Posted on 04/02/2011 8:42:38 AM PDT by IbJensen
The only American president to publicly support Middle Eastern terrorism has completed a schmooze fest with a communist dictator in a country that appears on the U.S. State Department’s list of terrorist-sponsoring nations.
It marks the latest “humanitarian” mission for Jimmy Carter, who just a few years ago became the only American commander-in-chief to participate in a hug fest with the head of the world’s leading Middle Eastern terrorist group. During that highly-publicized Syrian jaunt, Carter met with Hamas Leader Khaled Meshal who runs his violent operation from Damascus to avoid being arrested by the Israeli government.
The sophisticated and well-funded Palestinian extremist group has for years appeared on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations and for a former president, or any western leader of Carter’s stature, to meet with its boss is inconceivable. Carter has long supported Palestinian extremism and justifies its violence as a reaction to Israeli apartheid. He even wrote a book ("Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid") about it in 2007.
This week the one-time Georgia peanut farmer made the rounds in Cuba, where he hung out with communist Dictator Fidel Castro and his brother Raul. Carter is the only sitting or former American president to visit the Caribbean island, also deemed a sponsor of terrorism by the U.S. government, since Castro took power in 1959. Carter also visited Cuba in 2002.
The plan behind this week’s little excursion was to discuss ways to “improve U.S.-Cuba relations,” according to a press release posted on the Carter Center’s website. The center made sure to clarify that the trip is a “private, nongovernmental mission” and not any sort of official effort on the part of the Obama Administration. It will be interesting to see if Carter meets with Obama to chat about the Cuban escapade since both men want to lift decades-old sanctions against the country and develop a tighter relationship with the Castro brothers.
Not surprisingly, Carter took the opportunity to do some America-bashing during his stay on the island. He called on the U.S. government to take Cuba off the list of countries that sponsor terrorism, criticized America’s trade embargo against the oppressive communist dictatorship and insisted five convicted Cuban government spies be freed from federal prison. The men, known as the Cuban Five, were found guilty by a federal jury and have lost several appeals despite being represented by topnotch lawyers that most working Americans could never afford. Never the less, Carter called for the prompt return “to their homes in Cuba.”
What can you expect from a guy who commends Middle Eastern terrorists and calls Israel the “tiny vortex around which swirl the winds of hatred, intolerance and bloodshed?” Israeli subjugation and persecution has driven hopeless Palestinians to honor suicide bombers as martyrs and consider the killing of Israelis as victories, according to Carter.
Carter has always been a communist supporter, it’s how the Islamicists played him to get Iran.
Every time I start thinking that Obama might be worse than Carter...
A preview of Obama in 30 years.
He may go back to kenya and live with his brother.
He may go back to kenya and live with his brother.
Hiccup!
That would be the sensible thing to do, but when has BHO ever been sensible in a positive way?
Carter is the model for Hussein
I rather doubt it.
It's only a matter of time before the left decides that a dead and martyred Obama is worth a heck of a lot more than a live embarrassment.
They'll blame the right, but do the act themselves through some cat's paw or another.
Pass this bill, Obama would have wanted it.Note to Federal observers: I do NOT advocate this outcome, I think that an assassination would be the very worst of all possible ends to his regime.Vote for me, Obama would have supported me.
Control this facet of industry/private life, Obama wanted to...
ad nauseum
I'm all for minimizing the damage he is causing by removing him from office by any legal and/or Constitutional peaceful means, and repudiating his policies and reversing his executive orders. But any illegal act or act of violence would be counter productive in the extreme.
Yet he keeps saying he is a modern Kennedy or a Lincoln..
He is pissed that Russia didn’t replace vodka with Billy Beer,,
Jimmah Carter. Living proof that only the good die young.
The article is poorly written. First, if you are going to write about Carter in Cuba, then that should be the lead paragraph, not a diatribe about Carter in Syria years ago.
Second, Carter wasn’t a “peanut farmer.” Carter’s family owns U.S. government peanut warrants which they lease to actual peanut farmers. Warrants assure a government buyer for your crops at fixed prices.
The warrants were given to the Carter’s; the Carter’s profit from that gift.
Carter used those warrants to obtain loans. After Carter left the presidency, he pursued a close relationship with Agha Hasan Abedi, the founder of Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). Abedi was a Pakistani whose bank had offices and business in a large number of developing countries. He was introduced to Carter in 1982 by Bert Lance, one of Carter’s closest friends. BCCI had secretly purchased an interest in 1978 in National Bank of Georgia, which had previously been run by Lance and had made loans to Carter’s peanut business.
Abedi made generous donations to the Carter Center and the Global 2000 Project. Abedi also traveled with Carter to at least seven countries in connection with Carter’s charitable activities. The main purpose of Abedi’s association with Carter was not charitable activities, but to enhance BCCI’s influence. In 1991, BCCI was seized by regulators amid allegations of criminal activities, including illegally having control of several U.S. banks.
*** Carter’s family owns U.S. government peanut warrants which they lease to actual peanut farmers. Warrants assure a government buyer for your crops at fixed prices.*****
Did they also have warrents for worm farms back in the 1970s in which lots of people lost money on that scam?
I got info from the Carter Worm Farms in Plains years ago. They wanted to sell me books (actually pamphlets at book prices) on raising worms. I could have gotten the worms and info cheaper through any sporting goods magazine.
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