Posted on 07/30/2005 2:01:59 PM PDT by nuconvert
Carter: Iraq War is 'Unjust'
Saturday, July 30, 2005
BIRMINGHAM, England — Former President Jimmy Carter said Saturday the detention of terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base was an embarrassment and had given extremists an excuse to attack the United States.
Carter also criticized the U.S.-led war in Iraq as "unnecessary and unjust."
"I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A.," he told a news conference at the Baptist World Alliance's centenary conference in Birmingham, England. "I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts."
Carter said, however, that terrorist acts could not be justified, and that while Guantanamo "may be an aggravating factor ... it's not the basis of terrorism."
Critics of President Bush's administration have long accused the U.S. government of unjustly detaining terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base on the southeastern tip of Cuba. Hundreds of men have been held indefinitely at the prison, without charge or access to lawyers.
"What has happened at Guantanamo Bay ... does not represent the will of the American people," Carter said. "I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people."
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Carter's Presidency was a disgrace to the USA.
Who cares what he says?
I have three words, Jimmy: Oil For Food.
I think folks like Carter are the embarrassment. Imgine this line of thought in World War 2.
Refusing to help the Shah was unjust.
Now shut up already.
Like they need any more excuses, other than "You're an Infidel?"
Actually, I would say he is pretty shrewd. After all how else could an extreme America-hater become President of the United States?
He needs to go home, his fellow villagers miss their idiot.
Sounds like some sick liberal idiot. Not an ex-president. Disgusting. I guess he really enjoyed sitting next to Michael Moore at the DNC convention.
Jimma
Why dont you just hurry up, go somewhere and die??
If we thought his foreign polcy ideas were so hot he'd have been a two term President.
Usually it doesn't matter. One of the few times it probably did was his quick certification of the Chavez recall election.
Damn skippy, Jimmy. I was expecting more.
Simple. He ran against Jerry Ford.
Why won't Jimmah' just shut up.
Why would anyone care what this buffoon thinks?
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