Posted on 08/17/2006 7:03:47 AM PDT by ritewingwarrior
"The US and Israel Stand Alone"
Former US president Jimmy Carter speaks with DER SPIEGEL about the danger posed to American values by George W. Bush, the difficult situation in the Middle East and Cuba's ailing Fidel Castro.
SPIEGEL: Mr. Carter, in your new book you write that only the American people can ensure that the US government returns to the country's old moral principles. Are you suggesting that the current US administration of George W. Bush of acting immorally?
Carter: There's no doubt that this administration has made a radical and unpressured departure from the basic policies of all previous administrations including those of both Republican and Democratic presidents.
SPIEGEL: For example?
Carter: Under all of its predecessors there was a commitment to peace instead of preemptive war. Our country always had a policy of not going to war unless our own security was directly threatened and now we have a new policy of going to war on a preemptive basis. Another very serious departure from past policies is the separation of church and state, which I describe in the book. This has been a policy since the time of Thomas Jefferson and my own religious beliefs are compatible with this. The other principle that I described in the book is basic justice. We've never had an administration before that so overtly and clearly and consistently passed tax reform bills that were uniquely targeted to benefit the richest people in our country at the expense or the detriment of the working families of America.
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And it's exactly this view of foreign policy that let the islamic fascist's ideas take hold and grow in the 1970's. Thank you for nothing Democats and Jimmah Carter!
Can we disown him??
democratic party - home of idiots and cowards. run away, little boy. run away.
We had every moral and legal right to go after Iraq. Iraq didn't live up to it's obligations to the cease fire of the Gulf War. We just picked up where we left off--what we should've done the first time. What would you have Bush do, Jimmy? Disarm Hussein with eight helicopters?
I have GOT to read this, just to see how low a man can go to drink out of the MSM trough.
With glasses and a hat he would look like Mr. Planter.
I did 27 years ago. When he said " I give Iran 7 to 10 days to release the hostages" I knew we were in deep trouble!
A poor comparison. Dogs are faithful and have better judgement.
Anyone know where 'Liver-lips' Plains family plot is located?
I've already got the beer rented . . . BdoubleEdoubleRUN.
Road-trip! We should make plans now.
We must be honest...Jimmy was the least capable executive running for president in 1976. His skills over four years left alot to be desired. And we can be truthful in that Bill Clinton was much more talented both as a politican and as a governor. Jimmy can be best described as a fair failure as a president, and would have easily lost even against a Bob Dole candidacy in 1980...and thats saying alot.
There that's more truthful.
Carter's very words prove him unqualified for presidential status. He's an idiot who's never studied American History. If he had he would have known that the wars of 1812, Mexican, Spanish-American, and the declaration against Nazi Germany were all "preemptive" where our "security was not directly threatened"
Carter, you mold on a two-week old yard turd, you mucus gnatbread that festers on a dog's privates in the heat of August, you pustule on a filthy sypthletic, when will you finally die of agonizing pancreatic cancer and get on your way to hell?
I am amazed that liberals are so insane that they fail to see Jimmy Carter as the complete and total failure that he is.
He engouraged terrorists by his cowardice (Iran)
He encouraged communist expansion by his stupidity and duplicity (Afganistan, Central America).
He did not and does not believe in American Exceptionalism ("Malaise")
He destroyed the economy (20% inflation, gas shortages)
He is a traitor (tried to get the USSR to help him win re-election)
He slapped the vets in the face (by pardoning draft dodgers)
He put us at risk of nuclear war (by negotiating a jackassed treaty with N.Korea that they ignored)
I know I missed some things, I was about 12 when he was voted out of office.
Billie was the best of the lot.
Carter: "The fundamentalists (Christian) believe they have a unique relationship with God, and that they and their ideas are God's ideas and God's premises on the particular issue. Therefore, by definition since they are speaking for God anyone who disagrees with them is inherently wrong. And the next step is: Those who disagree with them are inherently inferior, and in extreme cases -- as is the case with some fundamentalists around the world -- it makes your opponents sub-humans, so that their lives are not significant."
So when is Carter going to start realizing that HE is sub-human?
If I go, I hope I have three or four beers.
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