Posted on 04/17/2008 12:17:25 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Lieberman: Carter Is 'Naive' at Best
Thursday , April 17, 2008
Former President Jimmy Carter met another top Hamas official Thursday in a Cairo hotel and planned to meet more officials in Syria Friday, drawing the ire of dozens of U.S. lawmakers.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., told FOX News that "at best, President Carter is being naive" in trying to negotiate with avowed terrorists. "There is a long list of people who thought they could reason with dictators and killers, going back to Neville Chamberlain and Hitler in the 1930s, but it has been shown to be absolutely wrong."
Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., told FOX News that she advocates revoking Carter's passport and supports a measure to withdraw all federal funding from his Georgia-based institution, the Carter Center.
"We have a policy in this country about Hamas and he is deliberately undermining that policy," Myrick said. "Why should we support his center when he will not support his government?"
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
An 83-year-old ex-President who has been on the world stage for over three decades expressing those views can be nothing but senile.
I’m thinking “at Worst” is a whole lot worse than “stupid”. I’d say “senile”, but he was pretty much that way when he was in the WH. Nope, I’m thinking more in the line of “character flaw”.
He did win the Nobel Peace Prize, of course, everybody knew that was intended as a slap at Dubya, and even an unregenerated terrorist like Yasser Arafat enjoyed the same corrupted 'honor'.
Carter and Rosemary are just weird, weird, weird. Totally self-righteous and still pissed off about the American electorate overwhelming dumping them in 1980. The egotism involved is incredible; personally I think he's bonkers/senile.
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The Omega Letter ^ | 1-24-05 | Jack Kinsella
Posted on January 27, 2005 9:32:40 PM EST by hope
"Vincent pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Manhattan Tuesday to being an illegal agent of Saddam in violation of U.N. sanctions on Iraq and related U.S. tax laws. He faces up to 28 years in prison. However, he "flipped" in hopes of a lighter sentence and, Attorney General John Ashcroft said, is cooperating with investigators.
As part of his plea, Vincent testified that in 1996, during negotiations over the "oil-for-food" program, he channeled payoffs to a U.N. official in exchange for favorable influence in the international body. Some of those names are, to say the least, startling.
Among them are former president Jimmy Carter, who met with Vincent and three Iraqi clerics at his home in Plains, Georgia, in September 1999.
The purpose of the meeting, according to a Carter spokesperson, was "to hear their views on the plight of children in Iraq and the impact of the U.N. sanctions on Iraq."
Before the visit, Carter was already on record as opposing sanctions against Iraq. According to the New York Sun, Vincent also allegedly reported on his meetings to Iraqi intelligence officials.
A Saddam-era Iraqi weekly once praised Carter for being 'in sympathy with the suffering Iraqi people' for speaking out against the 'stringent' sanctions imposed on Iraq by the UN at US insistence after the first Gulf War.
The paper claimed Carter had promised to send his wife Rosalynn and his son, Chip Carter, to Iraq to highlight the effect sanctions were having on Iraqi civilians, running the story alongside a photo of Carter and the three Iraqi clerics Carter met with at his home.
The Justice Department said that, as a lobbyist, Vincent met with a number of high-ranking US officials, but refused to identify most of them, citing a policy of withholding the names of people who are involved in a matter under investigation but not suspected of wrongdoing.
(Jimmy Carter's name was evidently NOT among those being withheld by the DoJ)
Jimmy Carter has used his status as a former president to interfere with US foreign policy regarding Iraq, going all the way back to the first Bush presidency.
In November 1990, two months after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Carter wrote a letter to the heads of state of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
Carter urged the countries to drop their support for Bush's proposed military solution, reversing his own 'Carter Doctrine' of the 1970's which stated;
" Any attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such force will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.")" >snip<;
His Presidency was indeed disastrous but I don’t think he was the worst. FDR takes that title, hands down.
He’s not much without a hammer and nails, is he?
“Carter will have a Cabinet position under Obama”.
...like what?! Secretary of Bitterness? Secretary of Traitors? Both?
At worst? His Secret Service detail would arrest him.
GoooooooooooAwayyyyyyyyyyyyyJimmmmmmmmmmmmmmmy, Pleeeeease.
The Dem party should have stopped Carter....but then...they like the distraction and any trouble Carter can make during the Bush Administration...the Dems just love it....
Uh...didn't the peanut negotiate with terrorists before...like Iran...and the hostages....hostages that REAGAN freed.
Secretary of Misery
Remember...Unlike AlGore. Jimmamah did invent something. He did, at least indirectly, invent the quantitation of misery.
Actually, Slick HATES Carter. Carter dumped the Mariel refugee criminal element in Arkansas and when they rioted and got loose out on the streets, civilians had to round them up. Clinton lost his reelection partly due to that and he never forgave Carter for nearly prematurely ending his political career. He was interfering in foreign policy even when Slick was President. Remember the mess in Haiti Carter was sticking his nose into ?
Increasingly, I think what certain highly visible liberals, like the Clintons and Carter, and Walter Cronkite, Al Gore, Paul Simon, etc, have in common is thundering egotism. I mean, this is the kind of arrogance so huge it's rather hard to imagine. They all do their best to put forth a mild, self-deprecating front, but behind it is an absolute conviction that they have the perfect right to mold the world into whatever they want it to be.
>>>Carter will have a Cabinet position under Obama.
If this happens I’m going to start smokin’, drinkin’ and whatever else I need to do to get me through the next 4 years, if I survive....It is a thought that is so repulsive I can’t keep it in my mind.
Sorry, I gotta go puke.
Hillary is starting to look good as the dem candidate and I never thought I would say that.
But he can change! I heard Obama Bin Laden now wears a metal pin of our flag on his lapel... (sarcasm)
hostages that REAGAN freed.
That I have heard jimmmmmmy claim HE freed, he actually said it, so I guess he IS delusional.
"We have a policy in this country about Hamas and he is deliberately undermining that policy," Myrick said
LOGAN ACT Prosecution .... it's about damn time.
He did say Jimmuh was naive “at best”. That’s JoeJoe’s diplomatic way of saying he thinks a former president is no different from the average anti-American American.
Patriotism. Theirs. ?
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