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mrgerbik Donating Member (652 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 08:48 PM
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Former President Jimmy Carter Supports Call For New 9/11 Investigation


Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has become the latest, and perhaps most prominent, public figure to express support for a new investigation into the 9/11 attacks.

We Are Change Ohio attended a book signing by the former President in Chicago. Despite the best efforts of secret service personnel to abduct the person recording the conversation, the audio of Carter’s words were still captured.

Carter was asked, “I was just wondering if you’d support the victims’ family members that want a new investigation into 9/11.”

Carter clarifies the question before responding, “Yeah, I don’t have anything to do with it but I certainly would….it would be nice.


http://www.infowars.com/former-president-jimmy-carter-supports-call-for-new-911-investigation/
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rhymeandreason Donating Member (255 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-02-09 08:19 PM
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4.  "...a lack of inquisitive journalism..."
Carter has long been critical of the Bush Administration's exploitation of 9/11 as well as of the cowardly and acquiescent media. In this interview from four years ago he remarks on the shameless manipulations of Mr. Bush and his enablers.

Bush exploits suffering of 9/11, says Carter

* Oliver Burkeman in Atlanta
* guardian.co.uk, Monday 25 October 2004 22.06 BST
* Article history

George Bush has exploited the suffering of September 11 and turned back decades of efforts to make the world a safer place, the former president Jimmy Carter says in an interview with the Guardian published today.

Attacking Mr Bush and Tony Blair over Iraq, Mr Carter calls the war "a completely unjust adventure based on misleading statements".

He also criticises Mr Bush for "lack of effort" on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and accuses him of abandoning nuclear non-proliferation initiatives championed by five presidents.

The US "suffered, in 9/11, a terrible and shocking attack ... and George Bush has been adroit at exploiting that attack, and he has elevated himself, in the consciousness of many Americans, to a heroic commander-in-chief, fighting a global threat against America," Mr Carter says.

<snip>

"When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief," he says. "And it's just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush's fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions."

Mr Bush and Mr Blair are blamed for helping to fuel the depth of anti-American feeling in the Islamic world. Denying any link between his handling of the Iranian crisis and the present threat, Mr Carter says: "The entire Islamic world condemned Iran. Nowadays, because of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq by Bush and Blair, which was a completely unjust adventure based on misleading statements, and the lack of any effort to resolve the Palestinian issue, massive Islamic condemnation of the United States."

American media organisations, he adds, "have been cowed, because they didn't want to be unpatriotic. There has been a lack of inquisitive journalism. In fact, it's hard to think of a major medium in the United States that has been objective and fair and balanced, and critical when criticism was deserved".


In order for the United States to regain its moral authority, 9/11 really must be re-investigated.

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