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.
Why India?
I think his doctor should declare him incompetent and have him confined to Plains, and order him to stop meddling in the affairs of our government. He had his turn and he failed miserably.
The media will continue to report his stupid remarks as long as it supports their liberal ideology and embarrasses President Bush. No other living ex-President has ever meddled and criticized their predecessor like Carter and Clinton have. Both show a complete lack of class, and, unfortunately, they are both from the South.
In his book, he mentions a meeting that Gromyko had with Jimmy Carter in 1977. Afterwards, he asked Gromyko how the meeting went. Gromyko scowled, "Read the cable!" Then he smiled and said, "He thinks that we're just like another Western democracy. I think in the end, we're going to get him to agree to a lot of things that we want."
The U.S. called on Carter to shut his piehole 25 years ago and he still hasn't gotten the message. How smart could he be?
I've been looking at the link for this thread all morning knowing that someone else would have already written the exact same thing I was thinking. I was right. Kudos.
Should be successor, not predecessor! Must be having ore senior moments.
"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."
Since these murderers are supposedly operating outside the bounds of international statecraft, let their organization leaders (i.e bin Laden, zaqarwi) step forward and prove their innocence and negotiate their release. Otherwise, let Bush and team handle their unique imprisonment. As is in all wars, when this one is over, only then should the conditions of release be discussed. Whether it is 3 years or 10 years. These guys are not represenative of typical drivebys in LA, therefore their so-called rights are not parallel. These are enemy prisoners of war. That is why this is legal. Their unleashed idiocy has brought it on themselves.
If Carter is so worried about their internment, let him build a camp in Georgia and run a anti-recidivism program based on peanut shelling and canning billy beer, and the discuss the nutritional value of pork rinds. Oops, belay that on the pork rinds. Might offend someone.
Carter is still trying desparately to counter the prevailing school of thought that he was, in fact, the worst president of the 20th century and possibly all time.
Hey Jimmuh, let me be the 50th person on this thread to ask you to STFU!
I still call on the US to shut down Carter.
Is this the same moronic Carter than gave his approval of the election of a dictator in Venezuela? Is this the same buffoon Carter that has signed the Venezuelian people over to a man who doesn't care about human rights?
I think it's time that Carter is put in a small room with nice padded walls and a large section of duct tape over his mouth.
Carter's brain shut down a long long time ago....
Former President WHO???? Ohhhhh, NOW I remember.......21% prime rate, double digit inflation, hostages in Iran, aborted rescue mission, Afghanistan invaded by Soviets, Panama Canal giveaway, establishment of Dept Of Education, malaise, lusting after other women in his heart.....
U.S. to Shut Down JIMMY CARTER
...........and eat goobers! *~*
What a fool that old man is. If I were as bad a President as he was, I'd hide my face in shame, but fool's know no shame.
I apply the Ted Kennedy Rule to anything Carter says/does:
If he is for it, then I'm against it; and visa-versa.
and those dasterdly gas lines......odd/even days.
Yet somehow he got ranked as one of the 100 greatest Americans on the History Channel. Matt Lauer even called him the go-to-guy to certify the validity of elections.
why is he still taking up our breathing space?
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