Role of US Former Pres. Carter Emerging in Illegal Financial Demands on Shah of Iran

aryamehr.org ^ | March 15, 2004

[operation clinton cleanup]

Why was it such a high priority for Bill Clinton to return Elian Gonzales to Cuba? Seems like there were a lot more important things going on in the world at the time.

[TX Bluebonnet]

Historians and observers still debate Carter’s reasons for his actions during his tenure at the White House, where almost everything, including shutting down satellite surveillance over Cuba at an inappropriate time for the US, seemed to benefit Soviet aims and policies. Some claim he was inept and ignorant, others that he was allowing his liberal leanings to overshadow US national interests.

The British Foreign & Commonwealth Office had enough doubts in this respect, even to the extent of questioning whether Carter was a Russian mole, that they sent around 200 observers to monitor Carter’s 1980 presidential campaign against Ronald Reagan to see if the Soviets would try to “buy” the presidency for Carter.

In the narrow aspect of Carter setting aside international common sense to remove the US’ most powerful ally in the Middle East, this focused change was definitely contrary to US interests and events over the next 25 years proved this.

Good Lord! I always assumed he was incompetent. Now I'm not sure.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Good Lord! I always assumed he was incompetent. Now I'm not sure.

He would not be the first or last incompetent Communist sympathizer.

[nopardons]

bttt

[Peach]

I don't know whether this article is true or not, but Carter wasn't quite as pure as he led the country to believe.

Some tidbits I learned about Carter this year from a few books:

AMERICAN EVITA
(Hillary Clinton’s Path to Power)
Christopher Anderson

Bill Clinton ran Carter’s presidential campaign in Arkansas. Hillary took a leave from the University to become Carter’s deputy campaign director in Indiana. Carter rewarded Hillary for her help in Indiana with an appointment to the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), a federally funded nonprofit organization established by Congress. When asked during her Senate confirmation hearing whether the Rose Law Firm would recuse itself from cases involving organizations that received $$ from the LSC, she would NOT say yes.

While she continued to rack up fees at her Arkansas law firm, Hillary oversaw the LSC budget that swelled from $90m to $321M – money that was used, among other things, to try to defeat California’s tax-cutting Proposition 9, get Medicare to pay for welfare recipient’s sex change operations and support legal efforts in Michigan to give standing Black English (Phonics) as a separately language.

In the final days of the Carter administration, the LSC would frantically dole out $260M in taxpayer funds to keep the money out of the hands of the incoming Republican appointees. The General Accounting office would issue a report on the LSC under Hillary Rodham and conclude that “many of the people associated with it are uniquely reprehensible.”

When Bill was Governor of Arkansas, he was not prepared for Carter’s decision to relocate 20,000 Cuban refugees – primarily mental patients and convicts who had been shipped by Castro to the US, as part of the notorious Mariel boat lift – to Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, for resettlement. A political bombshell was in the making. Furious that they had been betrayed by their friend from Georgia, Hillary urged Bill to call the WH and demand that they rescind the order. The WH refused to rescind it and Bill flew into one of his legendary purple-veined tantrums.

The Real Jimmy Carter
Steven F. Hayward

Carter told his biographer, Douglas Brinkley, that American foreign policy restrictions "did not apply to me." That is, of course, not correct. When he went to the Middle East in 1986, he sent the State Department a false itinerary that omitted mention of his planned trip to Damascus to see Assad.

$$ from Saudi Arabia helped fund Carter's library. It's a matter of public record, but naturally the Old Media types don't think it's important to mention.

Douglas Brinkley wrote that Carter involved himself in fund raising operations for the PLO. Arafat lost millions in support from Arab nations because they did NOT support Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and Arafat did support it. Carter directly appealed to Saudi Arabia to restore funds to the PLO after the Kuwait matter, even as it became evident through Freedom of Information Act requests that Arafat personally ordered the assassination of two American diplomats in 1973. Arafat also sponsored the Black September militants who hijacked and blew up several passenger airliners in the desert that same year. This obviously did not matter to Carter.

Carter injected himself in the Somalia mess during Clinton's term. When the White House nixed Carter's ambition to get involved, Carter simply invited a Somalian delegation representing the wanted warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid to visit him at the Carter Center in Atlanta. Aidid was the warlord US Army Rangers were hunting in 1993 during the Black Hawk Down incident and his goons killed 17 American soldiers. Carter criticized UN attempts to capture Aidid as "regrettable."

Despite opposition in the State Department and National Security Council, Clinton gave Carter permission to negotiate in the Haiti mess in 1994. The only thing Carter was authorized to negotiate was the departure of Cedras from Haiti and how that would come about. Carter immediately began negotiating his own policy when he arrived in Port-au-Prince and drafted an agreement promising the lifting of US trade embargo and made no mention about restoring Aristide.

