As a Brit I agree with everything Ex-President Jimmy Carter has just said about Tony Blair. What ...?

Question

do you Americans think.

He said, Blairs support for the Iraq war, was, blind, subservient and and abominable. and was also a major tragedy for the world.

Jeeper peeper, did you not know that the Labour party DID eventually get rid of Blair.

Answer 1

As a proud American I agree 100% with former President Jimmy Carter. As is typical, the neo-cons are livid that anyone dare criticize the Sitcom President:

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/world/story/3971553p-4585178c.html

Carter inherited a very difficult political situation from his predecessors, Nixon and Ford, following a tumultuous situation in Vietnam, a tepid post-war economy, and gas prices. Given what he had to work with, I commend him for what he was able to achieve and DON'T consider him the worst president (that title is best suited for the current occupant of the White House).

Carter is a Nobel Peace Prize winner and dedicated humanitarian who's done more for his fellow man outside of office that George W. Bush has done in his entire lifetime. In fact, Bush is the complete opposite of Carter...a war-mongering, pampered pseudo-Christian whose only true interest is the bottom line and pandering to radical conservatives.

Hence, GW Bush's 27% approval rating......a sad commentary indeed on him and his follower's delusional take on world affairs and life in general.

Great question! Peace.

ADDENDUM: FOS, assuming you're bothering to read up on things, I posted a link containing Carter's statements on Blair and Bush. Next time simply enter "Jimmy Carter" into news.yahoo.com or similiar search engine.

BTW, Carter's Nobel Peace Prize DOES mean something, or the shrill protests of neo-cons here wouldn't be so pronounced. GW Bush will only score the Nobel Booby Prize if such an award is created.

Answer 2

Jimmy Carter was one of the worst presidents we have EVER had.

As an American I can tell you that you dont know what your talking about. Tony Blair is 10 times the leader - as is GWB - then jimmy could have ever dreamed of being

Answer 3

Don't listen to these American fools. They wouldn't know what sense was if it punched their teeth down their throats. I find Republicans to be the worst of the bunch. To say that they are moronic doesn't do them justice. Whatever kind of President Jimmy Carter was doesn't change the fact that he was telling the truth. Which is what some Americans can't seem to wrap their tiny little minds around.

Answer 4

Bravo for Carter. For someone in the United States that was very respected as a president, his words have a huge impact to the rest of the world.

It doesn't matter how many people say such things from the outside, but to hear it said from a colleague has a much more profound effect on the rest of the world.

It's not a coincidence that there have been comparisons of Bush to Hitler.

To quote a line from the X-files "The truth is out there." Only it isn't science fiction. Evils and atrocities have occurred and rights and treaties were overturned and violated and the leader of a country killed, and although yes, Saddam did horrible things, that kind of thing exists everywhere in the middle east....who cares about Africa and all the people butchered and starving etc. while corrupt leaders get rich off diamond mines etc.?

You take one visible "evil man" and make him the scapegoat for a cause that isn't even real....come on...I think it's sad that people want to have faith in something which doesn't exist, and in a leader that is not what he claims to be.

Good for Carter. Obviously it takes one to know one if you know what I mean....he has been there done that...and if he has spoken out and made these shocking statements, I think there is a valid reason for his taking such a risk.

PS: Why is it ok for Bush to pump billions into the hands of religious leaders of a certain (questionable) faith and that's ok? Seems to me they know how to keep people in their place....talk about Jesus turning over in his heavenly grave....

And bravo Alec...well said.

Answer 5

Looking through a lot of the answers to this question one gets the impression that a lot of people think that Carter was a lousy president, however no matter how bad a job he made of the presidency he could never have been as bad as the incumbent half-wit Bush.
Carter did get it spot on with his reference to our incumbent half wit, the delusional, insane actor they call Tony Blair.

Answer 6

I just finished reading the Sunday paper and saw nothing about Jimmy Carter making comments about Tony Blair. I did see the comments he made about President Bush and the Bush administration. According to a Jimmy Carter biographer, Jimmy Carter is really a private person and tends not to make comments about the failures of other Presidents or their administrations. That he chose to make comments about the failure of the Bush Presidency and the problems of the administration has caused worldwide is really quite telling and should not be taken lightly. It takes a lot for someone who normally keeps quiet to actually be moved to speak.

