Carter's Trail of Disaster ... NOT Bush's Fault!(May 13, 2002 Newsmax article by Christopher Ruddy)

Newsmax ^ | 5/13/02 | Christopher Ruddy

[Jo Nuvark]

Jimmy Carter is off this week to save Cuba. With Carter on the loose, the American public needs to watch out. It seems that almost wherever he goes and whatever positions he pushes, Jimmy Carter leaves a wake of devastation and disaster. Carter, we should note, has been cozying up to North Korea for years. He helped the U.S. and the communist country come to agreement during the Clinton years to defuse a tense situation over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

[Jo Nuvark]

You might enjoy this from Venus Project.

Rôle of President Jimmy Carter Emerging in Illegal Financial Demands on Shah of Iran
By Alan Peters - Monday, March 15, 2004

http://www.venusproject.com/ecs/jimmy_carter_irans_king.html

[Jo Nuvark]

LOL! I get it. I also need to catch up on "rabbit" events. Snork!

[Neenah]

Under the wacko deal Carter arranged, the U.S. would stop complaining about Korea's nuclear weapons program as long as the U.S. gave aid to North Korea and helped the communists build more modern nuclear reactors.

The U.S. was well on the path to doing this when the new Bush administration sounded the alarm and immediately stopped the cockamamy plan dead in its tracks. North Korea was not cooperating with the U.S. to stop its weapons program, but we should continue helping them to build nuclear reactors. Make sense? Of course not. But that's Jimmy Carter for you.

It's also Jimmy Carter the hypocrite. Carter has always claimed to be the champion of human rights worldwide. Yet North Korea is one of the most, if not the most, repressive regimes on the planet. The Stalinist nation is headed by a young madman named Kim Jong-il. Kim likes to watch American movies like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and then act out his fantasies on his own citizenry. Millions of North Koreans are starving at any given time.

Does Carter have much to say about this? Of course not. North Korea is an enemy of the U.S., so Carter goes easy on them. When he met Kim, Carter didn't criticize him – he kissed him! But there is nothing new here. The media would have us forget Jimmy Carter's presidential record. But I won't.

Remember Carter's human rights program, where he demanded the Shah of Iran step down and turn over power to the Ayatollah Khomeini? No matter that Khomeini was a madman. Carter had the U.S. Pentagon tell the Shah's top military commanders – about 150 of them – to acquiesce to the Ayatollah and not fight him. The Shah's military listened to Carter. All of them were murdered in one of the Ayatollah's first acts. By allowing the Shah to fall, Carter created one of the most militant anti-American dictatorships ever.

Soon the new Iranian government was ransacking our embassy and held hostage its staff for over a year. Only President Reagan's election gave Iran the impetus to release the hostages. I believe Carter's decision to have the Shah fall is arguably the most egregious U.S. foreign policy mistake of the last 50 years. [Former President Bush's decision to allow Saddam Hussein to stay in power is a close second.] With the Shah gone, the whole region was destabilized.

The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan; no doubt a direct link to the rise of the Taliban can be traced to this invasion. Iraq also took advantage of the Shah's departure to invade Iran. A long war followed that helped make Saddam's Iraq a great Middle Eastern power. And decades after Carter's ignominious act, Iran is still bent on destroying America.

President Bush named it one of the three nations in the "axis of evil." Iran is developing both nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver these weapons to its enemies. We can thank Jimmy Carter for all of this. Since Carter left the presidency, he has had little to say about the human rights abuses in Iran. Why should he? Iran opposes the U.S. Instead, he has focused his attention on Israel, America's lone democratic ally in the Mideast. Recently, Carter suggested that the U.S. should cut off aid to Israel, so angry was he after Israel sought to defend itself in the wake of suicide bombings.

Fair enough. But what has Carter said about Arab or Muslim countries that have had long records of human rights abuse – Syria or Libya or Iran or Iraq? Not much. One reason may be money. As NewsMax's Dave Eberhart reported recently, Carter and his Carter Center foundation are recipients of millions of dollars of Arab money. (See: Carter's Arab Funding May Color Israel Stance.) So I give Carter his due. At least he is not a hypocrite in one sense. He is good to the dictators and butchers who give him money.

