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Former US president slaps down 'subservient' Blair (Peanut head)
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Posted on 08/26/2006 10:14:18 PM PDT by hipaatwo

Former US president Jimmy Carter lashed out at British Prime Minister Tony Blair for being "so compliant and subservient" to the Bush administration in Washington.

"I have been surprised and extremely disappointed with Tony Blair's behaviour," Carter told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper as he promoted his new book "Faith and Freedom."

"I think that, more than any other person in the world, the prime minister could have had a moderating influence on Washington, and he has not," said the 81-year-old former head of state.

He faulted Blair for not having been a constraint on US President George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq in March 2003 -- an invasion which, he said, subverted the fight against global terrorism.

"We now have a situation where America is so unpopular overseas that, even in countries like Egypt and Jordan, our approval ratings are less than five percent," said Carter, who was in the White House from 1977 to 1981.

"It's a shameful and pitiful state of affairs, and I hold your British prime minister to be substantially responsible for being so compliant and subservient."


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MP compares Blair with Charles I, the beheaded monarch

By Anne Alexander

Political Editor.

02 September 2006

A WEST Yorkshire MP has compared Tony Blair with the beheaded 17th century monarch Charles I for refusing to allow Parliament a say on the Middle East crisis.

Jon Trickett MP (Hemsworth) said that events that led up the revolution when the monarch was overthrown by Oliver Cromwell are similar to the recent row over the Middle East crisis.

Mr Trickett has slated Mr Blair for refusing to recall Parliament to allow MPs the chance to debate the conflict between Israel and Lebanon when it was at its height, despite more than 100 demanding the move.

The leader of the left wing Compass group in Parliament accused Mr Blair of hiding behind the ancient Royal Prerogative -- which gives him ultimate powers over war and peace -- to avoid having to answer difficult questions from MPs over his stance on the crisis.

Mr Blair was criticised for not demanding an immediate ceasefire from Israel, instead backing the US.

In an article for left-wing magazine Red Pepper, Mr Trickett describes how Charles I was driven by "religious fervour" and embarked on "wars that are deeply unpopular" which made MPs "increasingly angry about the scale and purpose" and then "sends the Parliament packing for months refusing to let it meet."

And Leeds East MP George Mudie joined in, calling for Mr Blair to "name the date and let's move on."

Mr Mudie said Mr Blair was no longer "leading with dignity"


81 posted on 09/02/2006 12:28:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Saturday, September 2, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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similar topics:

Compliant and subservient: Jimmy Carter's explosive critique of Tony Blair
The Telegraph | 27/08/2006) | John Preston and Melissa Kite
Posted on 08/27/2006 8:07:36 AM EDT by AmericanMade1776
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690746/posts

Former US President Carter 'Disappointed' With Blair [failure to constrain President Bush's.....]
VOA News
Posted on 08/27/2006 10:45:57 AM EDT by Sub-Driver
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690818/posts

Compliant and subservient: Jimmy Carter's explosive critique of Tony Blair (Major GAG Alert)
UK Telegraph | Aug. 27, 2006 | John Preston and Melissa Kite
Posted on 08/27/2006 7:45:38 PM EDT by FairOpinion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691043/posts

Former U.S. President Carter Criticizes "Subservient" Blair
AZCONSERVATIVE | 31 August 2006 | John Semmens
Posted on 09/01/2006 11:31:43 PM EDT by John Semmens
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1694200/posts

and just who does Carter run with?

Thank Blair for terror: Miss England
Metro UK | 09/01/06
Posted on 09/01/2006 11:48:28 AM EDT by presidio9
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1693834/posts

Hezbollah warns Blair: you're not welcome in Beirut (Hurl Alert)
The Times (UK) | August 24, 2006 | Richard Beeston in Beirut and Sam Coates
Posted on 08/23/2006 9:25:40 PM EDT by jdm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688955/posts

meanwhile, from the Conservative side of the room:

Cameron Attacks Blair Over Terrorism Fight (UK)
The Telegraph (UK) | 8-16-2006 | George Jones - Graeme Wilson
Posted on 08/15/2006 9:50:07 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684389/posts


82 posted on 09/02/2006 12:32:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Saturday, September 2, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: scan58

I don't know how the color switch came about myself; I have a real old historical atlas at home with election maps in it, that shows the Republicans as orange and the Democrats as dark green. However, I disagree that we need to reverse the current red & blue. Here's what I wrote about it for my website:

"Apparently liberalism now means the opposite of what it used to mean. Liberals used to be populists; now they're elitists. Whereas they used to favor human rights and the spread of democracy, now they don't care; note their lack of enthusiasm for the recent elections in Afghanistan and Iraq, and how Jimmy Carter went from being the human rights president to the former president who never met a dictator he didn't like. The Democratic Party used to portray itself as 'the party of love'; now, except on the gay-marriage issue, it's the party of hate. Most telling of all, liberals used to embrace change for its own sake, but now they're often afraid to try any new policy, calling it a 'risky scheme.'

Along those lines, it is appropriate that the media now refers to the states that vote Republican as 'red.' Red is the color of revolution, and the vision of a global people's revolution has passed to those who call themselves conservatives. In response the Left has become reactionary, a victim of the Hegellian/Marxist dialectic that once encouraged them to think that history was on their side."


