Admiral Moorer Slams "Idiotic" Carter For Being Castro's Dupe

News Max ^ | May 16, 2002 | Chuck Noe

[joesnuffy]

Jimmy Carter is "idiotic" and a "damn menace" for letting Cuban dictator Fidel Castro exploit him, Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told NewsMax.com in an exclusive interview Wednesday night.

"He should get the hell out of there!" thundered Moorer, a member of NewsMax.com's board of directors.

"He’s trying to justify himself," the retired admiral said. "He has an inferiority complex about what he did and how he left the situation" after his failed one-term presidency. "He had his opportunity, and he really screwed it up."

The antics in Cuba don't surprise Moorer, who fought valiantly against Carter's giveaway of the Panama Canal.

"I think I testified more than any other individual" in Congress against the scheme, Moorer recalled. The Georgia Democrat's action was "the most stupid presidential decision that has ever been made in my lifetime."

The Panama Canal, "the most important waterway in the world," is now "packed with Chinese communists," the retired military leader noted. "It was an idiotic thing to do. It makes no sense whatsoever."

Since then, "Anything Carter does I take with a grain of salt."

'Useful Idiot'

Is Carter a "useful idiot" to Castro, as former senior Defense Department official Frank Gaffney said Tuesday night on Fox News Channel? "I agree with that," Moorer said.

He thinks President Bush approved the visit as a "normal reaction of one president to another." But the courtesy backfired. "I don't think the Bush administration really knew what they were getting into when they allowed him to go down there and get in bed with Castro."

In Carter's speech to the Cuban people Tuesday night, the criticism of America's prisons and lack of socialized medicine and reference to supposedly "superb" Cuban education and health care angered the veteran Navy leader. "What he's trying to do is damage and criticize," Moorer fumed. "That's just typical Carter. … He's not being very patriotic."

Does Carter have good intentions, as many think, or he is deliberately acting against his own country?

'Damn Menace'

Moorer believes the ex-president's main concern is publicity for himself. "I think he does more damage by far than he understands himself. … I think he's a damn menace."

Carter has no authority or expertise to pass judgment on Castro's bioterror threat, the retired admiral said.

"He's absolutely doing the U.S. – and the Western world, for that matter – no favors," Moorer observed.

"He should pack up and go home."

[joesnuffy]

He should have a nice library by now.

[Bigg Red]

bump

[Toidylop]

I guess the old saying never dies with the "peanut-of-a-brain" man Carter. STUPID IS, STUPID DOES...

[bybybill]

Stop picken on Jimma--he`s suffering from a terrible diease----IWANTTOBEIMPORTANTDISSS-----sad, so sad---observers predict that Billy is also showing signs

[clintonh8r]

I had the honor of meeting Admiral Moorer when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and I was proud to serve under him. He is a true patriot. We need more like him, and fewer like Crowe, Clarke and Powell, all fortunately retired from military service.

[johnny7]

But he's so gentle and kind. Sure he can't hammer a nail or level off a joist but he has a good heart.

Sure he can let our choppers fly into themselves in Iran, but he wasn't there.

Sure he sucks up to Castro and derides us, but he means well.

Jimma is gettin a lil unfirm up in de attic.

[Congressman Billybob]

As those experienced in thenews business know, newspapers assign temporary headllines to articles in process of being typeset. These are replaced by the actual headline, once the space and tupeface for that are known. Once after a Carter State of the Union Speech, the temprary headline was left on the text of that speech, and several people were fired for that error.

The Columbia Journalism Review reported that the speech text was printed in the early editions of the Globe under a headline that properly sums up much of Carter's political career, both in the White House and since then. It was (I'm not making this up):

More Mush from the Wimp

I swear to God that is a true story.

Congressman Billybob

Click here to fight Campaign Finance "Reform" - CFR

Click here for latest: "Albert Einstein, Paul Hyde & Christina Asquith."

[good1]

Carter is just as disgraceful as Clinton, just absent the immorality. I can't believe that he is a graduate of the Naval Academy; he obviously didn't learn anything while he was there.

What is it with Carter? Is he really that stupid or is he terminally naive?

The Bush adminstration won't say it, so I will, "He doesn't speak for me. He is suffering from diarrhea of the mouth."

[another cricket]

Has anyone notices that it is Democrats that seem to do this "I am still important" bit after leaving office?

When was the last time you saw Ford or Bush I jumping up and down trying to get their two cents in? Reagen and Nixon didn't either.

I used to think that Carter was a good man if a bad POTUS. Now I don't even think that he is a good man.

a.cricket

[Savage Beast]

Of course Carter is Castro's useful idiot, and he is far too stupid to be able to understand it.

A fool will follow a scoundrel, but it takes a bigger fool to follow a fool. So much for the fools that voted Jimmy Carter into office.

The Democrat Party: the party of fools and scoundrels.

[Joe Boucher]

Interesting how one feels about going into battle and following a leader. I'd go into harms way for Admiral Moorer. Mostly because i feel he'd be honest with his men unlike say a Jimy Carter or maybe a Tom Dashole.

[roadcat]

Hey, Jimmy Peanut wasn't that stupid! Didn't he make beer? Oops, that was his brother, oh well, at least Jimmy's brother did something useful!

[It'salmosttolate]

Cuban lab was front for Russian biological warfare research
Cuba has been marketing biological weapons components and technology to Middle East clients since
the mid-1980s, a senior administration officials said.Full Story Click Here