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Former 911 commission member Tim Roemer on FOX news this morning said that Jimmy Carter should head up all of the rebuilding of the cities destroyed by Katrina. Huh? Brian Kilmeade, when he heard that Roemer's comment said, "What?" I say, Oh goody, Let's put Mr. Peanut in charge. Isn't it bad enough that we have to suffer through Bill Clinton making the rounds with former Pres. Bush soliciting Katrina handouts.

Former President Jimmy Carter said today, while in Birmingham, England, the detention of terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base was an embarrassment and had given extremists an excuse to attack the U.S. Carter also criticized the U.S.-led war in Iraq as "unnecessary and unjust." "I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A.," he told a news conference at the Baptist World Alliance's centenary conference. "I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and...