WHY DOES JIMMY CARTER HATE AMERICA?

 

AND SOME OTHER THOUGHTS ABOUT GUANTANAMO The Guantanamo of Long Ago Used to Be Known as the Place of the Pretty Song GUANTANAMERA, but now the JIMMY CARTER comments that GUANTANAMO IS A DISGRACE to the will be considered  reason enough for RIGHT WING apologists of moral abomination to ask: why does Jimmy Carter hate America?  Better to ask why some American leaders hate America when they do not see that the ROTTEN FRUIT hanging from this POISONED TREE feeds terrorist hunger for revenge.

Called GITMO, Guantanamo is a land of American moral question marks. Guantanamo itself is the rotten HARVEST of another DUBIOUS WAR, a Cuban war which may have a SEQUEL. America does not do CARIBBEAN ADVENTURE well.

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[AP] CARTER ON GUANTANAMO "I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A.," he told a news conference at the Baptist World Alliance's centenary conference in Birmingham, England. "I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts."

[AVEDON CAROL] Jimmy Carter can't do or say anything without the wingnuts rising up to sneer at him. Put that together with such a moment of real moral clarity as noting that the Guantanamo detentions are DISGRACEFUL and you're ready for an outbreak of so much FRUITCAKE you'd think it was Christmas.  "Jimmy Insults American Military On Foreign Soil," says CAPTAIN ED, typically unable to distinguish the troops from the policy-makers.  BETSEY NEWMARK says, "Jimmy Carter is a disgrace." She apparently thinks it's a myth that things are bad at Guantanamo. News for Betsy: Yes, it really is a violation of the Constitution to hold people indefinitely without charging them, and that is outrage enough. And guess what - it doesn't fight terrorism, either. POLPUNDIT says: "Modern-Day Leftism is *Not* a Political Ideology - It's a mental disorder." As if we needed more evidence of right-wing projection.

[BLOGENLUST] The New York Times reports this morning that the Administration went ahead with their "non-existant torture policy" in spite of "VIGOROUS DISSENTS" from the military. . . .  When are we going to understand that the "few bad apples" are the ones leading our country?

[DED] Then there is "Gitmo." What a perfectly ridiculous name, when it takes so little time to say "Guantanamo." And how adorable--to give a nickname to a torture chamber.

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[wanda]

"When are we going to understand that the "few bad apples" are the ones leading our country?"

I'm beginning to think it may not occurr to some people until we're well into the middle of WWIII.