Thursday, October 11, 2007

JIMMY CARTER UPBRAIDS BUSH ON TORTURE AND CHENEY ON WAR MONGERING




The country needs more of former president Jimmy Carter saying what needs to be said. Bush is a disaster and Cheney is a war monger. Dan Froomkin of washingtonpost.com has a full run down of Carter's thoughts and words and more.

Writes Froomkin:

"Former president Jimmy Carter is once again lambasting the current occupants of the White House. In one interview yesterday, Carter accused President Bush of abandoning the basic principles of human rights, engaging in torture, and lying about it. In another, he called Vice President Cheney a disaster for our country and a militant who is "trying again to promote once again what might well be a counterproductive and catastrophic military venture.""

Froomkin also provides a link to a video of Carter's interview on the BBC. Writes Froomkin:

"Here's the video of Carter's interview with the BBC's Matt Frei, discussing Cheney's preference for force over diplomacy.

""As usual, Dick Cheney is wrong," Carter said. "He's a militant who avoided any service of his own in the military and he has been most forceful in the last 10 years or more in fulfilling some of his more ancient commitments that the United States has a right to inject its power through military means in other parts of the world. And here he's trying again to promote once again what might well be a counterproductive and catastrophic military venture. . . .

""You know, he's been a disaster for our country. I think he's been overly persuasive on President George Bush and quite often he's prevailed.

""One of his main commitments was to go into Iraq on false pretenses and he still maintains that those false pretenses are accurate.""

1 comment:

  1. THE MEOWS IN THE MEWS

    The taste is for inflicting pain
    From which right-thinking souls refrain,
    But, as the cohort will explain,
    It must be done, "or else no gain."

    Succinctly thus the hostile crew
    Itself expresses; but the view
    Terror and hatred only do
    To counter terror, is not new.

    (You thought Christ put the lie to rest,
    But, as it seems, he knew not best--
    So words of Neocons suggest
    As keep him in the tomb cold pressed.)

    Regardless the efficacy
    Or not, their way is not for me:
    I will not torture, neither be
    A party to their villainy.

    Aggressive war I must denounce,
    And with each syllable pronounce
    My opposition; though they trounce
    Dissent, of truth they have no ounce.

    (A body lain before a tank
    May be profane with none to thank,
    But though ´tis slain while keeping rank
    Let heaven´s blessing prove no prank.)

    This is Rat´s Alley
    Dingy and smelly;
    The cat O´Malley
    Scratches his belly.

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