Hail to the ex-Chief...

Jimmy Carter should be widely congratulated by world leaders, democrats, Republicans and all Americans for revealing the truth about Hamas and the peace process.

I believe those press reports that claim "Carter-Hamas meeting achieved nothing" are absolutely wrong.

According to press reports by the AFP...

"Carter-Hamas meeting achieved nothing: Palestinians"

"Last week's meeting between former US president Jimmy Carter and the exiled leader of Hamas militants did not produce any results, Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki said here Wednesday."

"'President Carter came to the region thinking he could achieve something. Unfortunately president Carter left without anything concrete,' he told a conference in the Spanish capital."

"'The only thing he achieved was permission on the part of Khaled Meshaal of Hamas to deliver a letter from a detained Israeli soldier to his family. Nothing else,' he said."

"'Hamas offered nothing to president Carter. They reiterated the same positions. There was no change on the part of Hamas,' Malki added."

"Carter's meetings with top Hamas leader Meshaal and his deputy in Syria angered Israel and the United States, which consider the movement a terror group despite its victory in 2006 elections."

"He was unable to secure a ceasefire or a prisoner exchange for an Israeli soldier seized by Gaza militants in 2006, but on Monday Carter said Hamas told him it would recognize Israel's right to exist such a deal was approved by a Palestinian vote."

"Just hours later Meshaal told a press conference in Damascus that Hamas would not recognise the Jewish state and would insist on the right of return for 4.5 million Palestinian refugees."

Carter: the useful idiot...

Carter, a useful idiot at best and an ignorant anti-Semite at worst, did manage to demonstrate clearly and convincingly to the entire world that HAMAS was not willing to engage with the Israelis or call a halt to the shelling of innocent Israeli citizens to provide a sign that they were willing to talk about peace.

Hamas: unchanged and impenitent...

Their position remained unchanged and they remained impenitent. They are terrorists and will continue their campaign of terror.

Deflects criticism by attacking Condoleezza Rice...

"Former US President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday accused Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of being untruthful over remarks made about his controversial meeting with the Islamist Hamas group."

"Rice had chided Carter for meeting with Hamas, saying US State Department officials had told him such talks would not help the Middle East peace process. "

"But a statement from the Atlanta-based Carter Center, which speaks on the ex-president's behalf, said no one from the US government told him not to meet with exiled Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal or other leaders of the group."

"'President Carter has the greatest respect for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and believes her to be a truthful person,' the statement said.

"'However, perhaps inadvertently, she is continuing to make a statement that is not true,' it said."

"According to the statement, 'No one in the State Department or any other department of the US government ever asked him to refrain from his recent visit to the Middle East or even suggested that he not meet with Syrian President Assad or leaders of Hamas.'"

"Rice had said Tuesday that the United States would not deal with Hamas and 'we certainly told president Carter that we didn't think meeting with Hamas was going to help the Palestinians who (are) actually devoted to peace.'"

"Commenting on Carter's statement, Rice's spokesman Sean McCormack defended his boss, saying, 'We stand by the statements.  We stand by them as statements of fact.'"

Final analysis...

There is no doubt in my mind that Jimmy Carter enhanced the perceived prestige of Hamas and its leader, Khaled Meshaal among the terrorists and Islamo-fascists, by traveling to Meshaal in Syria to ask for favors. Even the letter provided to Carter was being laughed at by the terrorists who only respect strength and the resolve to use it to win your position.

What can YOU do?

Keep in mind that terrorists and especially the Islamo-fascists ONLY respect strength and those who have the resolve to use it. They hide behind women and children when the commit acts of aggression as any counter-strike to suppress fire is liable to kill innocent non-combatants which will then be portrayed to the world as the wanton killing of innocents.

Recognize that it was on Carter's watch that we saw the beginning of Iran's theocracy (when Carter abandoned the Shah of Iran and urged the Ayatollah Khomeini to return to Iran to run for office. It was on Carter's watch that the North Koreans lied about the nuclear ambitions and thus became a nuclear power. (Note: the Syrian's were trying to build their nuclear capability by purchasing North Korean technology and were bombed by Israel to halt their nuclear ambitions.) And it was on Carter's watch that the American embassy was placed under siege and American hostages taken. Carter's inability to take definitive action to secure the return of the hostages cost Carter a potential second presidential term.

Carter, as well as most of our elected democrats, is a proponent of the far-left who believe that they can simply talk to a dictator and convince them of their errant ways. In many ways, the far left movement has been infiltrated by those who believe that they can capture and subdue America without a shot being fired -- by using our own freedoms and laws against us. And they are trying their level best to insure that we have weak leaders who will refuse to defend the United States from its enemies, both foreign and domestic.

Do not vote for any candidate or current politician who is willing to subvert the safety, security, sovereignty and economic strength of the United States or limit an individual's right of self-defense for their personal philosophy, power, prestige or profits.

-- steve

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Reference Links:

Carter-Hamas meeting achieved nothing: Palestinians 

Carter accuses Rice of being untruthful over Hamas meeting