Jimmy Carter Created Islamic Iran, Why Isn't He Speaking out Against its Abuses ?

Friday, August 7, 2009

Jimmy Carter Created Islamic Iran, Why Isn't He Speaking out Against its Abuses ?

One of the few "achievements" of Jimmy Carter's presidency is the fact that we now have a bunch of Islamic crazies running Iran who want to violently put down their people's desire for freedom and to control the entire Middle East. The continuing violent oppression of those who oppose the Iranian government will be part of the Jimmy Carter legacy.

Two years ago there was an interesting analysis` in the JPost which said in part:Carter viewed Khomeini as more of a religious holy man in a grassroots revolution than a founding father of modern terrorism. Carter's ambassador to the UN, Andrew Young, said "Khomeini will eventually be hailed as a saint." Carter's Iranian ambassador, William Sullivan, said, "Khomeini is a Gandhi-like figure." Carter adviser James Bill proclaimed in a Newsweek interview on February 12, 1979 that Khomeini was not a mad mujahid, but a man of "impeccable integrity and honesty."The Shah, on the other hand had the Peanut President down pat. He told his personal confidant, "Who knows what sort of calamity he [Carter] may unleash on the world?"

It was Carter's Kumaya-pacifism that got him into trouble:Carter never got it that Khomeini, a cleric exiled to Najaf in Iraq from 1965-1978, was preparing Iran for revolution. Proclaiming "the West killed God and wants us to bury him," Khomeini's weapon of choice was not the sword but the media. Using tape cassettes smuggled by Iranian pilgrims returning from the holy city of Najaf, he fueled disdain for what he called gharbzadegi ("the plague of Western culture").Carter pressured the shah to make what he termed human rights concessions by releasing political prisoners and relaxing press censorship. Khomeini could never have succeeded without Carter. The Islamic Revolution would have been stillborn. Gen. Robert Huyser, Carter's military liaison to Iran, once told me in tears: "The president could have publicly condemned Khomeini and even kidnapped him and then bartered for an exchange with the [American Embassy] hostages, but the president was indignant. 'One cannot do that to a holy man,' he said."


Well thank you Jimmy, you created this horrible regime, and now that its leaders have stolen the vote, and started beating, shooting and torturing those fighting for their votes to count, you are strangely silent. Why don't you open up your mouth and try to clean up your own mess?