Carter meets with political leader of Hamas in Syria

[CrimsonWhite]

Looks like Jimmy Carter forgot that he is no longer in office again. A former President meeting with the leadership of a terrorist organization is nothing short of contemptible.

(CNN) -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter met Sunday in Damascus, Syria, with Khaled Meshaal, the exiled leader of Hamas' political wing, a Hamas official said.

The five-hour meeting ended late Sunday and covered several issues, including Cpl. Gilad Shalit -- an Israeli soldier held captive by Hamas since June 2006, the official said.

Carter previously met with Meshaal in April.

In that meeting, the Hamas leader promised Carter that the group would allow Shalit to send a message to his parents, Noam and Aviva.

Carter also asked Hamas to release Shalit, Meshaal said after the former president's visit, but the request was rejected. Watch report on Carter's meeting »

Hamas said Sunday it will soon release a statement about the latest meeting between Carter and Meshaal.

Carter's series of meetings with top Hamas officials in April garnered condemnation from the U.S. and Israeli governments.

Carter meets with political leader of Hamas in Syria - CNN.com

 

[jillian]

Looks like Jimmy Carter forgot that he is no longer in office again. A former President meeting with the leadership of a terrorist organization is nothing short of contemptible.

My problem is that he's already expressed a huge amount of anti-semitism... so he doesn't go being an honest broker.

 

[Sunni Man]

Hamas is a legally recognized political organization in Gaza.

Carter should be praised for reaching out to these people.

 

[PubliusInfinitum]

Nothing new here... Let's not forget that Jimmuh Cawtuh started International Islamic Terrorism by encouraging these idiots. I expect he'll be encouraging them until he expires... of course evil is a tough bitch so we can expect his fairy ass to be around a while yet.

 

[Chris]

Nothing new here... Let's not forget that Jimmuh Cawtuh started International Islamic Terrorism by encouraging these idiots. I expect he'll be encouraging them until he expires... of course evil is a tough bitch so we can expect his fairy ass to be around a while yet.

No, actually Ronald Reagan started AQ by sending money and arms to Bin Laden and the mujahadeen in Afganistan.

But keep living your us vs them fantasy.

 

[Gunny]

Looks like Jimmy Carter forgot that he is no longer in office again. A former President meeting with the leadership of a terrorist organization is nothing short of contemptible.

Someone needs to take that idiot's passport away.

 

[Gunny]

Hamas is a legally recognized political organization in Gaza.

Carter should be praised for reaching out to these people.

Hamas is a terrorist organization the people of Palestine voted for as their government. Makes the entire state of Palestine a terrorist state, IMO.

 

[Gunny]

No, actually Ronald Reagan started AQ by sending money and arms to Bin Laden and the mujahadeen in Afganistan.

But keep living your us vs them fantasy.

No, actually Jimmy Carter started that. But keep living in your "Dem is good / Republican is bad" fantasy.

 

[frazzledgear]

Hamas is a legally recognized political organization in Gaza.

Carter should be praised for reaching out to these people.

Sorry, but Carter is an embarrassment to this country and has been since the day he was elected -and he has only stepped up that embarrassment since the American people threw him out of office. He is a private citizen and speaks for no one but himself. Former Presidents have NO authority to insert themselves into foreign affairs as if they actually have any authority or their word means a damn thing. This has no more meaning than if Heather the Beautician had a meeting with the leaders of Hamas, sorry.

Former Presidents have NO business sticking their noses into international affairs unless SPECIFICALLY requested to do so by the current President. Which has never happened in the case of Carter. He has been a thorn in the side of every single President since he got kicked out of office - always pretending the American people would actually prefer HE be the one making foreign policy. Couldn't be further from the truth. The American people threw him out BECAUSE his foreign and domestic policies were utter disaster for this country.

It doesn't matter whether we have a Democrat or Republican President since then. He still keeps pretending he is the one actually elected to set foreign policy and sticking his nose into affairs in spite of every single President since he got kicked out of office -REPEATEDLY asking him to BUTT OUT.

There is only ONE person elected to speak for the nation. It isn't Carter. What he can't deal with? It never will be again. By the overwhelming decision of the American people. Anyone who actually had to live through Carter's miserable four years -hasn't regretted that decision since. As far as I'm concerned -the wrong former President got hit with Alzheimer's.

 

[Agnapostate]

I know, those terrorists who construct illegal settlements in the Occupied Territories, annexed the Golan Heights, unjustly invaded Lebanon numerous times, used cluster munitions against the civilian population in Lebanon...oh. Wait. That was someone else around there.

 

[frazzledgear]

No, actually Ronald Reagan started AQ by sending money and arms to Bin Laden and the mujahadeen in Afganistan.

But keep living your us vs them fantasy.

And you might want to get your history lessons through unbiased sources instead of the whacko leftwing fruitcakes intent on re-writing history. You probably think the US actually gave Saddam Hussein a bunch of WMD too, right? Because you read it somewhere on some leftwing extremist website? ROFL In spite of the fact that the US was the leading nation pushing the UN to denounce Saddam for actually using WMD against Iran? And in spite of the fact the US once again cut off even the very limited diplomatic ties it had for all of three months with Iraq and returned to its decade-long unilateral embargo against Iraq - BECAUSE it used WMD?

