Do you believe Jimmy Carter's comments about the USA torturing prisoners, and his remarks about Dick Cheney?

Question

The former President had some harsh words for the current admin.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21246739/

What do you think?

Answer 1

I think President Carter is an honest man who isn't afraid to take a position when he sees harm being done to his country.

Answer 2

I didn't like Carter as a president but I think his comments are valid and lots of people agree with him. Looking at Cheney's approval ratings I would say the majority of Americans agree with him.

I have suspected that we have been torturing people for a long time in this administration. Bush and his administration can clear this up by disclosing the methods that they interrogate prisoners. Its that simple. What are they hiding? They don't have to divulge the information that they obtained. They just have to divulge the techniques.

Answer 3

Carter was a horrible president (I lived through his presidency) and is an even more horrible ex president. It's like he can't do enough damage to this country, like the little pink bunny on TV, he keeps going and going and going. He needs to retire to his peanut farm in Gawgah and leave well enough alone. Maroon!

Answer 4

I think that Jimmy Carter "rabbit hunter" is getting senile in his old age. I know he bought his way into that Nobel Prize and his latest actions prove he's gone off the edge. He was a wimp as a president and he's still a wimp that has no clue when it comes to actions in other countries.

Answer 5

Yes on the torture comments, I said the very same thing last week on this forum about Bush having his own definition of torture. I very rarely comment on Cheney, I let his actions speak for themselves. I see his own spokesman has no comment one way or another so I assume Carter is on track.

Answer 6

Jimmy must have hit his head one too many times while building those homes.

Jimmy has no problem with those who are strapping bombs to children and targeting Jews.

Yet he says Dick Cheney is out of line.

Some expresidents need to keep their mouths shut and thought a fool.

Answer 7

It's not just Carter who says that the US is involved in torture - Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International also say it. So too do the FBI, the British Government, the UN and the EU.

If I came round your house, slapped you around, set dogs on you and half-drowned you in order to make you confess to being a terrorist, wouldn't you call that torture?

Perhaps it's different because the people it's happening to aren't American.

Answer 8

Jimmy Carter only said what MOST people in this country know to be true.

This is why the world hates us, because of George W Bush

Give me a break are you trying to say that the Geneva Conventions are wrong?

Answer 9

Regarding torture, the administration insists that the US does not torture prisoners. Yet I suspect that most Americans would consider some of the treatments used on some few prisoners to be torture.

Answer 10

I think Jimmy needs to get some meds. He is very far left lately. He wants to appease Islam Fascism. Also, he did not want to debate Alan Morton Dershowitz about his anti-Israel remarks.

Therefore, James Earl Carter knowly lying to the American people. I can't believe the clown.

Answer 11

I'm no Dick Cheney fan, but I do feel the former President Carter was out of line with his comments. If you read the history books very carefully, you'll find that he has been the worst President this country has ever had. He has little room to be talking.