WASHINGTON, April 11, 2008
Jimmy Carter Draws Criticism From Condi
Sect. Of State And Dem. House Members Urge Former Prez To Reconsider Hamas Meeting
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier take part in a joint news conference, April 11, 2008, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Former President Jimmy Carter (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Carter has not confirmed the plans to meet Khaled Mashaal, but Hamas has said the former Democratic president sent an envoy to Damascus requesting a meeting with the militant group's officials.
"I find it hard to understand what is going to be gained by having discussions with Hamas about peace when Hamas is, in fact, the impediment to peace," Rice said at a press event with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Rice was responding to a question about Carter's plans but did not mention him by name.
"Hamas is a terrorist organization," she said, repeating the Bush administration's explanation for why it will not meet with members of the group.
The State Department says it twice advised Carter against meeting any representative of Hamas. A Carter-Mashaal meeting would be the first public contact in two years between a prominent American figure and Hamas officials.
A press release from the Carter Center said the former president was to lead a study mission to Israel, the West Bank, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan as part of his "ongoing effort to support peace, democracy and human rights in the region."
Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his work in mediating conflicts while in office and his humanitarian travels for the Carter Center since. One of his mediations was the 1978 Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel, for which Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin were awarded the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize.
Several Democratic members of the House plan to forward a letter to Carter Monday urging him to reconsider his scheduled meeting with leaders of Hamas during his next visit to the Middle East. Reps. Artur Davis of Alabama, Shelley Berkley of Nevada, Adam Schiff of California and Adam Smith of Washington state asked Carter to drop the planned meeting.
The letter said "we believe that your efforts to forge peace in the region will be overshadowed by this meeting." It said Carter's meeting could "confer legitimacy" on a group that embraces violence.
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- Condi (aka Condyloma acuminata, or genital warts) has done nothing to further the peace process except drag her feet and buy fabulous outfits so she looks good in public. But watch out; she''s contagious!
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- You are correct, of course. Britney does have some talent.
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Posted by Nancy_Naive at 12:37 PM : Apr 14, 2008
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it takes a liberal to see talent from a person such as britney..HEY she IS living an ideal liberal lifestyle..a lifestyle where she can be as reckless as she wants to be and NOT ACCOUNTABLE (because she has a boohoohoo sob story). - Reply to this comment
- Posted by REALITYCALLS
BTW forgot to point out in the last post - by the late ''30''s elections in Germany were about as freely democratic as they were under Saddam in the ''90''s. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by REALITYCALLS
No Britney me - Brittany is the proper way to spell the name.
It is interesting to note that at the time of the "Cliveden set" the group to which I assume you refer, Cliveden, the mansion was owned by the Astor family, who I believe were Americans. - Reply to this comment
- LibH8er et al -
What all you craphead righty-tighties need to get into your obviously fossilized brains is that Hamas is the DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED government of Palestine. Just because you all don''t like the results of the elections (just as with Iran) does not make any less binding. The fact that our cretin-in-chief takes his toys back to the sand-box and pouts whenever anyone suggests he talks to a Hamas or Iran rep is a sad commentary on the US today. I realise it is hard for you eejits to understand but most of the rest of the world does not think the way you do. - Reply to this comment
- I have to give President Carter credit for humbling himself, since his presidency, to the point that a mere Secretary of State appointed by a mental defect feels comfortable enough to openly criticize his actions.
I bet Jimmy doesn%u2019t mind. - Reply to this comment
- JERUSALEM - Israel%u2019s secret service has declined to assist U.S. agents guarding former U.S. President Jimmy Carter during a visit in which Israeli leaders have shunned him, U.S. sources told Reuters on Monday.
-Jimmy Carter: 1, Bush-Israeli Klan: 0
-Jimmy for V-P! - Reply to this comment
- Let me ask a very simple question to all americans.
Waht do you think is exchange when meeting with Hamas groups or any high officials of a country?
Do you think is something like: You must follow international rules or else you will be shamed publicly??? NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
When nations meet with these groups they exchange the famous statement: What can you give me if I accept?
So, if it''s not weapons, it''s money or something in the form moeny.
Do you think we should exchange anything with such an outspoken group that denounces death to America and proves it by engaging in kidnappings, more deaths, training youngsters to bomb themselves in our embassies, our soldiers, our people???
