Carter Should Stick to Picking Peanuts

GOPUSA ^ | March 10, 2003 | Bobby Eberle

[Columbine]

In Sunday's issue of the New York Times, former President Jimmy Carter not only proves that he is a devout follower of the "peace at any price" coalition, but he also lays out a case against military action with Iraq based on false statements and a surprising failure to see the facts right before his eyes.

Former President Carter begins his editorial titled "Just War -- or a Just War?" by naming his foundations of foreign policy and intervention, namely "basic religious principles, respect for international law, and alliances that resulted in wise decisions and mutual restraint." In the very next sentence, Carter writes, "Our apparent determination to launch a war against Iraq, without international support, is a violation of these premises."

Yes, I did finish reading the entire column, but with an introduction like that, I knew the rest would simply be ridiculous. How can he say that the United States does not have international support? The current list of coalition partners stands at over 30, with more joining with each passing week. The violations of U.N.-mandated disarmament by Saddam Hussein span more than a decade, and the U.N. Security Council spoke with unanimity when passing resolution 1441 which gave Saddam Hussein one final opportunity to immediately and unconditionally disarm. France, Russia, China, and Syria (among others) all voted for resolution 1441. The international support for Iraqi disarmament cannot be more clear.

[bart99]

444 US hostages for how long?? And he was so concerned about them he sequestered himself in the Rose garden until their release. His avoidance of international conflict sure didn't help - just made the USA look weak. Fortunately, all the hostages were released following Reagan's overwhelming victory in the following presidential elections.

Further, both Carter and Clinton have broken a 200 year tradition of ex-presidents not critisizing the current president. Oh well..... life goes on.

[SJSAMPLE]

52 hostages for 444 days.

[big bad easter bunny]

For some one who was such a foriegn policy embarrassment, really shouldn't be giving any advice. It was his pansy ass policies that created the whole problem. The Soviet Union also had hostages taken the same time we did. They said hand them over or we will obliterate you and it worked.

[Hootch]

FYI... You dig peanuts, you don't pick 'em although your point is still well taken.

[polemikos]

Jimmy Carter: "Useful Idiot" or "Traitor"?

"[Marshall Tito] is a man who believes in human rights.
[He is] a great and courageous leader [who] has led his people
and protected their freedom almost for the last 40 years."
-- Carter, while still in office, hailing Yugoslavia's communist dictator

"Our goals are the same: to have a just system of economics and
politics ... We believe in enhancing human rights."
-- Carter comparing himself to Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu

"Our concept of human rights is preserved in [Communist] Poland."
-- Carter speaking to Stalinist Edward Gierek, Poland's First Secretary

"[I am] ashamed of what my country has done to your country."
-- Carter speaking to Haitian dictator Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras

"I don't see that they [the North Koreans] are an outlaw nation."
-- Carter in North Korea, lauding Stalinist Kim Il Sung,
   one of the most destructive and repressive dictators in history

"Ill-informed commentators in both countries have cast the other side
as a villain and have even forecast inevitable confrontation
between the two nations."
-- Carter making exquisite moral equivalence between the giant and
   repressive Chinese Communist state and America

Carter gave away US oversight of the Panama Canal, "the most
important waterway in the world," says Adm. Thomas H. Moorer (ret),
which is now "packed with Chinese communists."

Sadat, appalled that Carter wanted the Soviets in on Middle East peace
negotiations, decided to directly offer peace to Israel's Begin. When
their plan was essentially worked out, they then called the White House,
because obviously, "they needed someone to pay the bill" (Bernard Lewis).

Not resting on his laurels, Carter demanded the Shah of Iran step down
and turn over power to the Ayatollah Khomeini, an Islamic madman. Carter
had the Pentagon tell the Shah's top military commanders - about 150 of
them - to acquiesce to the Ayatollah and not fight him. The Shah's
military listened to Carter. ALL OF THEM were murdered in one of the
Ayatollah's first acts. By allowing the Shah to fall, Carter created one
of the most militant anti-American dictatorships ever. Soon the new Iranian
government was ransacking our embassy and held hostage its staff for over
a year. More than 20,000 pro-Western Iranians were put before firing
squads. With the Shah gone, the whole region was destabilized.

Iraq took advantage of the Shah's departure to invade Iran, a war that
killed more than 500,000 people. It also created the regional instabilities
that led to Iraq’s later invasion of Kuwait and to Operation Desert Storm,
which cost the lives of hundreds of thousands more. But Carter meant well.

In the closing days of the 1980 election, Carter's White House contacted
the Soviets in a quid pro quo to plead for assistance in stopping Reagan
from winning. In 1984, Carter himself visited Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin
to ask the Soviets to intervene on behalf of Democrats. Damning evidence
that Jimmy Carter, as both president and citizen, may have committed treason
by enlisting the help of our enemies in presidential elections.

