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Jimmy Carter says Zimbabwe crisis is 'much worse' than imagined
Los Angeles Times ^ | November 24, 2008 | Robyn Dixon

Posted on 11/24/2008 2:52:47 PM PST by george76

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter today said Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis was far worse than he could have imagined and expressed dismay that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his government refused to acknowledge the problem even existed.

"The entire basic structure in education, healthcare, feeding people, social services and sanitation has broken down," Carter told a news conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. "These are all indications that the crisis in Zimbabwe is much greater, much worse than we had ever imagined."

Carter was part of a delegation that was denied entry into Zimbabwe last week to assess the crisis. The delegation members also included U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Grace Machel, the wife of former South African President Nelson Mandela.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: africa; annan; carter; jimmycarter; kofiannan; mugabe; robertmugabe; zimbabwe
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To: Casaubon

I think he ‘gets’ it. . .it just serves his ego and his agenda. . .to pretend that we do not. . .


41 posted on 11/24/2008 3:04:22 PM PST by cricket (America's Freedom Rings! Thank You ~ U..S.A. Military~/)
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To: george76

Wow, how cool is it to know that most people here are smarter and better informed about the situation than a former president...and we have been for some time. I feel so special.


42 posted on 11/24/2008 3:05:00 PM PST by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: Zeppelin

I hate bp.blogger.com!


43 posted on 11/24/2008 3:05:01 PM PST by ari-freedom (So this is how Liberty dies... with thunderous applause)
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To: george76

No kidding? For Mr. Carter’s information, the whole Zimbabwe
nightmare was caused by a so-called leader who “spread the wealth” there.


44 posted on 11/24/2008 3:06:40 PM PST by boxer21
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To: george76

Go back to sleep, Jimmah.


45 posted on 11/24/2008 3:07:42 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: george76

Well get ur *ss on a plane and get over to fix it, Jimma! Go build some free housing, or threaten to use your super Nobel Prize-based powers! If that fails, you can always blame Israel again. Idiot.


46 posted on 11/24/2008 3:10:00 PM PST by TonyStark
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To: Zeppelin; Clive; SunkenCiv

47 posted on 11/24/2008 3:10:08 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76; Fred Nerks; LucyT; Beckwith
Jimmy Carter says Zimbabwe crisis is 'much worse' than imagined>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Jimmy Carter has gone through life saying everything is much worse than he could have imagined. One concludes:

a) He has no imagination

b) He has no genuine deep life experience

As a result Jimmuh is never prepared for the eventualities which inevitably transpire in his life.

Thats why he sucked as a president, and it is also why he sucks now.

And it will be also why Obama will suck in the future.

These liberal/lefties are so much hat and no cattle, that their asses are between their ears.

Zimbabwe can only be saved by a force like the US Marines but Jimmuh thinks that things need to be much , much worse than he imagined that he imagined, to even contemplate such a solution.

48 posted on 11/24/2008 3:11:06 PM PST by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, ( member NRA)
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To: george76

Jimmy and his buddy Andrew Young helped put this Marxist thug,Mugabe,in office. If you look in the dictionary their pictures come up when you query “useful idiots”.


49 posted on 11/24/2008 3:11:09 PM PST by mort56
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To: george76

Typical Carter idiocy as IIRC, ‘twas Jimma who helped bring down the Rhodesian government of Ian Smith, paving the way for this sort of tribal/tyrant madness.

Once again, someone ELSE winds up paying for the moronic misdeeds of the liberals.

Wait till you see what’s coming for what remains of the United States.


50 posted on 11/24/2008 3:13:05 PM PST by Dick Bachert
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To: USAFJeeper

Now you have it right..Thanks for the laugh..I was in Europe for four years when the peanut farmer was president, needless to say I knew nothing about this moron until I got home...I soon found out..


51 posted on 11/24/2008 3:13:28 PM PST by PLD
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To: george76
The Carter administration is the gift that keeps on giving. 1979 brought us the "resolution" of the Iranian revolution, to be sure, but it also brought us the "settlement" of the Rhodesian Civil War, which fewer remember. That was, of course, Mugabe's ticket to the top.

Fortunately the Carter administration is long gone from the foreign policy scene...well, except for the fact that Carter's National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski is helping to craft Obama's. Swell.

52 posted on 11/24/2008 3:14:26 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: george76
Every utterance of this imbecile pushes me into a red eyed rage.

How do we get him to go away?

53 posted on 11/24/2008 3:14:36 PM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: george76

We should deny that anti-American-peanut-brained-moron entry into the U.S.A.


54 posted on 11/24/2008 3:14:52 PM PST by Riptides
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To: george76

Let Carter handle it. Keep us out of the mix. If we can’t take care of ourselves, we can’t take care of them.


55 posted on 11/24/2008 3:15:42 PM PST by RC2
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To: george76
Hey, this is the BLACK guy that ran the WHITE farmers off their lands, to give the best farms to his family and cronies and thus all the whites were the ones who were the backbone of the food industry. ANOTHER BLACK guy, like all those black mayors of the failing large cities in the USA, who failed. But, no problem. IT was someone else’s fault, not the murdering thug who was president and whom the french kissed his butt.
56 posted on 11/24/2008 3:17:03 PM PST by RetiredArmy (NOTE TO REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS: PLAY THE CONSERVATIVE CARD!!!)
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To: george76

Apparently they didn’t realize who Jimma was, kind of like how the rest of us keep trying to forget him too.


57 posted on 11/24/2008 3:17:50 PM PST by festusbanjo (Stop Obamarxism! RESIST)
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To: george76

Problems never exist before Solipsistic Jimmy discovers them.


58 posted on 11/24/2008 3:19:22 PM PST by denydenydeny ("Banish Merry Christmas. Get ready for Mad Max.."-Daniel Henninger)
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To: Chet 99

Yep, Mugabe needs a better PR flack. He would have told him how cheap it is to buy off Jimmuh.


59 posted on 11/24/2008 3:20:21 PM PST by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: george76

Dear Jimmy, you pathetically stupid commie asswipe! Stay there!


60 posted on 11/24/2008 3:22:23 PM PST by Doc Savage ("Are you saying Jesus can't hit a curve ball? - Harris to Cerrano - Major League)
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