OMG -the people who just can't wait and are so willing to believe the absolute worst about their own country. And it doesn't matter WHAT the issue is -they always side with the filth instead. Oh sure, one of THE most transparent governments on the planet and in history -- is actually guilty of THE most devious, murderous, filthiest acts in the last 50 years over all other nations. Yeah the entire world would be holding hands and singing Kumbaya if it weren't for the US, right? No doubt you also think the most secretive, the downright evil and murderous regimes on the planet are actually innocent, helpless regimes being "unfairly" picked on by the big, mean US, right? Sure YOU would gladly forfeit every right in the Bill of Rights and choose to live under a brutal, murderous dictatorship as long as they provided "free" health insurance, right? ROFLMAO Maybe those who are SO willing to condemn millions to live under the most oppressive, murderous and inhumane systems on the planet as if their freedom couldn't possibly be valuable to them at all -should have to live there first themselves.

Sorry, but the US never gave Bin Laden money or weapons -they dealt directly with actual Afghanistan nationals organized to fight the USSR occupation of their OWN country. For very real and legitimate reasons. You might want to research what those reasons are. And Bin Laden is a Saudi national -and a leader of nothing at that time. He was with a foreign group that received no US funding, weren't effective in the conflict at all and eventually left. The fact Bin Laden chose to BE in Afghanistan for part of that time -doesn't change history and facts. The US never dealt with him or any other foreign group that chose to insert themselves into that conflict - at all.

 

[auditor0007]

Someone needs to take that idiot's passport away.

Maybe they could just make him stay there. Don't let him back in.

 

[DiveCon]

No, actually Jimmy Carter started that. But keep living in your "Dem is good / Republican is bad" fantasy.

actually, no US money went to bin laden or the taliban
but the lib morons will never let that lie go

 

[Gunny]

I know, those terrorists who construct illegal settlements in the Occupied Territories, annexed the Golan Heights, unjustly invaded Lebanon numerous times, used cluster munitions against the civilian population in Lebanon...oh. Wait. That was someone else around there.

Right. You're talking about the ones that walk into wedding parties or get on school busses and detonate themselves, and/or fire missiles into civilian housing areas and have waged war against NOTHING but unarmed civilian noncombatants.

Probably because every time they try face to face like men, with men, they get their asses handed to them and get sent running for Beirut. Being murderers and thugs works out so much better for them; especially, with people like Carter and you more than willing to excuse their actions.

 

[Gunny]

actually, no US money went to bin laden or the taliban
but the lib morons will never let that lie go

Disagree. One of the few times in the late 70s I actually was paying attention to what was going on. The Carter Administration was, via the CIA and ironically enough, smuggling weapons through Pakistan to the Muhajadeen, of which bin Laden was a key player and financier.

I still have the vague recollection of one of the 60 minutes reporters standing at the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan giving the report.

 

[strollingbones]

see what i was talking about jillian..each side..clings to their hate...each side shouting the injustices committed by the other side...never looking at what they are doing themselves....how can anyone shout down a man seeking peace? when did peace become a bad thing?

 

[strollingbones]

btw dont mistake all these so called support as support...christians only want to protect the jews to fulfill the "rapture"

 

[bk1983]

Disagree. One of the few times in the late 70s I actually was paying attention to what was going on. The Carter Administration was, via the CIA and ironically enough, smuggling weapons through Pakistan to the Muhajadeen, of which bin Laden was a key player and financier.

I still have the vague recollection of one of the 60 minutes reporters standing at the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan giving the report.

Honestly we dont know how much money was given to any of these groups, because no proper accounting was done. Inspector Kay of the Bush admin was given millions in reward money and green cards with passports to any paradise you can dream of for any Iraqi who came forward with intelligence on WMD's.. Unfortunately a treasure chest of funds were given to Iraqi people who may have been members of any insurgency, they gave in return fabricated intelligence.

"You cannot believe how hard it is to motivate people in the field who know that all they are doing is going through busy work motions because they themselves know there are no weapons there.

"I faced that over a year ago with a team that essentially knew that we were right when we said they were no weapons."

-Former US Inspector(David Kay) for the Iraq survey group in charge of the wmd search.

 

[strollingbones]

Looks like Jimmy Carter forgot that he is no longer in office again. A former President meeting with the leadership of a terrorist organization is nothing short of contemptible.

since when does the actions of a single american citizen merit this much attention....is carter not feel to meet with hamas.....its not like he is trying to travel to cuba now is it?

or do you cw propose more travel restrictions on free americans?

 

[BlackAsCoal]

Looks like Jimmy Carter forgot that he is no longer in office again. A former President meeting with the leadership of a terrorist organization is nothing short of contemptible.

I applaud Carter, who has demonstrated more courage than any American president in recent times.

The notion that America should stand hostage to Israeli policy is insane .. and it contributes to the religion of anti-americanism.

Israel is the most hated nation on the planet for very good reasons.

We are an uninformed people and we contribute heavily to our own demise.

BRAVO President Carter.