US should disarm first, says ex-US President Carter (Level Red Barf Alert!!!)

The Times of India ^ | November 16 2002 | AFP

[knighthawk]

WASHINGTON: Former US president Jimmy Carter, this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, called on Friday for disarmament by the United States, which has taken the lead in urging such countries as North Korea and Iraq to destroy their weapons of mass destruction.

"One of the things that the United States government has not done is to try to comply with and enforce international efforts targeted to prohibit the arsenals of biological weapons that we ourselves have," Carter said on CNN's Larry King Live programme broadcast late Friday.

He also called for more stringent efforts by Washington "to reduce and enforce the agreement to eliminate chemical weapons, and the same way with nuclear weapons."

"The major powers need to set an example," Carter said, as the United States confronts Iraq over its possession of such banned weapons.

"Quite often the big countries that are responsible for the peace of the world set a very poor example for those who might hunger for the esteem or the power or the threats that they can develop from nuclear weapons themselves," the former US president continued.

"I don't have any doubt that it's that kind of atmosphere that has led to the nuclearisation, you might say, of India and Pakistan," he said.

Carter, who will receive the Nobel prize on December 10 in Oslo, Norway for his efforts in seeking negotiated settlements to head off violent conflict, also noted that the United States gives only one one-thousandth of its gross national product for international assistance, while the average European country gives four times as much.

"For every time an American gives a dollar, a citizen of Norway gives 17 dollars," he said.

"Foreign aid in this country has a bad name, but in other countries, it's a right thing for the government to do. And that's where we at the Carter Center quite often have to turn," the former president said, referring to the Atlanta-based Carter Center he founded some 20 years ago, and which now operates humanitarian projects in 65 countries.

Carter also said the United States has given many nations around the world cause for resentment and scorn.

"There is a sense that the United States has become too arrogant, too dominant, too self-centered, proud of our wealth, believing that we deserve to be the richest and most powerful and influential nation in the world," the 78-year-old former president said.

"I think they feel that we don't really care about them, which is quite often true."

[facedown]

[philman_36]

Get a load of this!

[philman_36]

Former US president Jimmy Carter, this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, called on Friday for disarmament by the United States, which has taken the lead in urging such countries as North Korea and Iraq to destroy their weapons of mass destruction.
Moving right along with...
Freedom From War
The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World

[Conservinator]

This is another example why all conservatives should promote removing warning labels from all products . . . stupidity will ultimately take care of itself and eliminate the problem!!

[chilepepper]

Look on the bright side.

The Democraps, jimmuh and the rest are starting to come out of the closet!

Voting Pinkie Pelosi (you saw it first here folks!)in, we are seeing this scum in their true colors. Expect it to get worse.

I think their idea is to set up an alternative government of Quislings (WWII Norway puppet of Nazi Germany) which will surrender to the EU/China/N.Korea/Venezuela/S.Africa and the other leftist paradises.

Aren't you looking forward to living by the regulations put up by those superior humans, the E.U. bureaucrats?

[Teacher317]

believing that we deserve to be the richest and most powerful and influential nation in the world," the 78-year-old former president said.

Mr Carter, exactly who DOES deserve those titles, if not the nation that worked so hard to achieve it? Should we lower production so that someone else might claim those titles, just because we feel some misguided sense of liberal guilt? Should we give Zimbabwe control of all of our missiles so that they may be the most powerful nation? Should we give away all of our wealth and earnings to some Tongan tribe who doesn't believe in doing more work that is necessary to feed yourself? Should we tell every other nation to NEVER do as we do, because we don't want to influence anybody, and we feel guilty that other naitons might want to try to emulate the greatest nation the planet has ever seen?

[sauropod]

To Mr. Peanut:

STFU! Thanks.

[Woahhs]

Good God! This vain old bastard just can't let it go.

I'm sorry Mr. President. You were WRONG. Mr. Reagan was right. Détente was the Russian plan of conquest.

[Diana Rose]

Jimmy, Are you sniffing the peanut butter again?

[texson66]

Sounds to me like peanut butter has certainly clogged 'ole Jimmy's brains!Thank the Lord, he is NOT president!

[DeFault User]

Another president succumbs to Alzheimers. So sad. Why do idiots keep interviewing him?

Unfortunately, he and his party have been in that state of dementia for years. As I understand it, the Dims "logic" is something like this, "If the US disarms and sets an example for the rest of the world, they will be so inspired they will naturally follow our noble lead." This was their strategy for dealing with the Soviet Union and apparently continues as their preferred method of dealing with whatever threat the US faces.

[bandleader]

Jimmy Cawtuh is about as effective a peace-maker as Neville Chamberlain was!My favorite PEACEMAKER is a Colt SAA .45!!

[bandleader]

I think that one of "W's" priorities should be taking another look at The Panama Canal "Giveaway" before the CHI-COMS become too well intrenched there!!

[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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[knighthawk]

Which on is the real commie?

[Vince Ferrer]

Carter forgets that Bush DID begin his presidency with unilateral disarmament. He cut our nuclear weapons stockpile. It didn't prevent the attack did it, Mr ex-president?

[aculeus]

Does CNN not understand that very few people want to watch an hour-long interview with this jerk and his wife?

Apparently not, which is why Fox is whipping their butt.

[lavaroise]

This is so ridiculous. Someone tell Carter that the good guys can have the bioweapons and not the bad guys. Duh!

[lavaroise]

Coming to think of it, 1. South Korea is disarmed of bio weapons, so the North should disarm of those 2. North Korea has a greater infantry army than that of South Korea's and the whole US's armed forces

3. Why in the world Carter approves and encourages North Korea's armament with bioweapons????? To kill Americans? This guy should go to jail.

[lavaroise]

4. And as for America's personal armament, it is nonexistent.

5. But America has the duty to arm with bioweapons, NOTABLY THOSE VIRUSES THAT KILL NOCIVE BACTERIAS!!!!