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shawa
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 Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:01 pm Post subject: Carter: Guantanamo Detentions Disgraceful |
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I've got to quit reading the news today! Just one article after another throwing me into fits of anger!! Now, it's the SANCTIMONIOUS JIMMUH!!
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| Quote: | Carter: Guantanamo Detentions Disgraceful
By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD, Associated Press Writer
Former President Carter said Saturday the detention of terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base was an embarrassment and had given extremists an excuse to attack the United States.
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 in Birmingham, England. "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 justify their despicable acts."
Carter said, however, that terrorist acts could not be justified, and that while Guantanamo "may be an aggravating factor ... it's not the basis of terrorism."
Critics of President Bush's administration have long accused the U.S. government of unjustly detaining terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base on the southeastern tip of Cuba. Hundreds of men have been held indefinitely at the prison, without charge or access to lawyers.
"What has happened at Guantanamo Bay ... does not represent the will of the American people," Carter said Saturday. "I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people."
Earlier this month, Carter called for the Guantanamo prison to be shut down, saying reports of abuses there were an embarassment to the United States. He also said that the United States needs to make sure no detainees are held incommunicado and that all are told the charges against them.
Carter, who won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, has been an outspoken critic of the Iraq war.
"I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false," he said Saturday.
The Baptist World Alliance, comprising more than 200 Baptist unions around the world, was formed in London in 1905. The headquarters of the alliance, which meets in a different location every five years, moved to the United States in 1947.
An estimated 12,700 delegates gathered in the city of Birmingham in central England for the conference. Carter, a Sunday school teacher in his hometown of Plains, Ga., was due to lead a Bible study lesson during the conference.
He praised British police and intelligence services for the swift arrests in connection with the July 21 failed bombing attempts on London's transit system.
"I'm very proud to be in a nation that stands so stalwart against terrorism with us," he said. "The people of my country have united our hearts and sympathy for the tragedy that you have suffered from terrorism." |
| Quote: | | "What has happened at Guantanamo Bay ... does not represent the will of the American people," Carter said Saturday. "I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. |
So YOU say! Jimmuh!! YOU don't speak for the American people!!
You are an EX president who should who should stand up for this country or else SHUT THE EFF UP!!!
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Rdtf
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Location: BUSHville
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Me to Jimmy Carter -
'You as a President was an EMBARRASSMENT!' Have you taught Castro the words to Kumbaya yet?
No matter how many houses you build for the needy, it will never release you from the guilt of destroying southern Florida with Cuba's criminals. Shame on you, weak little man!'
ahhh, that feels better.  |
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coldwarvet
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First impressions are lasting impressions. 1974 TV add older man walking threw a peanut field in a plaid shirt and denim. Hello I am Jimmy Carter and I am running for President. I thought it was a joke.
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GM Strong
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Jimmuh is a joke. I am grateful for one thing though. He convinced me I was no Democrat. Ronald Reagan showed me where my real politics belonged. Peanutman is a farcicial immitation of a chief executive. He should go spend a few weeks hobnobing at Club Gitmo and see reality. His naivete has fatal potential.
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gmez2001
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Carter has moved somewhere between leftist,socialist,appeaser,land baron peanut farmer capitalist and of late Bush Basher.
Sound confusing..............that's Jimmah.
First Carter then Clintoooon.......didn't take long to solidify my conservatism and Reaganomics.
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rparrott21
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Location: Mckinney, Texas
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The worst president of the 20th century says that it is bad, then it is good.
Jimmah's tracke record:
19-21% mortgage rates
8-11% inflation rates
8-11% unemployment rates
-2-0% GDP growth rates
the worst morale of the American people since the 1930's
and the god father of modern day terrorism
If he says it is good then it is bad |
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gmez2001
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Ranger friend tells me they weren't issued enough bullets for their guns due to the military cutbacks.
Absolutely pitiful.........guy needs to stick with peanut farming.
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dusty
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Location: East Texas
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What should we expect from a guy who's afraid of rabbits.
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rparrott21
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The only Carter you could trust.. |
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wwIIvetsdaughter
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That knucklehead Carter is just what the Islamo-facists ordered, a useless idiot undermining the cause of (ostensibly) his country while serving up a plate of "see, even their former President thinks America's actions at Gitmo justify our attacks!"  |
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PhantomSgt
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Location: GUAM, USA
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It was announced today that former President Jimmah Carter would use his Habitat for Humanity Foundation to build a Halfway House for the inmates of the US Government Guantanamo Bay Penal Colony.
Carter generously donated the land for the project from his vast personal holdings in Plains, Georgia.
Former President Carter said "he was looking forward to bonding with the repatriated terrorists and introducing them to his grandchildren" at a Bar B Q to be hosted by him for the new residents of Plains.
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