Since leaving office, Carter has:
- praised Syria's late Assad (killer of at least 20,000 in Hama)
- praised Ethiopian tyrant Mengistu (killer of many more than that)
- secured Saudi funding for Arafat after he sided with Iraq against the US
- wrote the UN Security Council after Iraq invaded Kuwait, urging them
to thwart President Bush's pre-Gulf War coalition (designed to reverse
that act of aggression) - another action some called "treason"

"Our people, who face Israeli bullets, have no weapons: only a few stones
remaining when our homes are destroyed by Israeli bulldozers."
-- from a speech written by Carter for Yassir Arafat

"[Arafat's] election [was] democratic, well organized, open and fair."
-- Carter describing the "rigged" 1996 Palestinian election

"[Arafat] may well see the suicide attacks as one of the few ways
to retaliate against his tormentors, to dramatize the suffering of
his people, or as a means for him, vicariously, to be a martyr."
-- Carter in an apologia for the Pali homicide-bombings

And yet, with the blood of perhaps a million people dripping from his hands,
Carter stalked the earth in his sick quest to be given a Nobel Peace Prize.

If he had any moral center at all, he would return his recent peace prize.

Carter is the smiley face of evil.

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R E F E R E N C E S:

Jimmy Carter: America basher
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/jg20020515.shtml

Carter: Cuba Terror Claims False
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/682807/posts

There He Goes Again
http://www.nationalreview.com/20may02/nordlinger052002.asp

You Didn’t Ask for It, You Got It: Carterpalooza!
http://www.nationalreview.com/impromptus/impromptus050302.asp

Carter & Castro
http://www.frontpagemag.com/columnists/ponte05-08-02.htm

Jimmy Carter’s Trail of Disaster
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/5/12/164726.shtml

'Idiotic' Carter Castro's Dupe
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/5/15/202903.shtml

Carter, Democrats Asked Soviets to Stop Reagan
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/10/16/214040

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[Eric in the Ozarks]

The hostages in Iran were released the very day Ronald Reagan won the presidency. Newspapers all over the country were faced with two huge stories and two bold headlines for their day after elections edition.

[skeeter]

444 US hostages for how long?? And he was so concerned about them he sequestered himself in the Rose garden until their release. His avoidance of international conflict sure didn't help - just made the USA look weak.

Yeah, but he sure was hell at scheduling the WH tennis courts.

[savedbygrace]

Bump for later reading.

[Mo1]

Why is it that Carter always attacks America and always sticks up for and goes out of his way to protect Dictators??

[alloysteel]

Jimmy Carter, almost singlehandedly, levered the Shah of Iran off the Peacock Throne, because of alleged human rights violations. Into that vacuum, the theocracy that now rules Iran rose to power, and almost the first act was to denounce the United States as the "Great Satan". There was imposed upon Iran a much sterner rule than ever known under the Shah, and eventually the US Embassy was besieged, all the personnel there taken prisoner. The failed attempt to make a "surgical strike" to rescue those prisoners has to stand as the height of something in foreign policy, not too slow and not too fast, just the epitome of half-fast.

But everybody already knows this. Surely, the Despot of Baghdad, Saddam Hussein, has more human rights violations to his name than any personage who was a power in the Middle East, since the time of Ghengis Khan. Jimmy could agree to removal of the Shah, and not to removal of Saddam?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Who knew Billy was the more intellectually gifted of the two?

[FirstTomato]

I have loathed Carter for a long time, because even back when I voted for the Demonrats I was always a patriot, and the stench of his anti-Americanism repulsed me. Its amazing how he has many Americans thinking he is a good guy. But he is not. An ex-President who constantly seeks to undermine a sitting President is not a good citizen, let alone a good person. Carter is a Marxist and an enemy of his country and its freedoms. He should go back to building houses.

[DCBurgess58]

I have no evidence to support this, but I'm guessing he was a crappy peanut farmer too.

[Red Dog #1]

Obviously if you hate America, Carter was an extremly succsefull president.

[axel f]

Who knew Billy was the more intellectually gifted of the two?

Good one!

[Mo1]

I have no evidence to support this, but I'm guessing he was a crappy peanut farmer too.

What ever did happen with that peanut farm?

[tracer]

Indeed. Aflatoxin could be our friend after all is said and done....

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

It is a profound insult to the countries who are with us to act as though they don't exist, or that they have no legitimacy.

I really cannot stand Jimmy Carter. He's not a good man. His mild-mannered, soft-spoken image makes people think he is, but I'm convinced he is NOT.

[Busywhiskers]

To communicate with the distinguished former President write to:

The Carter Center
One Copenhill
453 Freedom Parkway
Atlanta, GA 30307