83 posted on 09/03/2006 5:26:56 AM PDT by Berosus ("There is no beauty like Jerusalem, no wealth like Rome, no depravity like Arabia."--the Talmud)
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To: SunkenCiv; snugs

One thing's for sure: if Carter was president now, he would definitely prefer Tony Blair over the prime minister he got on his watch--Margaret Thatcher.


84 posted on 09/03/2006 5:40:43 AM PDT by Berosus ("There is no beauty like Jerusalem, no wealth like Rome, no depravity like Arabia."--the Talmud)
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To: Berosus

That is so true and he would much prefer Cherie to Dennis they would be soul mates. :0)


85 posted on 09/03/2006 5:46:46 AM PDT by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))
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To: Berosus
Red is the color of revolution, and the vision of a global people's revolution has passed to those who call themselves conservatives.

I suppose you could look at it like that. I think they made the switch themselves as a little cosmetic surgery to attempt to change their personna...you know red/communist, etc.

86 posted on 09/03/2006 2:15:58 PM PDT by scan58
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To: hipaatwo

Dear Mr. Blair,
Please accept this sincere apology for the rude crass and unPresidently behavour of Jimmy "the rabbit" Carter.
Here in America we appreciate all the help you and Britain
have given us.
We are so glad jimmy Carter is not in office today although
we wish he hadn't been in office ever.

Yours.
Tet68


87 posted on 09/03/2006 2:20:10 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: SunkenCiv

OH YES! ...We all SHOULD certainly pay attention to everything Jimmy Carter has to say regarding Middle East foreign policy. After all, look how successful HE was in that area when HE was President... allowing Americans to be taken hostage at the embassy (American soil under international law) and held captive (for 444 Days) in Iran - through the duration of his Presidency. ...OH yes, THAT'S certainly 'proven success'. Yes, let's all just listen to Jimmy!

In case you missed it...
http://leatherneckm31.typepad.com/leatherneckm31/2005/week23/index.html

Peanut Farmer and Back Again....

Carter_ara And this week's Ramsey Clark Award goes to Jimmy Carter for his brilliant suggestion that the raghead prison at Gitmo be closed and the rags released, sent to other countries or tried and convicted of something. 

"The U.S. continues to suffer terrible embarrassment and a blow to our reputation ... because of reports concerning abuses of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo," Carter said.

Panties?

So let the bastards go home and get back their jobs on the IED assembly line? Release them to go back and ambush our troops? They are where they are so that we can prevent their terrorism and gain information.

This man used to have his finger on the button.  Thankfully it only took about three years for Mr. and Mrs. America to realize they had made the biggest mistake in the 20th century and bounced his ass in 1980.

You'll recall Carter is the one who ordered the surrender of the Marine Security Detachment in Iran after a bunch of raghead students yelled at the embassy staff. So craven, so gutless, so pathetic was Carter as Commander in Chief, that he helped the Islamomfascists portray the United States as spineless and impotent.

His decision cost a number of American 18 months of their lives, and eight killed in action in the most colossal failure in rescue history. 

Carter wudda f'ed up D-Day.

Not content with merely allowing fellow Americans to be imprisoned, he now wants to Cartercastro put guns back in the hands of the Gitmo ragheads so they can kill our soldiers and Marines.

When it comes to talking like a punk and backing down when the going gets a little tough, Carter is second only to Clinton.

So is it just the current collection of useful idiots and usual suspects in the dem party, or does the malady run deeper?

It's much deeper...

That a Carter or a Biden (Kerry, Gore, Rangle, Pelosi, Boxer, ad nauseum) have any standing at the dais is the fault of that political numbskull who lives next door to you.

Carter cannot helping being who he is any more than Teddy Kennedy or Howie Dean can. It's the people who vote(d) for them.

"But GA, I vote for the man not the party."

Crap.

You vote dem you get the National Education Association, you vote dem you getDnccartermoore  NOW, ACLU, NAACP, NAMBLA, GBLT, NBC, CBS, NPR, ABC, and that fat asshat, Michael Moore. I could go on, but you get the point.

Democrats are... more about death than life (except when it comes to serial killers and child murderers; more secular than of faith; more negative than positive; more pacifist than patriotic; more fearful than bold, and democrats are far more willing to lose this war than win it, and hope that the rags don't come to their house.

I suggest that Carter immediately offer himself up to the rags as a prisoner... it would get him another Nobel Peace Prize and rid us of one of the most annoying dems in history.

June  9, 2005  http://leatherneckm31.typepad.com/leatherneckm31/2005/week23/index.html


88 posted on 09/04/2006 5:03:41 PM PDT by Seadog Bytes (OPM - The Liberal 'solution' to every societal problem. (Other People's Money))
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To: Seadog Bytes

89 posted on 09/04/2006 5:12:34 PM PDT by Seadog Bytes (OPM - The Liberal 'solution' to every societal problem. (Other People's Money))
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
The Britons were smart enough to use the Holy Hand Grenade.

Jimmy, OTOH, well, using the oar was probably the right choice for him...and his detail.

90 posted on 02/19/2016 1:08:27 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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