OIL 'SPY' LOBBIED CARTER

New York Post ^ | 1/21/05 | NILES LATHEM

[Mo1]

FYI ..

[Lord Nelson]

As an Adam Smith, laisse faire, ultra-capitalist, what offends me is how the West is treated like parasites for OUR investment in Middle East oil production. Yes, the resource is theirs, but if it wasn't for the West and it's billions upon billions of investment, that black gold would still be deep under the sands and Arabs would be trading their daughters to make ends meet. Iran of course STOLE English and American corporate property when the Ayatollah came into power - although the PC word for this theft is "nationalization". Cuba did the same of course - a nation that was nothing without US investment and is nothing again since the Soviets have withdrawn their subsidies.

The fact we have to ignore Saudi vices to keep the peace irks me ever the more. Ignoring their role in financing and distributing terrorist worldwide.

[Lord Nelson]

I hope Graham opposed sanctions out of principle and refused to take the bribe. Sanctions are no solution - clearly they only hurt those already being hurt and have ZERO chance of removing someone like Saddam from power.

As far as Carter. He is either deluded or a big fake. I know Christian friends that just think he was the greatest thing since canned potatoes.

[Darkwolf377]

I'm sure the folks who scream "Haliburton!" at every opportunity will be coming down on Saint Jimmy of the Dictators for this. Suuuuuuure.

[Dog]

Told you so....:-)

[Coldwater Creek]

I voted for Carter for the same reasons as your Christian friends. On the surface I thought that we had something in common, born again Christians, same denomination. etc., but it didn't take long to realize that I had made a huge mistake. The bright side is that I have never voted for a Democrat for president again.

[OldFriend]

Carter worked behind the scenes AGAINST the first Gulf War. Evidently he saw nothing wrong with Saddam Hussein invading Kuwait.

Carter also befriended Arafat and wrote his speeches for him along with giving him advice on how to dress so he would be more appealing.

[mewzilla]

I wonder if any Oil For Food money ended up at the Carter Center?

[clyde260]

"I wonder if any Oil For Food money ended up at the Carter Center?"

I guess that's the $64,000 question?

This bum has worked tirelessly to undermine this country to its enemies.

[AnAmericanMother]

Welcome to the club.

It was my first election and I was young and foolish. That is my excuse, and I'm sticking to it.

In retrospect, there were signs that he had problems - his micro-managing while he was governor here, the fact that friends of my parents' didn't like him - but I was 18 and a college freshman out of state, and I wasn't on the ball like I should have been.

Do those "Christian friends" know that he has renounced the Southern Baptists and quit his old church?

[satchmodog9]

I would be able to die a happy man.

[Coldwater Creek]

Probably the same friends that were so delighted that Bill Clinton and Al Gore, two Southern Baptist were going to be in the White House. I have family that were So. Baptist missionaries for 40 years and they loved Bill Clinton and hate George Bush. It really hurts my heart.

[Lord Nelson]

Congratulations for learning from that experience? Of course I was not old enough to vote in the late 70s - and I'm not American.
Goes to show being a Christian is great - but not a good enough reason in itself to serve the nation. I know there are many Christians who hold to the immoral belief of pacifism. I guess this came out of the 60s and 70s.

[Lord Nelson]

You must be kidding me. How can a Christian promote an unrepentent murderer? Methinks Carter may be simply a fake - like Sharpton and Jackson.

[Lord Nelson]

I think these Christian friends, although well meaning, just are very ignorant when it comes to men of this world.

[AnAmericanMother]

That could well be.

They probably take him at face value, with the Sunday School business and Habitat work and all, and figure he's a "good Christian man." Especially if they don't follow politics.

[OldFriend]

Carter was one of the worst presidents. His domestic policies left us with double digit inflation and double digit interest rates.

His foreign policy expertise was pathetic and I'll not forget the loss of lives in his ill fated rescue plan for our hostages.

[bitt]

our first house in 1979 had a 15.5% mortgage. Imagine that!!!

[OldFriend]

We bought our present house at 13%.......refinanced to 10%, then 7 5/8 and now 4.65.........worse economy since Herbert Hoover, right?