For those of you that are inclined to write to Congressman Joseph Knollenberg who is the only politician I have seen speak out against President Carter laying a wreath at the burial place of Yasser Arafat and meeting with Hamas. It will never cease to amaze me how short the minds of the people truly are. I'm only 48 and I remember what a terrorist Yasser Arafat was. Remember the Olympic Games in Munich, Germany in 1972,
Remember the hijacking of the Acille Loro on October 7, 1985 and the terrorist shot 69 year old Leon Klinhoffer and throwing him into the sea along with his wheelchair. He was a man, on a cruise, celebrating his anniversary with his beloved wife.
There were also airplane hijackings! Just do some research and you too will learn how venomous Hamas truly is.
All the acts supported by terrorist groups supported by Yasser Arafat!
I can't believe more of the media are not coming down hard on Jimmy Carter. Congressman Joseph Knollenberg is trying to pass some sort of bill to STOP federal funding of the Carter Library.
I know we are all busy, but I'm going to give you a link to http://www.knollenberg.house.gov/Contact/ and let him know what you think. Just click on Congressman Knollenberg in the body of this blog and it will take you directly to: EMAIL JOE.
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Showing posts with label Yasser Arafat. Show all posts
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Jimmy Carter is a disgrace.
By Ross Balano, Midwest Voices Columnist 2008
Jimmy Carter is in the Middle East making nice with Hamas despite requests from the State Department and his own Democratic Party not to. He reminds me once again why he is considered by many as the worst president of the 20th century.
Let’s take a little trip down memory lane with Jimmy who was president from 1977 to 1981. Some memories from those years include:
1) Lines at the gas pump.
2) Interest rates approaching 17%.
3) Boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games.
4) General depression of the American People that was so bad Carter himself acknowledged it in his “malaise speech.”
5) Unemployment reaching 7.8% in August of 1980.
6) The Iranians took 52 American Diplomats hostage and held them for 444 days.
7) Under Carter, the American military had become so impotent that a rescue mission failed when helicopters crashed in the desert.
Citing human rights abuses, Carter withdrew American support for the Shah of Iran and in fact demanded that he step down.
Carter ordered the Pentagon to advise the Shah’s military not to oppose Ayatollah Khomeini who was returning from exile. Khomeini’s Islamic revolution was the result, and most of the top military people were executed as one of the first acts of the new government.
Carter’s refusal to send our military into Iran when they took the embassy and our people hostage was his worst mistake in my opinion. Had Carter acted then he would have stopped Khomeini and his radicals in their tracks. By not doing so Carter allowed militant Islam and terrorism to become the threat it is today.
Once again, now, Carter again seems to be siding with terrorists. By placing a wreath at the grave of Yasser Arafat, Carter is paying homage to one of history’s worst terrorists.
I think we should buy Jimmy Carter a new pair of overalls and a new hammer and send him permanently back to Habitat for Humanity. Let him try to build houses instead of tear down America.
Jimmy Carter is in the Middle East making nice with Hamas despite requests from the State Department and his own Democratic Party not to. He reminds me once again why he is considered by many as the worst president of the 20th century.
Let’s take a little trip down memory lane with Jimmy who was president from 1977 to 1981. Some memories from those years include:
1) Lines at the gas pump.
2) Interest rates approaching 17%.
3) Boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games.
4) General depression of the American People that was so bad Carter himself acknowledged it in his “malaise speech.”
5) Unemployment reaching 7.8% in August of 1980.
6) The Iranians took 52 American Diplomats hostage and held them for 444 days.
7) Under Carter, the American military had become so impotent that a rescue mission failed when helicopters crashed in the desert.
Citing human rights abuses, Carter withdrew American support for the Shah of Iran and in fact demanded that he step down.
Carter ordered the Pentagon to advise the Shah’s military not to oppose Ayatollah Khomeini who was returning from exile. Khomeini’s Islamic revolution was the result, and most of the top military people were executed as one of the first acts of the new government.
Carter’s refusal to send our military into Iran when they took the embassy and our people hostage was his worst mistake in my opinion. Had Carter acted then he would have stopped Khomeini and his radicals in their tracks. By not doing so Carter allowed militant Islam and terrorism to become the threat it is today.
Once again, now, Carter again seems to be siding with terrorists. By placing a wreath at the grave of Yasser Arafat, Carter is paying homage to one of history’s worst terrorists.
I think we should buy Jimmy Carter a new pair of overalls and a new hammer and send him permanently back to Habitat for Humanity. Let him try to build houses instead of tear down America.
Peace, Peace and there is no Peace!
Jimmy Carter Lays a Wreath at Arafat's Tomb
By Julie Stahl
CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief
April 15, 2008
Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter laid a wreath of red roses at the grave of Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat during a visit to the West Bank City of Ramallah on Tuesday.
"He and Mrs. Carter and his son Jeff wanted to pay their respects to President Arafat," Carter's trip director Rick Jasculca told Cybercast News Service. But the former president didn't make any comments there, he said.
Dubbed the "godfather of terrorism," Arafat was linked to the deaths of two American diplomats in the Sudan in 1973 -- one of many terror acts laid at his feet. (See earlier story)
Twenty years later, Arafat became the first PLO leader to sign a peace agreement with an Israeli Prime Minister -- Yitzhak Rabin -- in 1993. He was considered Israel's peace partner (although many Israelis never believed it) until the beginning of the violent Palestinian uprising in September 2000. Arafat managed the terror war against Israel until his death in 2004.
U.S. officials have emphasized that Carter is visiting the Middle East as a private citizen and not as a representative of the U.S. government.
On Tuesday, the Israeli government refused Carter's request to visit Hamas-controlled Gaza. The former U.S. leader has angered the Israeli government over plans to meet Hamas's top leader, Khaled Mashaal, in Syria on Friday.
Most visiting American dignitaries -- including President Bush -- have avoided Arafat's tomb. Michaela Schweitzer-Bluhm, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem that handles Palestinian affairs, told Cybercast News Service that no active U.S. Executive Branch member had ever laid a wreath on Arafat's grave.
Carter first met Arafat in 1990, when Arafat was leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization. According to a New York Times report, Carter praised Arafat as a peacemaker.
Years later, Carter led an international team in observing the first Palestinian Authority elections that gave Arafat the presidency. (Carter also observed the 2006 elections that brought Hamas an overwhelming parliamentary majority.)
Arafat was the most frequent visitor to President Bill Clinton's White House. President Bush also dealt with Arafat at the beginning of his presidency, but after the Palestinian leader lied to Bush in early 2002 about a huge shipment of Iranian weapons bound for the P.A., he was shunned until his death in November 2004.
On Tuesday, Carter also had lunch with a dozen or so Palestinian civil society leaders and had what was described as a "wonderful round table" discussion with Palestinian youths that he and his wife enjoyed immensely, said Jasculca.
As President Carter travels around the Middle East he is "eager to hear viewpoints" about peace and the peace process. "Instead of talking, he's doing a lot of listening," said Jasculca.
(Peacemaker, Jimmy Carter and the "godfather" of terrorism, Yasser Arafat, just think about it, my mama would have called that, "selling your soul to the devil!" VoteNovember2008)
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