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 don’t think it. I know it,” Carter told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in an interview.
It should read, “I don’t think.,” Carter told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in an interview.
Yes Jimmy, the US is guilty of torture...it elected you
Poor Jimmy is having flashbacks of rabbits.
So what if he was a peanut Farmer? What, peanut farmers, or farmers just aren’t smart enough? Left think if you ask me. Carter is a turd, a dictator loving idiotic turd, no matter where he came from, what he used to do, or what he does.
Yeah? So what’s your point?
Is there a bigger, sorrier putz in the western hemisphere than Jimmy Carter?
Not likely.
I’ll tell ya what was torture - suffering through 4 years of Carters presidency - that was torture.
Isn’t there somebody out there that could stick this clown in a nursing home?
I accuse Jimmy Carter of torture. Every mention of his name in the news is torturing me, and many others as well.
He is a constant reminder of the “roaring” 70s, a forgettable decade.
Did he ever explain giving away the Panama Canal? I don’t think I ever heard an explanation.
I am calling him the peanut former from Georgia, because I refuse to call him President and use his name. This is how much I despise this fool
Hous’ about we paint “Mohammed Eats Jimmy Dean’s” on Carter’s flaccid fanny and drop him off in downtown Mecca? Then he can tell us, first hand, how understanding the islamist-in-the-street really is, depending on whether the parts we get back are still attached, one to the other...
I personally went thru 4 years of torture during the Carter Administration.
I like what the Americans said about Benedict Arnold to his face-—
“The British never really trusted Arnold, although he saw some action in the American theater. In December, under orders from Clinton, Arnold led a force of 1,600 troops into Virginia and captured Richmond, cutting off the major artery of material to the southern colonial effort. It is said that Arnold asked an officer he had taken captive about what the Americans would do if they captured Arnold, and the captain is said to have replied “Cut off your right leg, bury it with full military honors, and then hang the rest of you on a gibbet.”
Do they torture? Do you think it or know it?
“I don’t think, I know.” - Moe
“I don’t think you know either.” - Larry
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