President Carter: Bush Has Brought US "International Disgrace"

[brettdale]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906T.shtml

President Carter: Bush Has Brought US "International Disgrace"

Reno, Nevada - Former President Carter urged Nevadans on Thursday to elect his Democratic son, Jack, to the Senate to help combat a Bush administration he says has brought "international disgrace" to the United States.

"This country is now more sharply divided that it has ever been," the former president told a crowd of at least 300 at the University of Nevada, Reno.

"I've been deeply embarrassed as a civil rights advocate that we have had the American government stand convicted around the world as one of the greatest abusers of civil rights," said Carter, the 2002 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

"What has happened the last five years has brought discouragement and sometimes international disgrace to our great country," he said.

[malaise]

1. Temm them Carter n/t

[DemonFighterLives]

2. Now there is a man who understands the world

dubby is a total disgrace and should never have been placed at the front. In fact, I don't know of a job as a public servant that I would give him.
Worst President ever. Carter will go down as one of the best of this generation.
:woohoo:

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[Horse with no Name]

4. LOL why does this not surprise me?

This place has been crawling with your kind for the last few days.
He was NOT responsible for the mad mullahs. Perhaps you should find out which of our Presidents financed Iran.
Perhaps you should also read the book "October Surprise" by Gary Sick.
However, something tells me you aren't interested in the truth, or are too stupid to know what it is...or, what it isn't.

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[Horse with no Name]

6. Oh please

I wish you would choke on your regurgitated talking points.
But if you are really interested:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/16/newsid_2530000/2530475.stm

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[ScreamingMeemie]

10. How so...trouble reading this evening?

:hi: Welcome to DU! :toast:

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[ScreamingMeemie]

18. I'm sorry to hear that...Mole on your face? Afraid of being seen?

:shrug:

[Sydnie]

25. Yep, they're there alright

[Horse with no Name]

14. Because I seriously doubt you want the truth

I will excerpt the book that I told you to read--"October Surprise" by Gary Sick--who, incidentally served on the National Security Council under Ford, Carter, and Reagan. He has a doctorate in political science from Columbia and is an adjunct professor in Middle Eastern politics.
He's the real deal.

You might also want to read about the Iran-Contra Affair because it is closely linked with this.

>>>>snip
The antecedents of the illicit Republican contacts with Iran in 1980 can be traced to the taking of the hostages in November 1979, or to the overthrow of the shah earlier that year, or even to the nature of the shah's regime and his relations with Israel and the United States. The secret dealings were the product of strategic interests, political rivalries and personal ambitions in three different countries: the United States, Iran and Israel. It was, however, the dynamics of the US Presidential race that led William Casey to initiate contact with two Iranian intermediaries, Cyrus and Jamshid Hashemi, early in 1980.

Why would the Republicans run such a risk?We will probably never have a firsthand answer to that question. The evidence suggests that Casey and others may have seen possible manipulation of the hostage crisis by Carter as a more serious threat to their election plans than the risk of being caught in secret dealings with Iran. There was genuine and widespread concern within the Reagan-Bush campaign that Carter would launch and October surprise that would win the election.

You can buy the book and read more of how your boys have manipulated this country almost to ruin.

[derby378]

7. I smell bacon...

Heavy on the lard.

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[Kingofalldems]

12. Howcome the GOP is so corrupt?

Bet you had a really bad day today.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

17. I suppose someone has to say it:

Welcome to DU!

[Jim Sagle]

27. Eat my shit.

[rzemanfl]

11. Welcome to DU-you won't be here long. n/t

[Sydnie]

13. LOL

[tblue]

21. TROLL ALERT!

[sweetheart]

15. Why didn't they speak up earlier

I commend all those who are stepping forward to show their dissent with this state of affairs,
but why did people wait so many years, until the damage was already done?

Now, one after another, great people read speeches to the funeral,
dressed in black, weeping for a lost pax,
pissed away in an iraqi urinal,
surplus detatched, dictator's pox.

That is why we need a new federal,
system that counts a balloting box.
But oh the disgrace in the asian thrall,
hunting bankruptcy, 'til justice mocks.

Oh, did we not say, edmund burke's shaking head,
tyrants' had their way, republic is dead.

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[sweetheart]

22. "muslim rioting" indeed

You're really on to something there, maybe if we hadn't been bombing
and supporting dictatorship across their countries for so many years,
'blowing shit up' would not be happening, and ignorant racists republicans
would stay home play grand theft auto.

3000 civilians murdered in the WTC attacks, and 50,000 dead civilians,
the loss of global military defense capability, and the weakest strategic
position the US has had for over a century.

Republicans are just cowards who kill other people's children when they
can't get enough of killing their own. Its not noble, its not defending
the country from your dreaded 'rioting muslums', its degenerate and
low, ignorant and clueless that the world of international nation states
is far more educated and competetive with the US than the media indicate,
as americans are not unique in any way, in terms of barbarity...

Torture! is out of hand.

[Sydnie]

24. Bless you sweetheart

You said a mouthful there. :hug:

[sweetheart]

26. republican standard time

'They're still trying to sell us their failed domino theory.'

[BlueIris]

20. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT CARTER.

K&R.

And Jimmy Carter kicks my ass. LOVE him.

[gordianot]

23. Correct and more national leaders need to say the same every opportunity.

No matter the issue or reason every Democrat local, State, National level who accesses media should preface remarks with 7 words "The Bush Administration is a National disgrace".

Maybe just maybe the media and public would get the message.