Jimmy Carter takes president to task

Houston Chronicle ^ | April 9, 2004, 12:22PM | JAMES PINKERTON

[SolutionsOnly]

BROWNSVILLE -- Former President Carter on Thursday called the Bush administration's decision to wage war against Iraq "ill-advised and unnecessary," adding the resulting campaign "has turned out to be a tragedy."

The former Democratic president also said Bush's environmental policies are perhaps the worst in the nation's history.

Carter made the comments at the Rio R.V. Park after wrapping up a four-day birding trip with his wife, Rosalynn, in the lower Rio Grande Valley.

"President Bush's war was ill-advised and unnecessary and based on erroneous statements, and has turned out to be a tragedy," Carter said. "And my prayer has been that brave young American men and women, and others who are there, that their lives will be spared and there will be some peaceful resolution of the war."

Carter, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, also blamed what he called Bush's pro-Israel policies for engendering animosity against America.

"The prime source of animosity towards the United States is the lack of progress in dealing with the Palestinian issue," Carter said, adding that past U.S. administrations since Harry Truman's have maintained a "balanced position" in dealing with the rights of the Arab population within the Jewish nation.

"The present administration has not done so at all. We have been exclusively committed to the policies of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Israel, and have made no effort to try to have a balanced negotiating position between Israel and the Palestinians," Carter said.

Carter, who brokered the historic 1978 Camp David accords that led to peace between Israel and Egypt, noted that President George H.W. Bush threatened to halt foreign aid when Israel began building settlements in Palestinian territory.

"In the meantime, of course, the Israelis have established hundreds of settlements all over Palestinian land with no critical comment ever coming from the present Bush administration," Carter said.

Carter, who placed 103 million acres of Alaskan land under federal protection during his term, also took the current White House to task on the environment.

"This national administration is the worst for conservation in my lifetime, maybe in history," said Carter, whose family has farmed in Georgia since 1833. "In all the basic elements of preserving the purity of parks and wildlife lands, controlling the industries that are inclined to pollute ... the decimation of forest lands."

[Paul Atreides]

Carter made the comments at the Rio R.V. Park after wrapping up a four-day birding trip with his wife, Rosalynn, in the lower Rio Grande Valley.

The other day, someone posted a story about a woman who has a forty-pound cat. At the end of the article, it stated that the Guiness Book of World Records no longer has that as a record category. That's because you will not find a bigger pussy in the world, than Jimmah Carter.

[motzman]

"That rabbit is dynamite!"

[Brimack34]

"ill-advised and unnecessary," Hey I thought were O'Reilly's talking points. Thats what I heard him say.
You can say almost all wars are "ill-advised and unnecessary," But why does he pick this one?

[goldstategop]

ROFL! The same Jimmuh Cartuh that gave us Iran and Afghanistan in the 70s and was helpless in the face of Soviet expansionism. He wants us to give up and run away from radical Islam. After all we musn't make them mad. Can you believe this guy was ever President? Like President Reagan used to say, "there he goes again."

[Patrick1]

Jimmy Carter feels the need, yet again, to remind us why Ronald Reagan beat him in a landslide.

Thanks Jimmy.

[dennisw]

How about that mofunker on Israel? Damn rotter!

[Howlin]

…had I been elected to a second term, with the prestige and authority and influence and reputation I had in the region

ROFLMAO. What a dweeb.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Come on, Roslyn....put your "soul-mate" in an assisted living facility already.

[river rat]

Or feed the silly bastard some rancid peanuts...

Jeeeze, don't these lunatic democrats every STFU???

Semper Fi

[mrustow]

The prime source of animosity towards the United States is the lack of progress in dealing with the Palestinian issue, Buchanan said, adding that past U.S. administrations since Harry Truman's have maintained a "balanced position" in dealing with the rights of the Arab population within the Jewish nation.

I slightly edited a passage -- strange bedfellows, and all that.

[mystery-ak]

My husband, mike1sg, blames this current uprising in Iraq on Ted *the Swimmer* Kennedy...he considers him a traitor to the US, wait til I forward this article to him....Kennedy and Carter have under-minded our US troops and has brought harm to them.....God protect our troops.

[SolutionsOnly]

Yes, The Democrats do make life easy for the Al Jezeera editors, don't they?

[vaudine]

Amen! Jimmy really should spend more time brushing his teeth. That large task would keep him too busy to meddle so much.

vaudine

[samtheman]

Who the hell listens to Jimmy Carter?

1. Assorted dicators and thugs around the world.
2. Assorted misfits and leftists in America.
3. The Nobel Prize Committee.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Jeeeze, don't these lunatic democrats every STFU???

I think their contract with Satan requires them to keep speaking...even if brain dead.

[Jorge]

Bush must be doing something right if Carter is criticizing him.

Carter was a total disaster as president.

[Mike Darancette]

the resulting campaign "has turned out to be a tragedy"

Here's your Tragedy, Jimmy

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

THE CARTER PRESIDENCY IN A NUTSHELL:

Long gas lines
Appeasing Mideast dictators
Energy policy: Wear a sweater, America
Malaise
Killer Rabbit
Billy Beer
Stagflation

[verity]

He has never been the same since he was sexually molested by that crazed rabbit. :~!)

[NordP]

"The fact the the United States survived Jimmy Carter is testimony that there is a very merciful God watching over us."

And the fact that we have George W. Bush and Co. as our President and Administration shows God's bountiful love for us!

Happy Easter All - open a door for someone this weekend - wish a good thing to happen to someone you encounter while on your busy path - spread God's word of being loving and kind to your neighbor!

NordP