Decision ‘08

Carter: Bush Should Do Nothing, Or Fail Miserably, Like I Did

Former President Jimmy Carter, by any measure the least impressive president of the last 75 years, has once again gone on the record criticizing the Iraq War and Guantanamo Bay:

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 instead recommends the ‘Nation in Crisis’ strategy he employed so successfully during the Iranian hostage situation, and a revivial of the famous ‘malaise’ speech…

UPDATE 4:19 p.m.: more on Carter (including video!) from Trey Jackson and Atlas Shrugs…

8 Responses to “Carter: Bush Should Do Nothing, Or Fail Miserably, Like I Did”

1 Dmac Says:
July 31st, 2005 at 4:47 pm
Time to send in the killer rabbit…
2 Colin Says:
July 31st, 2005 at 8:01 pm
I would like Jimmah to explain, exactly, why freeing twenty-some-odd million people is in any way unjust. Just for a moment, let’s pretend Iraq was unnessessary. Does that still make it unjust? Are rape rooms and mass graves what passes for “just” in Carter’s mind? Are free elections unjust in Mr. Peanut’s peanut-sized brain? With statements like that, and with the title of ex-president, Carter may be one of the most dangerous men alive today. He’s clearly one of tthe stupidest and most bitter, and I don’t care how many Habitat for Humanity houses he’s built.
3 Miriam Says:
July 31st, 2005 at 8:25 pm
Can’t anyone shut him up?
4 Mark Coffey Says:
July 31st, 2005 at 9:24 pm
Colin, don’t you know Jimmah’s a Nobel Peace Prizer Winner, like Yasir Arafat? - oh, wait…
5 too many steves Says:
July 31st, 2005 at 11:06 pm
Miriam, do exactly what you are supposed to do when someone bothers or teases you: ignore him. That’s what I’ve done for most of the 25 years since he became an ex-President and it seems to work very nicely. I mean, my wife says the veins in my neck don’t pop out so often since I stopped paying attention to him.
6 AcademicElephant Says:
July 31st, 2005 at 11:25 pm
This man is your “elder statesman” and you want to be taken seriously as a party on issues of national defense? Give me a break.
7 Clint Says:
August 1st, 2005 at 3:42 pm
Colin-

But, but… “National Sovereignty”!!!! — just because the man was filling mass graves doesn’t mean that he wasn’t the legal, internationally recognized government of Iraq.

Why he even had a seat in the United Nations!

If you put those phrases in a paper bag and shake them up, I’m sure you can come up with the argument a Kossack would make for why President Bush is an international war criminal and terrorist for removing Saddam from power.
8 Andy Says:
August 2nd, 2005 at 3:20 pm
What’s peanut head doing at a baptist convention? Didn’t he excomunicate the baptists lock, stock & barrel a few years ago because “he knew Jesus and they ain’t no Jesus”?

Kimmah should really stick to what he knows and was successful at — which ain’t foreign policy nor defending democracy. To wit, Iran, Afghanistan, Panama Canal, Peruvian elections…