Posted on 07/30/2005 8:18:46 PM PDT by ricoshea
Former President Jimmy Carter said today, while in Birmingham, England, the detention of terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base was an embarrassment and had given extremists an excuse to attack the U.S.
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. "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 added that terrorist acts could not be justified, and that while Guantanamo "may be an aggravating factor ... it's not the basis of terrorism."
"What has happened at Guantanamo Bay ... does not represent the will of the American people," Carter said. "I'm embarrassed about it, I think it's wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people."
Carter, who won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, has been an outspoken critic of the Iraq war from the beginning. But it is highly unusual for former presidents to criticize war policies of their successors while abroad.
"I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false," he said.
This man is clueless, a dupe and a FOOL.
Dixie Chick.
Don't bother coming back Jimmah!
Title should be changed to "Iraq war 'unjust,' says Carter, a broad"
Jimmah's senile ramblings don't represent the views of the American people.
This is true, but the terrorists are doing their deeds so they can get go to GITMO (Club Gitmo), and have a better life than they do in the sands of the Middle East.
Go to a foreign country and trash the U.S.- Jimma does it, Bubba does it, all the liberal rats do it, it's just plain low class and they're all a bunch of boorish trash.
Tell us oh great Jimmy how to deal with Muslim extremists.
Sure wish all of us were as smart as he. /MUCHO SARCASM.
Carter is the disgrace!
Way to support the troops, Jimmy.
Let's see, no prisoner has died at Gitmo; millions of Iraqis have been liberated and are right in the middle of developing a constitution. These same people braved the intimidation and threats from murdering terrorists to cast a ballot and dip their finger in ink, this ex-president (ex FAILED president) is obviously mentally deranged, what a goober.
Perhaps he should open his Sunday school to some terrorists. I'm sure singing a few "kumbayas" would end world terrorism.
Jimmy Carter, Walter Cronkite, and Helen Thomas - 3 peas in a pod.
May God give President Bush the strengh to put up with these dolts and not line them up and shoot them.
Exile him to Bumphuk, Egypt.
Peanuts for brains.
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