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Friday, October 12, 2007

Worst President in U.S. History Condemns Bush

James Earl Carter, the worst President in the 20th century if not the entirety of U.S. History, has condemned President Bush for supposedly approving the torture of war prisoners.

Wolf Blitzer of CNN admittedly turned in one of the finest interviews of his career when he played host to ex-President Carter on Wednesday.

A good reporter knows when to interrupt an interviewee and when to simply sit back and let the person talk. Blitzer's instincts in this case told him that he needed to simply let Carter talk.

The thing about Jimmy Carter is that by letting him talk you give him enough rope to hang him. It is difficult to understand or ascertain the internal 'logic' that leads Carter to make the outlandish statements for which he is known.

It is also chilling to think that we actually elected this man to the U.S. Presidency in 1976.

Carter asserted that not only did he suspect that Bush approved torture but that he 'knows it for a fact.'

How? Was he there when such a decision was made? Was he present at Gitmo to witness torture? And if so, who was tortured and who did it?

Of course Carter has not witnessed any of these things. Nor does he have any 'inside knowledge' that the U.S. tortures prisoners of war.

But this is not the only fantasy land assertion made by Carter. He further stated that with regard to Iran, they are no threat to the U.S., Bush should not authorize limited strategic attacks on their nuclear bomb facilities, and that the U.S. 'should simply talk to the Iranians.'

In the first place, Iran is a real threat not only to the U.S. but to our friends in Europe. Our European allies have expressed grave concern about Iran's ability to plunge the world into another World War.

That fact aside, Carter would deal with the threat by simply 'talking.'

Remember, there is a long history here that must be kept in mind. While President, James Earl Carter was faced with the gravity of the Iranian threat and dealt with it by 'talking.'

The result? American hostages were seized by the new Ayatollah regime after the exile of the Shah of Iran, and this nation was plunged into over a year's worth of tension regarding our citizens.

And why were the hostages finally released? Because one Ronald Reagan had promised during the 1980 Presidential campaign that he would unleash the full force of the U.S. military against Iran unless the hostages were released.

On the day Ronald Wilson Reagan was sworn into office in January of 1981, Iran released the hostages.

The abject failure of 'the Carter Doctrine' from top to bottom, including domestic economic policy, gives the ex-President very little credibility with which to condemn a sitting U.S. President.

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