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Carter Calls on U.S. to Shut Down Gitmo
Drudge report/Yahoo ^ | Tue Jun 7, 5:43 PM ET | By BERNARD McGHEE,

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.


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: carter; communist; cuba; gitmo; guantanamo; jimmah; jimmycarter; traitor; usefulidiot
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To: EagleUSA

Why India?


81 posted on 06/08/2005 8:40:36 AM PDT by ekidsohbelaas (curiouser and curiouser)
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To: bella1
I think President Bush should appoint Jimmy as "ambassador to Gitmo". That way he can monitor the situation up close and personal.

I think his doctor should declare him incompetent and have him confined to Plains, and order him to stop meddling in the affairs of our government. He had his turn and he failed miserably.

The media will continue to report his stupid remarks as long as it supports their liberal ideology and embarrasses President Bush. No other living ex-President has ever meddled and criticized their predecessor like Carter and Clinton have. Both show a complete lack of class, and, unfortunately, they are both from the South.

82 posted on 06/08/2005 8:41:58 AM PDT by PeskyOne
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To: manny613
Years ago, I read a book called "Breaking with Moscow" by Arkady Chevchenko, who was the highest ranking Soviet ever to defect to the U.S. (he and Anatoly Dobrynin were the top advisors to Andrei Gromyko)

In his book, he mentions a meeting that Gromyko had with Jimmy Carter in 1977. Afterwards, he asked Gromyko how the meeting went. Gromyko scowled, "Read the cable!" Then he smiled and said, "He thinks that we're just like another Western democracy. I think in the end, we're going to get him to agree to a lot of things that we want."

83 posted on 06/08/2005 9:11:43 AM PDT by guinnessman
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

The U.S. called on Carter to shut his piehole 25 years ago and he still hasn't gotten the message. How smart could he be?


84 posted on 06/08/2005 9:28:08 AM PDT by Barb4Bush
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To: w1andsodidwe
I call on Carter to shut his mouth.

I've been looking at the link for this thread all morning knowing that someone else would have already written the exact same thing I was thinking. I was right. Kudos.

85 posted on 06/08/2005 9:34:52 AM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: PeskyOne
No other living ex-President has ever meddled and criticized their predecessor like Carter and Clinton have.

Should be successor, not predecessor! Must be having ore senior moments.

86 posted on 06/08/2005 10:08:55 AM PDT by PeskyOne
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To: Issaquahking

"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."

Since these murderers are supposedly operating outside the bounds of international statecraft, let their organization leaders (i.e bin Laden, zaqarwi) step forward and prove their innocence and negotiate their release. Otherwise, let Bush and team handle their unique imprisonment. As is in all wars, when this one is over, only then should the conditions of release be discussed. Whether it is 3 years or 10 years. These guys are not represenative of typical drivebys in LA, therefore their so-called rights are not parallel. These are enemy prisoners of war. That is why this is legal. Their unleashed idiocy has brought it on themselves.

If Carter is so worried about their internment, let him build a camp in Georgia and run a anti-recidivism program based on peanut shelling and canning billy beer, and the discuss the nutritional value of pork rinds. Oops, belay that on the pork rinds. Might offend someone.


87 posted on 06/08/2005 10:11:23 AM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet (home of the free because of the brave.)
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To: Issaquahking
Wideawake Calls On Carter To Rescue The Hostages
88 posted on 06/08/2005 11:43:25 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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To: Issaquahking

Carter is still trying desparately to counter the prevailing school of thought that he was, in fact, the worst president of the 20th century and possibly all time.

Hey Jimmuh, let me be the 50th person on this thread to ask you to STFU!


89 posted on 06/08/2005 11:56:03 AM PDT by Rockitz (After all these years, it's still rocket science.)
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To: Issaquahking

I still call on the US to shut down Carter.


90 posted on 06/08/2005 12:02:27 PM PDT by jimfree (Laura has it right.)
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To: Issaquahking

Is this the same moronic Carter than gave his approval of the election of a dictator in Venezuela? Is this the same buffoon Carter that has signed the Venezuelian people over to a man who doesn't care about human rights?

I think it's time that Carter is put in a small room with nice padded walls and a large section of duct tape over his mouth.


91 posted on 06/08/2005 1:03:55 PM PDT by MissouriConservative (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.)
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To: Issaquahking

Carter's brain shut down a long long time ago....


92 posted on 06/08/2005 1:06:14 PM PDT by CheneyChick
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To: Issaquahking

Former President WHO???? Ohhhhh, NOW I remember.......21% prime rate, double digit inflation, hostages in Iran, aborted rescue mission, Afghanistan invaded by Soviets, Panama Canal giveaway, establishment of Dept Of Education, malaise, lusting after other women in his heart.....


93 posted on 06/08/2005 1:43:24 PM PDT by NRA1995 (Exactly when did enforcing immigration policy become vigilantism?)
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To: Issaquahking
This SHOULD read:

U.S. to Shut Down JIMMY CARTER

94 posted on 06/08/2005 1:49:57 PM PDT by floozy22 (ThunderThighs/Jabba 2008 - Bring It On!)
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To: EagleUSA

...........and eat goobers! *~*


95 posted on 06/08/2005 1:54:56 PM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: Issaquahking

What a fool that old man is. If I were as bad a President as he was, I'd hide my face in shame, but fool's know no shame.


96 posted on 06/08/2005 1:56:13 PM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: Issaquahking

I apply the Ted Kennedy Rule to anything Carter says/does:

If he is for it, then I'm against it; and visa-versa.


97 posted on 06/08/2005 1:58:49 PM PDT by Dr. Free Market (Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.)
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To: NRA1995

and those dasterdly gas lines......odd/even days.


98 posted on 06/08/2005 1:58:55 PM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: Semper Paratus

Yet somehow he got ranked as one of the 100 greatest Americans on the History Channel. Matt Lauer even called him the go-to-guy to certify the validity of elections.


99 posted on 06/08/2005 2:25:07 PM PDT by Better Dead Than Red (Davis College Republicans (Best Party on Campus))
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To: Issaquahking

why is he still taking up our breathing space?



oops


100 posted on 06/08/2005 3:42:31 PM PDT by Rushgrrl (~brought to you from the illegal-rich state of California~)
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