Rôle of US Former Pres. Carter Emerging in Illegal Financial Demands on Shah of Iran

Iranian Alert -- March 15, 2004 [EST]-- IRAN LIVE THREAD --Americans for Regime Change in Iran ^ | March 15, 2004 | Alan Peters

[MEG33]

WOW!Very Interesting.Carter is a menace to America and always has been.I simply thought him inept when he was in office,I realize now that he is more dangerous.

[Barset]

save for later.

[FreedomPoster]

Your post says everything I would have said in answer to andyman's comment, and more. Well-mirrors the evolution of my view on Carter. Excellent post.

[Piranha]

If Carter thought that the Bani-Sadr administration would succeed the Shah, and that he could reach a political rapproachment with that group, then he may have believed that it was politically astute to change the regime. Later, as this article suggests, he was finessed by Ayatollah Khomenei, who did not remain on Olympus but instead got involved in the government of Iran in a significant way. (I believe that Bani-Sadr was murdered in Paris).

[philman_36]

Glad to see you've already found your way here.
I was going to say...Look who is making the news again.

[Grampa Dave]

The cause of much of the misery in today's world can be laid at the feet of Jimmy Carter. He started this entire cycle when he refused to kill the murdering mullahs who seized our embassy. Then, he started to dismantle our intel agencies which set up 9/11 with the help of Gorelick.

[shield]

bmp

[Beckwith]

Carter also demonstrated to Islamists that the US could be pushed around by taking hostages.

Carter should have told the Ayatollah to relaease the hostages instantly or face a devastating air assault on all of the government and Muslim buildings in the country.

[philman_36]

He started this entire cycle when he refused to kill the murdering mullahs who seized our embassy.
From the tone of the article he started it all when he set his money hungry buddies loose, well before the mullahs got loose. The loss of the Shah, even with his dubious nature, is what started the ball rolling IMO.
Note the emphasis on Billy's trip from piasa's reply.
In September 1978 Billy made a highly publicized trip to Libya with a group of Georgia legislators and businessmen eager to make deals.
Now, compare that with what is reported in the article...
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.
No time frame given for the Tehran visit, but I'm sure it is out there somewhere.

[MonroeDNA]

I now officially despise Jimmy Carter.

I thought he was a good-intentioned, naive, bufoon.

Manchurian candidate.

[Judith Anne]

I despise all Democrats. They are bringing the US into chaos, misery, corruption, and destruction.

I see no help for it. It's everywhere.

[philman_36]

Even rabbits dislike the man...Jimmy Carter Attacked by Killer Rabbit (April 20, 1979)

[Overtaxed]

The older I get, the more I hate Jimmy Carter, too.

...and the more I love that rabbit.

[XHogPilot]

bump

[dalereed]

He should have been tried for treason and executed, it's never too late!

None of the problems in the middle east would exist today if our government had supported the shaw (we did until Carter) instead of undermining him.

[XHogPilot]

if our government had supported the shaw

I'm guessing you meant Shah. The Iranian Revolution is THE event of the 20th century for which the world has yet to come to grips. Carter's role in the Revolution is far greater than the appropriately maligned Chamberlain of WWII fame. Carter did not look the other way - he forced the Shah to abandon Iran to the freakish hell of Islamic Fascism. Thanks to Hezbolah, that facism has spread through the entire middle east, destroying Lebanon, providing the Baath Party of Syria & Iraq a reason to exist, and destroying any legitimate hope of Palestinian Arabs to find a home. Thanks Jimmy.

[grimalkin]

I can't say anything about the validity of this piece, but my Dad always told me how nasty Carter (peanut boy) was while I was growing up. I never knew the full extent of it until I got older and (hopefully) wiser. I was still too little when Carter was president to remember anything. My Dad has lots of things to say about this particular individual and none of them flattering.

[Eala]

my Dad always told me how nasty Carter (peanut boy) was while I was growing up.

Figures the liberal press would have painted him as an angel, then -- or at least choirboy.

[Arthur McGowan]

Under Carter, judicial nominees were asked point-blank: How will you rule on abortion? What do you think of Roe v. Wade? Carter was the first really aggressive baby-killer in the White House. He appointed Sarah Weddington of Roe fame to the Office of Public Liaison. Anne O'Donnell, president of Right-to-Life of Missouri during the Carter years, told me years ago that she wrote a letter to Weddington each and every month of the Carter presidency, asking for a meeting of pro-life leaders with Carter. Weddington never answered a single letter.

I have no trouble believing that a pharisaical, pseudo-Christian, crypto-Communist Tartuffe like Carter would be above pushing a little kickback scheme for his Georgia friends.

Carter is a moral abortion of a human being.

[Andyman]

You are correct sir!