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Jimmy Carter, king of the mouth-breathers on the left, is at it again. This time it's in an interview with Der Spiegel.  I apologize for quoting so much of the article, but when you have someone with the proclivity for stupidity that Carter has, it's hard to keep it short.

SPIEGEL: Mr. Carter, in your new book you write that only the American people can ensure that the US government returns to the country's old moral principles. Are you suggesting that the current US administration of George W. Bush of acting immorally?

Carter: There's no doubt that this administration has made a radical and unpressured departure from the basic policies of all previous administrations including those of both Republican and Democratic presidents.

SPIEGEL: For example?

Carter: Under all of its predecessors there was a commitment to peace instead of preemptive war. Our country always had a policy of not going to war unless our own security was directly threatened and now we have a new policy of going to war on a preemptive basis. Another very serious departure from past policies is the separation of church and state, which I describe in the book. This has been a policy since the time of Thomas Jefferson and my own religious beliefs are compatible with this. The other principle that I described in the book is basic justice. We've never had an administration before that so overtly and clearly and consistently passed tax reform bills that were uniquely targeted to benefit the richest people in our country at the expense or the detriment of the working families of America.

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Carter claims that the policy of the U.S. was to only go to war when our when "our own security was directly threatened."  Carter must have forgotten the first Iraq war, Rwanda, Vietnam, etc, etc, etc.  He also begins criticizing Bush for departing from policies of the mythical seperation of church and state.  I have no idea to what he is refering directly, but his inclination to throw red meat to the rabid left that thinks that the United States is heading toward a theocracy should not be lost on anyone.  Additionally, for a former President of the United States to be travelling abroad criticizing the sitting President seems, in my mind, to be just a tad inappropriate.

SPIEGEL: You also mentioned the hatred for the United States throughout the Arab world which has ensued as a result of the invasion of Iraq. Given this circumstance, does it come as any surprise that Washington's call for democracy in the Middle East has been discredited?

Carter: No, as a matter of fact, the concerns I exposed have gotten even worse now with the United States supporting and encouraging Israel in its unjustified attack on Lebanon.

SPIEGEL: But wasn't Israel the first to get attacked?

Carter: I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What happened is that Israel is holding almost 10,000 prisoners, so when the militants in Lebanon or in Gaza take one or two soldiers, Israel looks upon this as a justification for an attack on the civilian population of Lebanon and Gaza. I do not think that's justified, no.

These are the least defensible comments of all.  Israel was directly attacked, and Carter picks up on the "disproportionate response" meme being regurgitated by any liberal talking head that can make his way to a microphone.  This shows such a fundamental bias toward the terrorists that want to kill us that it's simply unconscionable.  Once again, Jimmy Carter has shown that he is a) not very intelligent and b) more inclined to defend those elements in this world that one to kill us than he is to defend this nation or it's allies.

Also posted at my blog.