Nick or Aaron?
Posted on 06/08/2005 6:48:08 AM PDT by Issaquahking
{By BERNARD McGHEE, Associated Press Writer Tue Jun 7, 5:43 PM ET
ATLANTA - Former President Carter on Tuesday called for the United States to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison to demonstrate its commitment to human rights.
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"The U.S. continues to suffer terrible embarrassment and a blow to our reputation ... because of reports concerning abuses of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo," Carter said after a two-day human rights conference at his Atlanta center.
Such reports have surfaced despite President Bush's "bold reminder that America is determined to promote freedom and democracy around the world," Carter said.
About 540 detainees are being held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Some have been there more than three years without being charged with a crime. Most were captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan in 2001 and 2002 and were sent to Guantanamo Bay in hope of extracting useful intelligence about the al-Qaida terrorist network.
Carter said the United States needs to make sure no detainees are held incommunicado and that all are told the charges against them.
Despite his criticism of Guantanamo Bay, Carter said Amnesty International should not have called the prison "the gulag of our time" in a report last month. President Bush has termed the report by the human-rights group "absurd."
Carter said the alleged abuses at Guantanamo Bay could never compare with the forced labor camps operated by the former Soviet Union.
Oh, sure, like we really care what Jimmuh thinks. One of Fox's military experts was on last night, I think it was David Hunt but I'm not sure, and he said he visited there and one prisoner said he'd never been treated as well as he was there and didn't want to go back to his own country. He had clean clothes, three good meals a day, air conditioning! and religious freedom. Tell Jimmuh to go build himself a house on a sinking island somewhere.
Carter is one of history's greatest monsters.
Jimmah? I thought he died yrs. ago! Look, best thing to do would be to send the Wuss to GTMO or Abu Garab, have him stripped naked & put a dog collar on him. Where is that Lindy chick from the Army when we need her?
A good spanking from her wouldn't hurt either. Geeze, I bet you could get major bucks for THESE photos...
Count me in!
"by speaking on a place he knows nothing of."
Huh? Jimmy LOVES Fidel Castro, Cuba, and Communism!!
Gee, maybe Jimmuh can build the detainees a Habitat for Hummanities shack next door to his plantation in Plains
That would be a real demonstration of his commitment to human rights
"He deposed the Shah and turned the country over to the mad Ayatollah's.
He supported Arafat's murderous crusade against Israel.
Carter worked behind the scenes imploring the Arab countries to NOT back the first President Bush in the first Gulf War."
You forgot to mention his appeasement of North Korea and his love affair with Fidel Castro. The guy's a POS.
Carter also calls for double-digit inflation like the good old days when he was at the Helm.
This man is a plain Frenchman. Plains, Georgia's loss, would be France's gain. Go boy, Go.
Only time that gold ever saw $8oo an ounce, and silver saw a record $52 an ounce! It spoke volumes of how this POS tried to sink America.
U.S. calls on Carter to Shut his pie hole.
I think Billy was the smart one in the family...
"The U.S. continues to suffer terrible embarrassment and a blow to our reputation..." Yeah. Because of his continued miserable existence.
"The U.S. continues to suffer terrible embarrassment and a blow to our reputation ...."
Let's set the clock back to 1979 and the Iranian "embarrasment".
I wonder who the president was then?
Someone should stick to building houses and talking to Playboy.
Great!! Shut down Gitmo and send all the prisoners to Jimmy's presidential library in Plains Ga.
Nick or Aaron?
I call for a congressional resolution to put a sock in Carter's mouth. Aren't there a bunch of actual mortgage-qualified, pseudo poor people he can help build houses for?
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