Carter called CNN and arranged a live p ress conference to give details of the deal before even informing the White House. It infuriated the Clinton administration, naturally, and was against all protocol and policy.

In the matter of Bosnia and ethnic cleansing, Carter complained that the American public was only getting one side of the story and he actually sided with the chief architect of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, Radovan Karadzic. This was too much for even the liberal media and the New Republic editorialized that Carter was a menace, an indecent farce and suggested that a "statue of the vain, meddling, amoral American fool should stand in every ethnically cleansed square."

There is an entire large section of the book about how Carter undermined the Clinton administration in the North Korea matter and we now find ourselves facing a nuclear armed North Korea as a direct result of Carter's intervention and Clinton's inattention to the matter. Carter personally dropped demands that UN inspections resume and that N. Korea surrender its fuel rods. Kim agreed to Carter's proposal, naturally. In addition, Carter never mentioned Kim's human rights violations in the last century. It's an astounding section of the book and condemns Carter in the strongest words possible.

In 1995 Carter phoned Castro which infuriated Clinton and drew an enraged phone call from Gore. Contacting Castro without the approval of the US government was a big no no.

Carter gave four prime time televised speeches to the Cuban people while there and embarrassed both the US government AND Castro ( a double whammy). The details are too long to go into here.

All of the above prompted a Time magazine columnist to write that some of Carter's Lone Ranger work has taken him dangerously close to the neighborhood of what we used to call treason.

Carter also made direct contact with Soviet officials and tried to subvert Reagan's anti-communist policies.

There are numerous instances of when Carter was running for Governor and then President that he used race baiting tactics...on both sides of the fence. At times he seemed to be appealing to racists and at other times he seemed to be calling his opponents racists. There are numerous instances of this from both commercials he ran and flyers he distributed. At the time, he was called the meanest politician in American history. He has since, of course, changed his image with the help of a PR firm.

[Fruitbat]

Carter and Clinton, Mr.Peanut and Mr.Penis ...some days you don't know which was worse

ROFLMAO!!!

I imagine they look about the same however. LOL Perhaps Mr. Penis doesn't have glasses.

[AmeriBrit]

It was the April before the 2000 elections and the commie lefties were yelling loudly for Elian Gonzales to be returned to his Father.
And probably an attempt to show his commie friends how powerful he was by building bridges to Cuba, one of the world’s few remaining communist dictatorships.
Although he wasn't able to run again, the Monica scandal was still very fresh in everyones mind which wasn't good for the Democratic party or his Vice-President, the 'Bore'

I doesn't sound like he's had any freedom at all to be just a little boy since he was sent home.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17825

[Texas Eagle]

Speaking of The Great Peacemaker. Maybe President Bush should consider parachuting Carter into a French suburb.

[Libloather]

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

Carter has a thing for sidling up to scary, backwards dictators.

[MarkL]

Well, I think that we can see where Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton learned the tactics that they now use...

Mark

[operation clinton cleanup]

Thanks for that "lost" history Peach. Seems there is a lot more to Jimmy Carter than anyone could ever imagine.

[JBGUSA]

BTTT - Everyone should know that this pious piece of cr@p was disgusting.

[kalee]

I see it now a Mt Rushmore look alike with the worst, Grant, LBJ, Carter and Clinton.
Too bad I can't do photoshop.

[prairiebreeze]

As Peach mentioned, Steven Hayward outlines in his book the pattern of vindictiveness, ruthless conniving and dirty tricks that Carter used frequently in politics. Something like this wouldn't surprise me in the least.,

Hayward insists that the current level of moon-battery and looney-tune elements of the Left can trace their roots straight back to president Peanut.

[JBGUSA]

Prairiebreeze - "As Peach mentioned, Steven Hayward outlines in his book the pattern of vindictiveness, ruthless conniving and dirty tricks that Carter used frequently in politics. Something like this wouldn't surprise me in the least"

Remember his constant, repetitive statements that he would "not make an issue of Watergate" or he would "not make an issue of Chappaquick." Sort of like saying: "Please ignore the hippopotamus".

Kalee - "I see it now a Mt Rushmore look alike with the worst, Grant, LBJ, Carter and Clinton.

Delete Clinton (because of welfare reform), add Nixon (because of Red China, Moscow, EPA, OSHA, wage and price controls, thugs) and I would agree.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Jimmy Carter building his legacy, one house at a time.

[JBGUSA]

Operation Clinton Cleanup - "Jimmy Carter building his legacy, one house at a time."

His real damage in hiso post-Presidential legacy is in sanitizing corrupt elections, and enabling North Korea to go nuclear, by providing Clinton with political cover for appeasement. Biblical Christian that Carter? Puke.

[operation clinton cleanup]

JC was on Russert last night, Tim tossed softball after softball and I don't think his presidency ever came up (of course I could not stomach to watch the whole thing).

[AmeriBrit]

Thankyou Peach for this post. Another one for the ever growing files.