S. prison abuses at Abu Ghraib.

Castro was impressed with Smith's advice, and in less than 24 hours put up a wall of glossy ad-style large-scale photos of Abu Ghraib abuses that look like a Benetton ad, across the street from the U.S. Mission's Christmas display.

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A whiff of Jimmy Carter in Havana - Castro's Abu Ghraib pictures in Havana were done at the advice of Carter's yes-man in Havana in 1978. I guess we know who he was working for all along. And Jimmy Carter remains secure as ever for being Always The Dictator's Friend. This whole story stinks and it was exposed by bloggers Val at Babalu and his pal Hog on Ice.

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Carter was the most incompetent and ineffective man ever to occupy the White House. Compare to Carter, Clinton was a brilliant foreign policy leader.

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Agree. Look at the slime he appointed to represent the US! The man represents Castro and helps him in tangible ways to get back at the US. It's sickening!