Posted on 08/29/2006 10:48:35 PM PDT by ncountylee
For an event that would turn a page in American history, former president Jimmy Carter has agreed in principle to host former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami for talks during his visit to the United States starting this week.
Carter's term as president was dominated by the rupture in relations after the 1979 Iranian revolution and the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, where 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days until the day he left office.
Iranians made the overture for the meeting, and the Carter Center in Atlanta is working on the possible timing, said Phil Wise, the former president's aide.
"President Carter, in his role since leaving the White House, has made his office and services and center available to basically anybody who wants to talk. He believes that it is much better to be talking to people who you have problems with than not to, and that's the approach he takes now," Wise said. "I can confirm that President Carter is open to a meeting if the former president of Iran would like to have one."
Despite mounting tensions between Washington and Tehran over the latter's nuclear program, the Bush administration issued a visa for Khatami yesterday, as well as for about a dozen family and staff members, for a visit lasting about two weeks, the State Department confirmed. Khatami is expected to arrive in the United States tomorrow.
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There he goes again. The man will do anything that hurts America.
Maybe Jimmy'll convert to Islam while they're here to make them feel totally welcome. That would be the Christian thing to do.
There's no fool, like an old DemonRat fool.
NSA ...do ur thang.....
Why is Khatami being allowed to visit?
He should be denied a visa.
If Carter wants to kiss his ass, he can go to Iran.
And stay there.
The senile ol' fart thinks he's going to get US citizens held hostage in Iran freed.
Here we go again... the biggest fool in American diplomacy is off to try to screw the things up again. He will try to appease these lunatics.
There should be a rule against ex-presidents meddling into international diplomacy after they leave the office...
Loony Toones.
What sort of liquor is a product of peanuts???
Oh that worked so well last time.
George Will was right again:
Jimmy Carter actually is an even worse former-president than he was a president!
And that's really saying something.
Where's the Easter Bunny when you need him?
Um, FORMER president.
He's just another overpaid retired American citizen now, he has no more standing to hold these talks than I do.
Somebody PLEASE tell him to sit down STFU!
Whatever pronouncement comes out of Ol' Peanut's mouth after his meeting with Khatami is going to be a humdinger.
The headlines will be interesting. We should have some real fun in a few days.
yitbos
In 1979, 444 days before the American public threw the fool out on his kiester! Only became a moderate islamofascist when the commies told him to go away.
That might be true in some cases, but I'd rather they didn't talk with a socialist idiot like yourself, Mr. Carter.
It was once upon a time that U.S. presidents displayed the daily prestige and cognizance of the office of president not only when in it, but also out of it. Principally, criticism of current occupants of the White House was most often relayed privately, and was rarely seen on the op-ed pages of any major news organs. Sadly, former President Carter has deferred to pageantry instead of principle, an apt conclusion for a man whose presidency was more caricature than commanding.
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