Wasn't President Carter ridiculed for his stance on human rights?

[terrya]

By the very same people who are justifying our going into Iraq to topple Saddam? For human rights reasons? After we propped up Saddam?

Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz...they don't seem like champions of human rights to me.

My head hurts from trying to figure this out...

[freetobegay]

1. Go to a Sunday T-dance

Trying to figure out those that you mentioned will only put you in an early grave.

[baldguy]

2. What did Bush & Co do when Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize?

Nothing. Nada. Nil. Zip. Zero. Zilch.

[Mountainman]

3. Carter would not let the US participate in the Olympics because

Russia invaded Afghanistan. Now we fight in Afghanistan. Go figure.

[madrchsod]

6. he also embargoed grain shipments

to russia which pissed off the farmers and the russians..

[stavka]

10. He also started US Support in Afghanistan

He was using Pakistan, and they were using us at the time. It wasn't until Reagan/CIA Director Casey that the Saudi CID got into it with Osama, but it did start with Carter.

..and I think it was a good idea. Spend a couple of million on WWII Lee-Enfield .303's to cost the Soviets a billion and not build more Nukes....sounds like winning the cold war to me...but WAIT how do US corporations make a buck?

We need Reagan for sure....

[gratuitous]

4. Yup

There was a time, kids, believe it or not, when the U.S. was regarded as the last defender and guarantor of human rights on the planet. People all over the world knew to hide away their torture and their genocide. Now, it's all out in the open, and we're right at the forefront:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5226957/

Our Secretary of Defense, Mr. Superb Job, may soon be finding out about the more "quaint" provisions of the Geneva Conventions.

What has the corrupt Bush administration done to our beloved country, not only that we engage in such illegalities, but that our citizens see it right before their eyes, and refuse to object to it?

[AndyTiedye]

8. We Have Been Objecting Plenty!

not that it gets on the news...

[Ann Arbor Dem]

5. Carter saved lives around the world because of his stance....

I know people in South America who wouldn't be alive today if it weren't for Carter.

[Octafish]

9. Carter said: "Human Rights will be our Administration's top priority..."

... in foreign policy matters."

"Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood." -- President James E. Carter.

First thing Reagan did was to replace "Human Rights" with anti-terrorism. Lot of good it's done U.S. or the world.

BTW: A hearty welcome to DU, Ann Arbor Dem! Where ya been? The Ark?

[madrchsod]

7. carter teachs sunday school

think the right hand of god georgie will when he`s retired?????