US violates human rights' [Carter leads international US bashing]

La Prensa ---Panama ^ | 12 de octubre de 2007 | US / AP

[expat_panama]

US violates human rights'
WASHINGTON, US / AP

The former president of the United States James Carter said yesterday that his country torture prisoners, and President George W. Bush created the conditions for engaging in this practice that violates international law and the principles on human rights.

The White House, through a spokesman, reiterated that the United States "does not torture" and "saddened" listen "to a former president speak well."

 

Carter accuses the government of torturing prisoners

AP/Edward Troon

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WASHINGTON, EU/AP

The former president said that the current Vice President Dick Cheney is' a disaster for our country '.
WASHINGTON, US / AP 

The United States government to torture prisoners, denounced former President Jimmy Carter and said that the governor George W. Bush set the conditions for engaging in this practice that violates international law.

"For the first time in my life, our country has abandoned the basic principles of human rights," Carter said to CNN. "We said that the Geneva Convention does not apply to persons (held) in the prison of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and we said that we torturing prisoners and deprive them of the accusation of a crime."

Carter made the statements in connection with the answer given by Bush on Friday of last week to a report published a day earlier by The New York Times, with secret documents from the Department of Justice to support the use of "harsh interrogation techniques." Bush defended the techniques and proclaimed that "this government does not torture people."

Carter noted that the interrogation methods cited by the newspaper, which included blows to the head, simulated drowning and subjection to freezing temperatures- tantamount to torture under "international standards as always been respected, certainly in the last 60 years since was promulgated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. "

In an interview broadcast by BBC on Wednesday, Carter called the vice president Dick Cheney "a radical element that prevented all on his own service in the armed forces."

Carter also said that Cheney is "a disaster for our country" and "exercising too much influence" on Bush.

Cheney spokeswoman, Megan Mitchell, declined to respond to criticism from Carter.

[expat_panama]

Translation by me and Google.

Just when things were calming down, Latin cops are given an excuse to start roughing up Americans again.

[expat_panama]

fyi

[SolidWood]

Carter’s existance is a violation of human rights.

[Coldwater Creek]

There should be no State funeral for this traitor.

[vietvet67]

Two words: Killer Rabbit!!

[ladtx]

Jimmy Carter is a traitor, apostate, betrayer, double-crosser, quisling, recreant, turncoat, collaborationist, collaborator, subversive; conspirator, intriguer, plotter, schemer, defector, deserter, renegade, blabbermouth, gossip, gossiper, informant, informer, rat, snitcher, talebearer, talker, tattler and last but not least a tattletale.

[hershey]

I loathe Carter. Ninth rung in youknowwhere for him.

[Jigajog]

Isn’t there some nursing home in Georgia we can send this bitter dimented old failure to? God, what an embarassment. What are these international standards of behavior he keeps talking about, are they the ones respected by Al Quida, NVA, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Zimbabwe, and the list goes on? Why is this guy still breathing air? Vanity thy name is Carter. From what I have heard even Dems can’t stand this guy.

[Jigajog]

Isn’t there some nursing home in Georgia we can send this bitter dimented old failure to? God, what an embarassment. What are these international standards of behavior he keeps talking about, are they the ones respected by Al Quida, NVA, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Zimbabwe, and the list goes on? Why is this guy still breathing air? Vanity thy name is Carter. From what I have heard even Dems can’t stand this guy.

[Coldwater Creek]

What the spokesman said was it is sad to hear a former President speak like THIS, not WELL.

[cartan]

He's just mad that he didn't get the peace Nobel price a second time, so he's trying harder…

[txroadkill]

[bannie]

Y'know...

any revolution we may someday face might just be due to GOOD people becoming FED UP with being VILIFIED for EVERY-THING they do.

[vaudine]

Roger all that--besides, he is a skunk. I would like to cancel his Pres. pension.

vaudine

[jonefab]

Stupid is as stupid does. Forest Gump’s mom

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Good morning, expat_panama.

I hope this finds you well.

Thank you for the articles.

I just want to get sick every time I see/hear Carter.

I wonder what angle La Prenas has. It has never been exactly pro U.S. They are probably angry with us because we told them that if Pedro Miguel Gonzales doesn’t step down as head of the Assembly there will be no free trade agreement.

By the way, do you know that Gonzales and Torrijos are related?

[uncbob]

And to think that 43% of the voters still voted for this loon in 80

[enough_idiocy]

At most 30 people were tortured under the CIA program as far as we know. Carter is attacking this. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands have been slaughtered and abused in Sudan and he’s playing semantics. This retarded old idiot needs to stop his traitor ways.

[massgopguy]

I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nit wits, half wits, dim wits, vipers, snipers, con men, indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.

[Blennos]

a radical element that prevented all on his own service in the armed forces."

What in blazes does that mean?

I look forward to Mr. Carter's demise as a significant reduction of evil in the world.