Carter criticized Iraq war

[Phlegm]

Former President Jimmy Carter criticized the current administration handling of terror suspects and the Iraq war.

From Associated Press.

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.

Mr. 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."

The former president 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," Mr. Carter said Saturday. "I'm embarrassed about it, I think it's wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people."

Earlier this month, Mr. Carter called for the Guantanamo prison to be shut down, saying reports of abuses there were an embarrassment 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.

Mr. 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. Mr. Carter, a Sunday school teacher in his hometown of Plains, Ga., was 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."

[Martrae]

Yeah, his solution to terrorist threats really was the best. Anyone else remember the hostages?

[Phlegm]

Yeah, his solution to terrorist threats really was the best. Anyone else remember the hostages?

He did tried to have them rescue.... except that the rescue party crashed into the sands.

[Narrock]

Carter should just STFU. What an idiot.

[Langston]

Carter is a great ex-president... but really, he should stick to building houses.

[kaharthemad]

and growing peanuts.

[xaoshaen]

Excoriation from Carter on matters of foreign policy is praise of the highest order.

[Captain Insano]

and growing peanuts.

and beating slaves! actually I have no idea what I'm talking about. Disregard post.

[brinstar]

and growing peanuts.

and beating slaves! actually I have no idea what I'm talking about. Disregard post.

done and done!

[Captain Insano]

jumpin jehosephats!

I was worried for a second there.

[Rust]

Carter showed how a forceful, effective president who was impeached was succeeded by a weak, moralistic type who got America into terrible problems in the Mideast, permanently turning a whole country against the USA as a source of terrorism.

Thank God that could *never* happen again.

--R.

[Minrott]

Haha, that's funny and sad. Oh well.

[Captain Insano]

911 wouldn't have happened, nor would we be in Iraq if Clinton (D) has grown a pair of nuts and blew up Osama and his buddies during the three opportunities he had.

I lay this whole mess at the feet of the democrats. Their vagina-politics and lack of action lead America to where it is now. Had they made tough decisions and been proactive against these known terrorists chances are we wouldn't be at war..

I don't like Bush. In many ways I think he is a shitty president, but it's about godamn time someone went after these extremists faggots and their totalitarian regimes instead of sitting around waiting for them to come to our soil and fuck us up.

I hope we are seeing the beginning of a world wide revolt against Islam and it's followers.

[Tuggan]

"I dont want to hear anymore about this terrorist stuff"

[Zanchief]

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Is it true now?

[Phlegm]

Is it true now?

maybe a couple more time.

[Langston]

Yes.

[Martrae]

It doesn't matter. With the TSA targetting grandmas and people with kids we are bound to have a few incidents like the London bombings. But at least we'll have been politically correct in our searches!

[Langston]

Kids smuggle cocaine in their teddy bears... not bombs.

Sheez... I thought EVERYONE knew this.

[Captain Insano]

those kids these days sure love their blow!