Posted on 10/11/2007 12:50:11 PM PDT by Kaslin
The United States tortures prisoners, former President Carter charged on Wednesday.
"I don't think it. I know it," Carter told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in an interview.
"Our country for the first time in my life time has abandoned the basic principle of human rights," Carter said. "We've said that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to those people in Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo, and we've said we can torture prisoners and deprive them of an accusation of a crime to which they are accused."
Carter also criticized President Bush's recent declaration: "This government does not torture people."
"That's not an accurate statement if you use the international norms of torture as has always been honored -- certainly in the last 60 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was promulgated," Carter charged.
"But you can make your own definition of human rights and say we don't violate them, and you can make your own definition of torture and say we don't violate them," Carter added.
Commenting on the Carter remarks, a senior White House official said, "Our position is clear. We don't torture. It's just sad to hear a former president speak like that."
I too remember the Carter years. Let me see... do I trust my last bit of gas to get me 30 miles home or do I take a chance of burning it trying to find a station with gas? I could buy a more efficient car, but the interest rate is around 21%, so that’s out.
The ultimate slap in the face was when my daughter said a couple years ago that Carter was probably her favorite president she could remember because he was so nice and worked with the Habitat for Humanity...Oh Boy did that set me off.
It's been an 'unwritten' agreement forever.
To my knowledge the only 2 ex-Presidents to break the unwritten rule are Carter and Clinton.
Speaks to their character doesn't it.
Technically, Carter was never a peanut farmer. He held government quota for growing peanuts which he hired out to the real peanut farmers.
He is still torturing us!!
How much longer must we put up with his insanity?
They shoot horses, don’t they?
This crazy and hateful bastard never tires of trashing America...
I wonder how his holier than thou conscious allows him to be the paid bitch of Saudi Arabia or any banana republic thug?
Frankly, Carter can not meet his maker soon enough to suit me.
Patooey.
This crazy and hateful bastard never tires of trashing America... Ha, wait and see what Hillary will be like if she loses the election.
Rush sub Jason Lewis pretty much said the same thing to lead off the show today - Jimmy Carter should know about torture, after all he tortured the United States for four years as president.
Carter says U.S. tortures prisoners(treason alert)
CNN | October 10, 2007 | CNN
Posted on 10/10/2007 5:44:59 PM EDT by GideonOfWar
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909420/posts
Palestinians Crucify the Holy Land-
“Righteous Swords of Islam” fall on a prominent Christian leader
FrontPageMagazine.com | October 11, 2007 | Robert Spencer
Posted on 10/11/2007 8:12:16 AM EDT by SJackson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909650/posts
Being seen in public proves he has no shame.
Dhimmi Jimmuh is way, way overdue for his monthly high colonic for his brain!
Jimmuh=National Embarassement
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