Posted on 10/16/2006 10:37:28 AM PDT by Graybeard58
According to the newest chapter of the Gospel According to St. Jimmy Carter in The Bible of Liberalism (The New York Times), he and he alone solved the North Korea nuclear crisis in 1994, only to have President Bush screw it up with his "Axis of Evil" declaration in 2002. Not since "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" has the world heard such a crock.
Here's what really happened and why Jimmy Carter is responsible for North Korea acquiring atomic capabilities:
Under Bill Clinton's watch, North Korea reneged on its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and prepared to convert nuclear fuel rods at its facility in Yongbyon into weapons-grade plutonium. While Mr. Clinton sought worthless U.N. sanctions, the Pentagon drafted plans to send U.S. forces to protect South Korea.
But Mr. Clinton chickened out and sent Mr. Carter, who hastily negotiated the Agreed Framework with the North and announced its terms over CNN. Though Mr. Clinton thought the Framework would prove worthless, he signed it on Oct. 21, 1994, just to guild his image as a peacemaker. Within hours, North Korea's violations began. Meanwhile, America spent the next eight years living up to its end of the bargain by delivering copious foreign aid to the North.
While the Clinton administration's attention was distracted by Bosnia and bimbos and Mr. Carter was making the world safe for communist regimes and Islamic terrorists, the North Koreans merrily went about processing their nuclear material. In October 2002, they finally admitted they had centrifuges, which were forbidden under the Framework, for processing enriched uranium. The Bush administration promptly and wisely canceled the feckless Framework, but by then, the damage Mr. Carter had done was irreversible.
Always the appeaser and seemingly eager to prove you can fool some of the people all of the time, Mr. Carter now proposes that America return to the negotiating table: "The simple framework for a step-by-step agreement exists, with the United States giving a firm and direct statement of no hostile intent, and moving toward normal relations if North Korea forgoes any further nuclear weapons program and remains at peace with its neighbors."
Is he senile or just delusional? What should happen next is for Mr. Carter to go back to Plains, Ga., crack a Billy Beer and leave foreign-policy decisions to people unwilling to be the sycophants of communist tyrants.
Here's the Carter Rule: Whatever Mr. Carter wants to do, just do the opposite and you probably won't go wrong!
-Rex
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A: Both
...or just plain evil.
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Senile or Deluded? Yes
Senile or deluded... senile or deluded... senile or deluded... senile or deluded...
Senile or deluded... senile or deluded...
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Why, he's senile, deluded, stupid and a flaming liberal America-hater.
Why would anyone ask?
He's about as relevant as a..., uh, well, let's just say he ain't relevant to nothing.
Period.
I truly don't know how the fool got elected, since I can't find anyone, anyone, that will now admit to voting for the damned panty-waist.
Advanced stages of both.
One (or more) of our cities will glow because of these clowns. Is America stupid enough to elect another Dim?
I don't think Carter is senile, nor deluded. He is just appallingly dishonest as are the rest of his cohorts in crime.
Not only is he both of those, but I would add stupid to the list of his characteristics as well.
"...or just plain evil."
Most folks don't want to believe it, but I think you're right. His behavior with the Chavez election in Venezuela can't be explained any other way. And cumulatively, his record is too consistent to be explained by mere incompetence (which is always the preferred explanation for a politician's actions).
Sanctions? Appeasement or blackmail is what it was - Millions of American tax dollars were sent to the little back-stabbing country through the thieving United Nations......President Bush decided it was time to take an honest stand - which Jimmy Carter would not understand in his little pea brain of Human Rights first regardless of that being also mostly worthless.
Carter isn't deluded or senile, his ego collides with common sense which renders him silly old man not particularly bright in the first place.
President Bush is moving in the right direction, trying hard not to repeat past mistakes – hard in any light when you are dealing with a maniac like Kim Jong-il.
Bingo. At some point, the repeated validation and exoneration of obviously lethal dictators has got to be seen not as simply a difference in political ideology, but as real malice, however he disguises it to himself.
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