Posted on 06/08/2005 6:48:08 AM PDT by Issaquahking
{By BERNARD McGHEE, Associated Press Writer Tue Jun 7, 5:43 PM ET
ATLANTA - Former President Carter on Tuesday called for the United States to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison to demonstrate its commitment to human rights.
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"The U.S. continues to suffer terrible embarrassment and a blow to our reputation ... because of reports concerning abuses of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo," Carter said after a two-day human rights conference at his Atlanta center.
Such reports have surfaced despite President Bush's "bold reminder that America is determined to promote freedom and democracy around the world," Carter said.
About 540 detainees are being held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Some have been there more than three years without being charged with a crime. Most were captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan in 2001 and 2002 and were sent to Guantanamo Bay in hope of extracting useful intelligence about the al-Qaida terrorist network.
Carter said the United States needs to make sure no detainees are held incommunicado and that all are told the charges against them.
Despite his criticism of Guantanamo Bay, Carter said Amnesty International should not have called the prison "the gulag of our time" in a report last month. President Bush has termed the report by the human-rights group "absurd."
Carter said the alleged abuses at Guantanamo Bay could never compare with the forced labor camps operated by the former Soviet Union.
I call on Carter to shut his mouth.
Our two great foreign policy disasters: Presidents Carter and Clinton.
I have said it before, but Thank God that we did not have to face a major fight with Carter in the White House. That pacifist liberal idiot would have been out in front waving a white flag. He should go off somewhere in India and sit on a rock and sing peace songs....
Carter's place in history is secure as the worst ex-President we'll ever have.
I call on peanut boy to STFU!!
Carter takes a stand! Of course, it's with the enemy, but his boldness and courage must be repected!!
Message brought to you by the famous ex-US President that goes around the world and hugs murderous dictators and thugs. I'm sure Kim in North Korea, Chavez in Venezuela and Castro in Cuba have a smile a mile wide when they see Carter open his mouth.
a failed ca'tar administration,
hoping to make a
failed bush administration.
Carter who. . .?
That was my first thought as well! Great minds and all that... ;)
"Jimmy Carter allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran"
You got that right. This is the root of 9/11 and our problems today and it's Carter's fault.
Carter is an idiot and a traitor.
How about if we just lock him up down in Gitmo???
As a friend of mine once said...."Jimmy Carter is history's greatest monster." What a creep. Why doesn't the man just stick with pounding nails? He reminds me of the demented school teacher everybody hated.
And so the senile old boob from Plains continues to blather on where his opinion is neither wanted nor needed. Can someone please find a shuffleboard tournament or a bingo game for Jimmy to play?
I waiting for God to shut down Jimmy Carter.
Can Michael Moore's pronouncements be far behind?
Hey Jimmah! Gonna build em all Habatat housing?
Fool. You should have stuck to drivin' Subs. That was your finest hour.
Obviously the Democrats still see terrorism as a criminal problem and forget that we are at war.
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