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.
Jimmy Peanut Carter is a bozo alert!!
Not only did Carter force his way into the North Korean crisis in 1994 (the Clinton administration didn't want him, and initially was more ready to at least appear tough), but Carter was abjectly servile to North Korea's agenda, pressed for a "resolution" to the crisis that would give North Korea everything it wanted without any real controls, and lied repeatedly in public in order to sway the course of the crisis toward his preferred resolution. Carter was not some even-handed negotiator but rather proved to be a lying shill for North Korea under the guise of pursuing "peace for our time:"
(1) When still in Korea Carter announced on CNN that the crisis was "over" before the Clinton WH had even had a chance to be briefed on the supposed "results" of Carter's negotiations, i.e, the Peanut-brain was publicly pressuring his own gov't to cave to North Korea on his terms (Carter later claimed he had merely mis-spoken about the crisis being "over" so soon, but no one who is supposed to be versed in high-level negotiations can be allowed to "mis-speak" on such a fundamental matter);
(2) There was another point when Carter made a completely false public pronouncement in order to pressure the USA to cave....
(3) When meeting back home with Clinton officials, Carter rejected an attempt to get him to keep his "report" within the administration and insisted that he would issue whatever pronouncements he wished through his Carter Center mailing list, etc. so that he could spin things his way and exert more pressure on his own government.
(4) Everyone should read the letter that Carter wrote to the North Korean dictator (Kim Jong-Ill's papa, who died later that year). It is unbelievably fawning and servile, even for "diplomacy".... showing the dark and servile heart of Jimmy Carter when he is trying to advance his candidacy for the Nobel Fools' Prize. The letter was reprinted in a book I was thumbing through in the bookstore the other day. I couldn't bear to buy the book because it is such a groveling apologia for Jimmy Carter by one of his main lackeys (see link below). In this letter Carter grovels to Kim Jong-Ill's papa even says he (Carter) hopes that Kim Il-Sung's "dream" of a united Korean nation will be achieved!!!!! That's right, I couldn't believe it, a former US president actually telling the North Korean despot that they share a dream of a united Korea....... of course, any moron should know that the terms on which North Korea could achieve a "united" Korea are not the terms acceptable to South Korea or the USA. Jimmy Carter is truly a servile, grovelling peacenik weasel who coddles the world's worst dictators.......
Whatever malady he suffers from it has been a lifelong affliction.
re: my (2) above -- I meant to add that the other point at which Carter publicly pressued the US gov't and openly undermined attempts to deal forcefully with North Korea in 1994 was when Carter publicly stated in the midst of the crisis that the US effort to get UN sanctions against North Korea was dead. That's right, just in the midst of the crisis, when US policy was to push sanctions in the Security Council as at least one feeble attempt to pressure N. Korea, Jimmy Carter sought to remove even that "stick" so that he could snuggle up to the North Korean despot.
[no other government was going to continue to support the sanctions effort when a former US president supposedly in the lead on working through the crisis had already said publicly that sanctions were dead -- Carter knew exactly what he was doing when he sought to undermine all efforts to increase pressure on North Korea. Jimmy Carter is leftist weasel scum!]
yes
"at least we would still have grampa carter telling us that is is because we are spoiled and we really need 'buck up'."
it kind of brings the parallel of the "beloved leader of north korea" to mind;
Dial 911!
Bingo!
Why should we have to choose?
"Carter on Korea: senile or deluded?"
BOTH!
Carter's like Clinton - he's searching for a legacy that doesn't exist. As I've said before, Jimmah must have been pea green with envy at the lavish honors and sincere mourning felt when Ronaldus Magnus left us - and knowing that in the end, his death will barely cause of ripple. A failed man, a failed presidency, a failed diplomacy. Yes, he won the Nobel Peace Prize - but that accolade lost its luster the day Yassir Arafat put the word "laureate" next to his name.
And he was awarded the NPP for his diplomatic handling of North Korea's nuclear situation - which is now, of course, a disaster. But blame Bush for this, Jimmah - I'm sure the tin foil brigade still believes in you.
I suspect Carter was paid off.
We know this how ? Are there documents or anything to back this up ?
He was saying stuff like this 30 years ago so it can't be senility.
I console myself with the thought that he carried Georgia overwhelmingly, so my vote really didn't make a difference one way or the other.
Been kicking myself ever since - I was too young to know what a horrible governor he had been and how much everybody who worked for him hated him. I heard all about that later . . . < blush >
I disagree. Carter is far more dangerous than Clinton.
Clinton's actions were driven by personal gain and long-term effect on his "legacy."
Carter's actions both in office and after leaving have been to detriment of American interests. Just about every foreign policy problem we have in the world today can be traced to Carter.
I believe that Clinton only cares about himself, therefore he neither loves nor hates America. Carter on the other hand, I believe truly hates America and has been assisting our enemies in working to destroy us for at least thirty years.
Senile, delusional, stupid, bitter, arrogant, you name it, jimmy's got it.
Excuse me Mr. Carter, but NK was evil before President Bush called them out, and anyone with at least half a brain already knew this. Which means you must have less. You were surely a Half-A$$ed president.
It's worse than people know..... not only did Carter thrust himself into an OBSTRUCTIVE effort to stop the Clinton WH from turning the screws on North Korea, but Carter actually LIED to both the Clinton WH and the public in order to carry his "negotiations" to the conclusion he desired. Here is a highly sympathetic account from one of Carter's weasel State Dept. buddies of the time:
My father, a life-long GA resident, voted for Cottah, both as Gov and as Prez.
It is/was the only time he ever voted for a Democrat and I know he did, as I took him to the polls and was allowed to assist him in the booth.
But he will not admit to it, today.
He is 83 and will go to his grave insisting that he did not vote for Cottah.
There are many, many just like him, hence my remark about how he ever got elected.
I don't think he could get a write-in for dogcatcher in GA now and history will not treat him kindly, except for those blind few from Plains, that will lionize him in spite of everything.
Go figure.
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