Carter will NOT accomplish anything. But he does like the exposure. We are were we are among these terrorist groups because he denied entrance to the Shah into the US and Iran retaliated by kidnapping our diplomats from the embassy... people, there''s a long history of hate behind it. Do not fall in the news trap - Reply to this comment
- That''''s like saying Albert Einstein drew criticism from Britney Spears... HAHAHAHA!!!
Posted by FloydZepp
Come on Floyd, I think comparing Condi to Britney a little below the belt - Condi''s not demostrably insane at least. On the usefulness to society side - maybe Paris Hilton though. - Reply to this comment
- JERUSALEM - Israel%u2019s secret service has declined to assist U.S. agents guarding former U.S. President Jimmy Carter during a visit in which Israeli leaders have shunned him, U.S. sources told Reuters on Monday. .......
If i had it my way, id not send any of my tax money to those bedwetting zionists too afraid of peace ,and too eager for war!!!!! - Reply to this comment
- And what has she accomplished in that subject...
Posted by IOWEIGN at 09:32 AM : Apr 13, 2008
So you''re saying that just b/c Jimmah kissed arse for 20+ years and played hard for the award that he is beyond criticism? I don''t think so. His piece of Nobel paper isn''t worth a ***. - Reply to this comment
- That''''s like saying Albert Einstein drew criticism from Britney Spears... HAHAHAHA!!!
Posted by FloydZepp at 09:27 AM : Apr 14, 2008
You nose picking, bedwetting libs are too much. To compare Jimmah to Einstein and Condi to Britney is beyond stupid. I swear, a bag of door k n o b s is smarter than you. - Reply to this comment
- Condaleyza.....
Shut Up...
if you had done a better job, you wouldnt need a nobel peace price recipient to do it for you,
from the private sector at that!!!!!! - Reply to this comment
- "Hamas is a terrorist organization," Rice said, repeating the Bush administration''s explanation for why it will not meet with members of the group.
Funny thing Condi: I think Bush and his "preventive, trumped up, false intelligence war" would qualify as a terrorist event by a terrorist organization. You and your PNAC buddies have completly destroyed Iraq, and for what? Billions in damage, trillions in bad US debt, hundreds of thousands killed or maimed by your hands.
If you want to see a world class terrorist from a terrorist organization, look in the mirror. - Reply to this comment
- Condoleezza Rice criticizes Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
And what has she accomplished in that subject...
Posted by IOWEIGN at 09:32 AM : Apr 13, 2008
Asleep at the wheel as NSA for 9/11; absolutley nothing at State (save spewing Bushspeak). Pretty good at lying, and talking in long sentences but saying nothing. Very weak on answering questions. We need to ship her worthless buttt back to Stanford or Chevron... - Reply to this comment
- Obama is friends with Jimmy Carter, Correct?
Jimmy Carter is going overseas to speak with HAMAS.
REV WRIGHT supports Hamas and put them in a bulletin.
Could Obama really be giving the jews lip service and secretly supporting Hamas.
Research it , youll be surprised what you find.
google key word : Wright and ISM and Hamas - Reply to this comment
- OBAMA CHURCH, WRIGHT AND JIMMY CARTER PRO HAMAS
Ali Abunimah, in which Abumimah recounts his close past working relationship with Obama prior to the presidential campaign and how Abunimah believes Obama is merely giving lip service to the Jewish community to get elected, and that once in office he will work for the Palestinian cause. Abunimah lists himself and is mentioned in subsequent Obama articles in the mainstream press merely as a %u201CPalestinian activist.%u201D Abunimah insists that Obama will %u201Ccome around%u201D once elected.
But Ali Abunimah is more than just some %u201CPalestinian activist%u201D based in Chicago, the same location as Reverend Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ. He is, in fact, one of the founders of the fiercely anti-Semitic ISM Arab group Al Awda, the Palestine Right of Return Coalition. Abunimah is a high level international leader of the ISM for the Arabs who travels extensively between Chicago, Europe and Ramallah. - Reply to this comment
- Cloe Noel was an American Diplomat who was captured by ARAFAT''s thugs, and tortured and killed on order of this so called Peace Prize winner. This "Prize" means NOTHING.
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- Condoleezza Rice criticizes Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
And what has she accomplished in that subject... - Reply to this comment
- Jimmy Carter, a pure evil scumbag. He is the best friend to dictators, murderers, despots, and all of America''s enemies around the world. He''s been pulling these evil and traitorous stunts for 30 years, and I expect he''ll do it until he dies. He is easily, without question, not only the worst President in US history, but the worst elected world leader in world history. Carter is abominable.
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