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[Uncle Meat]

Jimmy Carter -- The Worth President of the 20th Century.

Brother Billy at his sloppy drunkenest could have done a better job as president than Jimmah.

[Jo Nuvark]

Thank you for the hostage link.

That man is a menace. I'm ashamed to admit I voted for him. Not because I was on drugs or ill informed, but because he was "born again". I was a dope.

[Howlin]

We can use all of Newsmax.

[Jo Nuvark]

[ ... We can use ALL of Newsmax ...]

Thank you. Now if I could learn to format... use paragraphs...

[Jo Nuvark]

This site provides Inflation and Employment statistics during the Carter Administration. They may not be accurate, because the governance of this website is in question.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/tguide/index.html

[Howlin]

Actually, the way FR works now, all you have to do is highlight the article, copy it, and paste it in the posting box.

[ThePythonicCow]

We can use all of Newsmax.

Good - thanks.

[Jo Nuvark]

Thanks Howlin. I'll use that technique next time.
This is embarrassing. (head hanging in shame)

[ThePythonicCow]

Actually, the way FR works now, all you have to do is highlight the article, copy it, and paste it in the posting box.

Am I right in thinking that doing this would get the basic paragraph markings (assuming nothing you cut and paste looked like html code), but that it would miss any fancier formatting, active links, images, ...?

I continue to enjoy doing:

1. highlight the portion of the web page you want to post (the article itself)
2. right click menu - View Selection Source [requires FireFox]
3. Control-C to copy from the selection source that comes up
4. Control-V to paste in the posting box.

Often with little or no fixup, that presents the best looking postings. The most common fixup is to convert relative URL's to full URL's, so that links and images work.

Granted ... I'm just showing off my elite geek skills.

Any posting method that preserves paragraph markings beats any posting method that doesn't, hands down.

[ThePythonicCow]

oh -- quit being so hard on yourself ...

You done fine; tell us kibitzers to buzz off.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

That man is a menace. I'm ashamed to admit I voted for him. Not because I was on drugs or ill informed, but because he was "born again". I was a dope.

I've devised a new litmus test: It's if it's a RAT, don't vote for it. There's no such thing as a good Democrat. If they were decent, they'd leave the Democrat party. I'm speaking of RAT candidates, not all Democrats in general. The decent Democrats are just too ignorant to figure out how immoral and corrupt today's Democrat party has become.

[Howlin]

That sounds like VIEW PARTIAL SOURCE on XP's right click (it's an addon.)

But if you just copy and paste, it doesn't bring ANY of the formatting with it; that's the trick; if you're going to use one formatting code, you have to do the WHOLE thing in code.

But if you just type it like you would in MS Word, then select, copy, and paste, it comes out looking just like this I'm typing now -- as I am using no codes.

It even works in the reply boxes; if you copy and paste a link to another article/thread, as long as you don't use any code, the link becomes live automatically.

[Ostlandr]

Thanks! Even using PBS' figures, the misery index was over 20% under Carter. (Ronaldus Maximus didn't take office until January of 1981.)

[Jo Nuvark]

Hey, I feel better already. Hugs.

I don't see any G. K. Chesterton
on your "about" page.

[Jo Nuvark]

[... It's if it's a RAT, don't vote for it ...]

I don't think the ANTI-AMERICAN party should be allowed
to use the title DemocRAT. It's insulting to FDR, JFK, Lieberman
and Billy Graham. Feel free to add to the list.

[RobbyS]

Take away his passport.

[Balding_Eagle]

But my anger is boiling since he pulled that crap at CSK's political rally (oops, I meant funeral).............If I could find out who the corporate donors to his center are, I'd write them all, letting them know I am boycotting them.

There is an even better solution, and it's already being implemented.

Remember the Wellstone Pep Rally and Fundraiser Funeral? The same thing happened there.

What am I talking about? Voters boycotting the Dems at the voting booth. It happened there, and it will happen here too. We should hope the Dems have another icon die just before the 06 elections.

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