Posted on 08/05/2006 10:13:10 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Carter: Bush pursuing 'erroneous' policy
41 minutes ago
Former President Carter, who helped broker the historic Camp David peace accord, said President Bush has pursued an "erroneous policy" that has fostered violence in the Middle East.
Carter said the United States should work for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah and the world community should concentrate on a long-term solution, but he is uncertain whether Bush can accomplish a cease-fire.
"It depends on whether world opinion is strong enough to get the administration to change its erroneous policy, which has been to encourage the continuation of attacks on both sides," Carter, a Democrat, told The Grand Rapids Press in an interview Friday.
Carter's comments came a day before the U.S. and France agreed on a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that calls for an end to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, but would allow Israel to defend itself if attacked.
As president, Carter helped broker the Camp David peace accord between Israel and Egypt, the first peace deal between the Jewish state and an Arab nation.
"In my opinion, maybe the worst ally Israel has had in Washington has been the George W. Bush administration, which hasn't worked to bring a permanent peace to Israel," Carter told the newspaper.
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Who created the current North Korean problem? Who let U.S. embassy employees be taken hostage in Iran, sit for 444 days, and badly botched the rescue attempt, then let Ronald Reagan solve the problem his first 5 minutes in office? Who let Libya bully a superpower until Ronald Reagan stepped in and essentially solved the problem with a single military strike?
Dear Jimmy:
STFU!
Other than Nixon supplying the Israelis through the dark days of the '73 Yom Kippur War, George W Bush is just about the best friend the Nation of Israel has had in the White House. Dems like Carter and Clinton tried to make them commit national suicide in the name of 'peace'. And where is Ehud Barak these days I wonder?
Any Arab nation that made peace with and worked with Israel would soon leave the other Arab countries in the dust. Of course those other Arab countries could not allow that and would have to destroy that country or its leaders. Hence Sadat was assassinated and Mubarak has kept his distance from Israel, while also keeping Egypt's distance from the intifadas and this latest go-round with Hamas and Hezbollah.
We went on the air at 6:35Pm. The Ohio polls closed at 6:30Pm and there was ABC network news from 6:30 until 6:35Pm.
There were no returns in yet at 6:35 so we did a round robin of all the reporters covering local races, plus what we would be covering from the Secretary of States office.
The ABC news at 6:30 said the same thing we had been hearing for days. The race was too close to call and there was speculation on states that might decide the race.
I grabbed the latest AP copy and noted it said the same thing... way to close to call. By 6:39Pm the last of the local reporters had given a quick rundown on local races and I was in the midst to telling the listeners that the presidential race was too close to call, when I was handed a note. It said to join ABC at 6:40Pm. Jimmy Carter is going to concede to Ronald Reagan.
Here is what went over my air "It may be a very good thing that we all got a good nights sleep last night. According to both ABC News and the Associated Press this race is way to tight to call. We may be here until the wee hours of the morning... Excuse me Ladies and Gentlemen, I have just been handed a note... Uh Are you sure this is right? OK. We take you now to Plains Georgia where President Jimmy Carter is about to concede the election to Ronald Reagan. We take you now to Plains Georgia."
And Jimmy Carter did concede.
That really hit and my mind went back to election eve. It has stuck in my mind. ABC news had done a story on Reagan going back to California and Carter going back to plains. They had an actuality of Reagan thanking his staff and Carter thanking his. Reagan's was up beat.. Talking about the future and what needed to be accomplished. Carter was looking back thanking his people for all they had done during the first administration.
It seemed strange .. Reagan happy looking forward. and Carter sad looking back.
It turned out that both the Reagan and Carter campaigns as well as the media knew the results the night before the election. Reagan had been told that there was no way he could lose.. Only the magnitude of the victory was in doubt. At nearly the same time Carter had been told there was no way he could win.. only the magnitude of his defeat was in doubt.
Back in 1980 there was no talk radio.There was no Internet and there was no Fox News Channel. It was hard to determine bias if one only heard one side. I knew that if Reagan and Carter knew what was coming so did the media. And it had to follow that all those stories about too close to call were just lies.
From that point on I never looked at any news report with out wondering if it was a lie.
And voters did not make their minds up the afternoon before the election. The media had known the truth for weeks. They just lied to us.
Today I would look long and hard before I would believe what the media says is true. They will try to make the President look as bad as possible and try to paint the picture as bleak as possible. They will try to sew seeds of doubt and about cabinet members the president and the Israelis.
I have failed to understand why the right wing of the Republican party will believe the media and distrust their President. I remember what someone told me in the mid 90s. He was at the time a CNN reporter. He asked,"If the right didn't fall for our reports, do you thing we would still do them?"
She's just following the Dogma of the DNC to a tee! ; )
A prudent mindset.
It seemed strange .. Reagan happy looking forward. and Carter sad looking back.
It doesn't seem so strange "now", doest it?
God help me, but I wish this old SOB would do us a favor and start pushing up daisies.
The point was that liberals do GET people killed. Sadat was murdered forsigning a treaty with Israel.
Not true...everything I have read from those who were THERE said it took treats and arm twisting from Carter.
Jimmy is not only the worst president in our history; he's the worst ex-president too. This man is a sanctimonious twit whose gibberish is tolerable only because he's always been a feckless boob.
Yoni said this the other day:
"G-D Bless America and the President. I have never seen such a great President in my life, not even the great Ronald Reagan, would have backed Israel like George Bush is now."
http://www.yonitheblogger.com/
The incredible audacity that Mr. Carter has portrayed as political relevance is astounding. When will this feckless, flea-dung excuse of a Democratic "statesman" end the agonizing pain he wroughts with each of his so-called pronouncments of insight. If Carter had been reelected, still in Office, we would be not day 444, but 1880, before Papa Bush came in.
Here is what the loser has on his website:
"President Carter committed himself to the safe return of the hostages while protecting America's interests and prestige. He pursued a policy of restraint that put a higher value on the lives of the hostages than on American retaliatory power or protecting his own political future.
The toll of patient diplomacy was great, but President Carter's actions brought freedom for the hostages with America's honor preserved."
What a load of horse excrement. Surely this is an episode from Saturnday Night Live.
What point? Carter got Eqypt to accept a peace deal. The extremists didn't like it and assassinated Sadat. Blaming Carter for Sadat's death is like blaming Americans for 9/11 because we support Israel. You would have preferred for Eqypt to have NOT made peace with israel?
History correctly gives Carter credit for the peace accords. So do I. It's unfortunate that's the only thing he did of value and he managed to screw everything else up.
The American people gave Carter a chance at being President and when they realized what a ghastly mistake they made, along came President Reagan to save the day. And Carter never forgave the American people. Then he had the further humiliation, during President Reagan's funeral, of watching Americans honor this great man with all that we had to give. I still miss President Reagan and if I'm still alive when Carter goes, I won't stay glued to the TV as I did during President Reagan's funeral - I probably won't bother to watch.
I'm sure he will be there to certify Castro's death. Then he will annoint Hugo to come in and keep the peace.
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