"The U.S. continues to suffer terrible embarrassment and a blow to our reputation ... because of reports concerning abuses of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo," Carter said after a two-day human rights conference at his Atlanta center.
Such reports have surfaced despite President Bush's "bold reminder that America is determined to promote freedom and democracy around the world," Carter said.
All of a sudden Jimmy Carter is concerned about terrible embarassments to America? He doesn't consider that the reports surface because the people we are fighting are lying to get people like Carter to fall for their accusations? It doesn't occur to him that even when some accusations are true they pale in comparison to what our enemies do and that we punish our guilty anyway?
And the call to charge the inmates or release them is ridiculous. They are unlawful combatants held for fighting us, not civilian criminals awaiting trial. Indeed, if we charged them with simply fighting us that would be illegal.
We don't need to charge them to hold them. We could, under international law, just shoot them. So just pipe down with the outrage over their treatment and status.
But what else do we expect for the one-man national embarassment who is Jimmy Carter?
After spending time in Venezuela he failed to see any problems with the sham election Chavez held.
And in the recent Ethiopian elections, Jimmy Carter again saw no evil. Even the EU of all people were mad at him for blessing the fraudulant elections there!
The EU report also said former U.S. President Carter, who led a team of 50 election observers, undermined the electoral process and EU criticism with "his premature blessing of the elections and early positive assessment of the results."
But blind to real abuses, Jimmy Carter sees all at Gitmo. He'll bless anything but our country.
Keep Gitmo open and Jimmy Carter's mouth closed. Now that would be good for America.
