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Carter: Iraq War is 'Unjust'
FOX News/AP ^ | July 30, 2005

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: carter; failedpresident; gitmo; hostagecrisis; iran; iranamile; iraq; jimmycarter; killerrabbit; mole; terroristsbestfriend; totalfailure; usefullidiot; worstpresidentever
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1 posted on 07/30/2005 2:01:59 PM PDT by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert

Carter's Presidency was a disgrace to the USA.


2 posted on 07/30/2005 2:02:49 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: nuconvert

World: Carter is a Moron


3 posted on 07/30/2005 2:03:03 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Many Democrats are not weak Americans. But nearly all weak Americans are Democrats.)
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To: nuconvert

Who cares what he says?


4 posted on 07/30/2005 2:03:07 PM PDT by MamaB (mom to an angel)
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To: nuconvert

I have three words, Jimmy: Oil For Food.


5 posted on 07/30/2005 2:03:55 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: nuconvert

I think folks like Carter are the embarrassment. Imgine this line of thought in World War 2.


6 posted on 07/30/2005 2:04:18 PM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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Refusing to help the Shah was unjust.
Now shut up already.


7 posted on 07/30/2005 2:04:29 PM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: nuconvert

Like they need any more excuses, other than "You're an Infidel?"


8 posted on 07/30/2005 2:05:15 PM PDT by Dolphan (It's the 99% of Mohammedans that make the other 1% look bad.)
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To: nuconvert
It is Carter who is an embarrassment to the USA. He always was, is now and ever shall be as long as he lives. Amen, he is not the President.
9 posted on 07/30/2005 2:05:26 PM PDT by wmileo
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To: nuconvert
Hey Carter. Here's a rabbit for you.
10 posted on 07/30/2005 2:05:28 PM PDT by axes_of_weezles (mainstream extremist (Ha))
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To: COBOL2Java

Actually, I would say he is pretty shrewd. After all how else could an extreme America-hater become President of the United States?


11 posted on 07/30/2005 2:05:29 PM PDT by trek
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To: nuconvert

He needs to go home, his fellow villagers miss their idiot.


12 posted on 07/30/2005 2:05:52 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. - John Adams)
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To: nuconvert

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.


13 posted on 07/30/2005 2:06:03 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: nuconvert

Jimma
Why dont you just hurry up, go somewhere and die??


14 posted on 07/30/2005 2:06:09 PM PDT by 76834 (There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.)
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To: dfwgator

If we thought his foreign polcy ideas were so hot he'd have been a two term President.


15 posted on 07/30/2005 2:06:13 PM PDT by the Real fifi
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To: MamaB
Who cares what he says?

Usually it doesn't matter. One of the few times it probably did was his quick certification of the Chavez recall election.

16 posted on 07/30/2005 2:06:42 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: nuconvert
"What has happened at Guantanamo Bay ... does not represent the will of the American people," Carter said.

Damn skippy, Jimmy. I was expecting more.

17 posted on 07/30/2005 2:06:45 PM PDT by Hadean
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To: trek
After all how else could an extreme America-hater become President of the United States?

Simple. He ran against Jerry Ford.

18 posted on 07/30/2005 2:06:54 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: nuconvert

Why won't Jimmah' just shut up.


19 posted on 07/30/2005 2:07:25 PM PDT by Originalist (Clarence Thomas for Chief Justice!!)
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To: the Real fifi

Why would anyone care what this buffoon thinks?


20 posted on 07/30/2005 2:07:40 PM PDT by mothball
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