I know that Carter was not an effective President and had his own issues, I am just saying that there must be a reason why Carter feels moved to speak.

Answer 7

Answer: No! You, As a Brit, where it's every little boys dream to be queen...Should be able to easily identify the rantings of a failed politician like Carter. His was the most failed American economy since the Great Depression! In an attempt to save some face historically, that gutless, failed, and cowardly excuse for a statesman knows that he will NEVER be big...Belittles his betters.
A monumental task as there are just so many of those.
Jimmy's breath has to this day the stench of every third world despot and dictator feet from his submissive oral attention...
You Know! Kissing their feet!
Some claimed that he aimed higher...They may well be correct, I hesitate to speculate.

Answer 8

Jimmy Carter Slams Bush Administration
Former president cites international relations, environment, faith-based initiatives

by Associated Press staff
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – President George W. Bush’s administration is “the worst in history” when it comes to international relations, former President Jimmy Carter said Friday, taking aim at the White House’s policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy.

The criticism from Carter, which a biographer says is unprecedented from the 39th president, also took aim at Bush’s environmental policies and the administration’s “quite disturbing” faith-based initiative funding.

“I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history. The overt reversal of America’s basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me,” Carter said in a copyright story in Saturday’s edition of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

“We now have endorsed the concept of pre-emptive war where we go to war with another nation militarily, even though our own security is not directly threatened, if we want to change the regime there or if we fear that some time in the future our security might be endangered. But that’s been a radical departure from all previous administration policies.”

Carter, who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, criticized Bush for having “zero peace talks” in Israel. Carter also said the administration “abandoned or directly refuted” every negotiated nuclear arms agreement, as well as environmental efforts by other presidents.

Carter offered his harshest assessment for the White House’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, which helped religious charities receive $2.15 billion in federal grants in fiscal year 2005 alone.

“The policy from the White House has been to allocate funds to religious institutions, even those that channel those funds exclusively to their own particular group of believers in a particular religion. Those things in my opinion are quite disturbing,” Carter said. “As a traditional Baptist, I’ve always believed in separation of church and state and honored that premise when I was president, and so have all other presidents, I might say, except this one.”

White House spokesman Blair C. Jones declined to comment, referring questions to the Republican National Committee. Republican National Committee spokeswoman Amber Wilkerson questioned why Carter, who teaches a Sunday School teacher in his hometown of Plains, Ga., would attack Bush.

“Apparently, Sunday mornings in Plains for former President Carter includes hurling reckless accusations at your fellow man,” she said. “It’s hard to take a lecture on foreign policy seriously from President Carter considering he’s the same person who challenged Ronald Reagan’s strategy for the Cold War.”

Douglas Brinkley, a Tulane University presidential historian and Carter biographer, described Carter’s comments as unprecedented.

“This is the most forceful denunciation President Carter has ever made about an American president,” Brinkley said. “When you call somebody the worst president, that’s volatile. Those are fighting words.”
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Thank you Jimmy Carter

Answer 9

This Dutch guy living in Belgium agrees totally with Carters assessments.

Answer 10

I question the sensibility of anyone who agrees with Carter about anything except building for Habitat for Humanity.

Edit:
I am amazed at how many here at YA seem to think that receiving a Nobel Peace Prize really means anything. They gave one to that filthy, murdering Yasir Arafat, too, you know. That's fine company for old Jimmy to be in.

EDIT: Just so you know what Carter's administration meant to the US and the world:
I’d laugh at Jimmy but I’m too tired from waiting in the gas lines because of the oil embargo. Oh wait! That was *his* administration. Hostages? Failed rescues? No, that’s not Bush either. Kidnapping Egyptian and Israeli leaders? No, not Bush. “Peace” agreement leading to Egyptian leader’s assassination? No, that’s not Bush either. Yeah, Jimmy had a phenomenal record of international relations from which to preach against Bush. Didn’t Jimmy decide to give Panama up? How was his Cold War record? Well, you get the point