Rice: U.S. Warned Carter Not to Talk to Hamas

fox news ^ | 4/22/2008 | ap

[tobyhill]

KUWAIT CITY — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the Bush administration explicitly warned former President Carter against meeting with members of Hamas, the Palestinian faction that controls the Gaza Strip and which is regarded by the U.S. as a terror group.

[Old Grumpy]

“I did the best I could,” Carter said.

Old man, your best is not, nor has ever been, good enough. Butt out of world affairs.

[kevinm13]

Jimmy Carter was a mistake in 1976 and every time he opens his mouth. He is not an ambassador for the country but a rogue citizen who happens to have some fading recognition among terrorists. No wonder he and his family supports Obama.

Take away the traitor’s passport and not spend another taxpayer red cent on his treasonous rear.

[TomGuy]

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the Bush administration explicitly warned former President Carter against meeting with members of Hamas

That did allot of good.

Where is Carter? Oh yeh, meeting with Hamas. Duh!

[Sig Sauer P220]

Carter, better than anyone, knows that U.S. threats are hollow.

[AFPhys]

Heck: he did the same blasted thing when Clinton was president when he went to N.Korea. I am pretty sure that trip was done in violation to Pres.Clinton’s wishes, and we can see the “fruit” that trip achieved: a faulty “treaty” that basically simply served to “cover” NK’s nuclear program until it was able to come to fruition.

He’s an absolute maroon when it comes to foreign policy - always has been.

[Carl from Marietta]

First she says that they "warned" him. Then she said that they told him...

"I just don't want there to be any confusion," Rice said. "The United States is not going to deal with Hamas and we had certainly told President Carter that we did not think meeting with Hamas was going to help"

Well which is it Ms. Rice, did you warn him or did you tell him it wouldn't help? I'm confused.

[blackdog]

But don’t you want to know who paid for the trip? That usually tells it all, but is amazingly missing in most press accounts involving politicians. Who’s over the pond jet did he use, and who was paying his $4.00 per gallon for Jet A, which would be somewhere near 40,000 pounds of fuel in a Gulfstream.

[usslsm51]

I’ll drink to that, gimme a Billy Beer!

[Just A Nobody]

Considering that the very first act of the New President Carter, on his first day in office, was to pardon the likes of John Kerry and his treason -
- and considering NO ONE has been charged with the Logan Act in 200 years, I think it disingenuous to single out Pres. Bush as the single slacker here. But hey, never let a chance to slam Bush get away...

Thank you! Pandemic BDS affects all aspects of life.

Treason and sedition already have set a precedent within the US CONgress with Jon EFFIN Carry in 1971.....

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...and the treasonous b-turds last April during their little jaunt to meet with terrorist regimes. Lest we forget!

Pelosi to take message from Jerusalem to Syria
Matthew Kalman, Chronicle Foreign Service
Monday, April 2, 2007
"We have an alternative Democratic foreign policy," Lantos said. "I view my job as beginning with restoring overseas credibility and respect for the United States."

First-term Democrat Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, a member of the delegation and the first Muslim elected to Congress, said the trip marked another stage in the development of an alternative Democrat strategy toward foreign policy in the Middle East.

The "bipartisan delegation" included GOP members Frank Wolf from Virginia, Pennsylvania's Joe Pitts and Robert Aderholt of Alabama, Ohio's David Hobson. Demonrats Tom Lantos from California, Henry Waxman of Los Angeles, Louise Slaughter of New York and Nick Rahall of West Virginia also joined Nancy and Keith Ellison of Minnesota on this treasonous mission.

REMEMBER!

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Somehow I missed the class when we were taught that the losing opposition were permitted to travel the world offering an opposing foreign policy to that of the winning President. But then again, I was out of school when that new policy went into effect in 2001...or was it 2004 that it became popular?

[Calpernia]

placemark

[Joe Boucher]

And could you imagine the outrage from libs if President Bush say locked up Carter or any number of others for any number of seditious actions?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Cahtah is either an outright liar or his brain has become addled. Maybe both.

[TomGuy]

Carter, better than anyone, knows that U.S. threats are hollow.

Many of the problems with the Middle East can be directly linked to the Carter Administration and its ineptitude. We are still suffering the aftermath of the Carter presidency.

The Carter Administration ineptitude in handling the 444 day Hostage Crisis and the Carter Administration being behind the fall of the Shah of Iran are just two examples.

[purpleraine]

Treason

[LibLieSlayer]

:-)

Billy should have been President. He disliked jimmah as much as we do.

LLS

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1681380/posts
Jimmy Carter: The Untold Story

[tobyhill]

I’m sure it was one of those “business” trips for former Presidents at taxpayers expense. ;>)

[Calpernia]

Actually, it sounds business as usually from his previous acts.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1681380/posts

Excerpt:

Jonah Goldberg, in a May, 2002 article in the National Review, notes that while the first President Bush was trying to orchestrate an international coalition to remove Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, Carter wrote a letter to the U.N. Security Council - including Mitterrand’s France and Communist China - asking its members to stymie Bush’s efforts.

He told Haitian dictator Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras, he was “ashamed of what my country has done to your country.” Carter has conducted talks with men like Syria’s Hafez al-Assad, and North Korea’s Kim II Sung both of whom, he wrote, “have at times been misunderstood, ridiculed, and totally condemned by the American public.” Part of the reason is “their names are foreign, not Anglo-Saxon,” he observed.

He endorsed Yasser Arafat’s sham election and grumbled about the legitimate vote that ousted Sandinista Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua. Carter even volunteered to be Arafat’s speechwriter and gofer, crafting palatable messages for Arafat’s Western audiences and convincing the Saudis to continue funding Arafat after the Palestinians sided with Iraq against the United States. So Condi’s statement today isn’t going far enough. He needs his passport revoked. The Logan Act needs to be enforced.

/excerpt

He should have had his passport pulled long ago.

[pnh102]

And could you imagine the outrage from libs if President Bush say locked up Carter or any number of others for any number of seditious actions?

I wish I could.

[Carry_Okie]

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the Bush administration explicitly warned former President Carter against meeting with members of Hamas

Unless she enforces that warning, she has completely discredited herself, again, teaching a world of hardened thugs not to heed her word.