Former USF student pleads guilty to terrorism charge

Remember the case of the two South Florida students detained near a military base in South Carolina after pipe bombs were found in their car?

One of the two entered a plea deal today, though it's unlikely you heard it through our beloved mainstream media.

Last September the U.S. Attorney's Office released details regarding the contents of their car: pipes filled with fertilizer, Karo syrup, kitty litter, bullets and fuses, a laptop with a history of web searches on Jihadist martyrdom, Hamas and Qassam rockets and video instructions for turning a remote-control car into a detonator.

Today Youseff Mohamed entered a plea agreement admitting guilt.

In the court document, he admits to providing material to support terrorists. He also acknowledges that a YouTube video he produced was to be used in "preparation for or in carrying out the killing of employees of the United States," including uniformed personnel.

I wonder if the U.S. Attorney will receive an apology from CAIR.

I won't hold my breath.

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Photo o' the day: Sadr City

And maybe photo o' the year.


Ripped off from Gateway Pundit, who has the back-story.

How good are our troops? They've gone ahead and won a war that even some of our own politicians -- Democrats like Harry Reid -- said was "lost." I wonder when Reid and the rest of the Democrats will issue a formal apology to the U.S. military.

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The Audacity of Gullibility

David Jeffers, a religion columnist at New Media Journal, describes "The Deep Faith of Barack Obama." His analysis dissects a 2004 interview with Obama that is -- to be frank -- quite disturbing given what we now know about his relationships and judgment.

...First, Senator Obama says in the interview:

So that, one of the churches I met, or one of the churches that I became involved in was Trinity United Church of Christ. And the pastor there, Jeremiah Wright, became a good friend. So I joined that church and committed myself to Christ in that church.

By now most Americans know about the controversy swirling around Reverend Wright and the majority of people do not believe that Senator Obama could be a member of that church and not know about Reverend Wright's racist tendencies. But what if he is telling the truth, what if he didn't know?

Then there is something more troubling and it brings into question Senator Obama's judgment and his ability to evaluate people's motives and desires. How is it possible that a grown man educated in an Ivy League school could be taken completely by surprise over Jeremiah Wright's behavior? When asked if he had people in his life he looked to for guidance, Senator Obama responded:

Well, my pastor is certainly someone who I have an enormous amount of respect for... I have a number of friends who are ministers. Reverend Meeks is a close friend and colleague of mine in the state Senate. Father Michael Pfleger is a dear friend and somebody I interact with closely.

Add on to Senator Obama's list his dear friend convicted felon Tony Rezko and his associate, domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, and we have a pattern here. And if it is true that Barack Obama was completely fooled and surprised by the behavior of these four men, three of whom he says "...is not the man I knew", then that leads to a very important question.

How are we to trust this man to sit across the negotiating table with the likes of Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Syria's Bashar al-Assad, North Korea's Kim Jong-Il, or Venezuela's Hugo Chavez? Senator Obama has already stated that he would initiate "tough negotiations" with these four countries and yet he is unable to know the hearts and minds of three close friends and one political associate?

Those are damn good questions.

Hat tip: Larwyn

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Obama Campaign Blog: putting neocons and the "Israel lobby" in formaldehyde is a "perfect solution"

That crack, Internet-savvy web team at Obama Central is really on the ball. Since January 12th, 2008, an Obama campaign blog posted by a racist crackpot ("blu") has advocated a "perfect solution" for neocons and the "Israel lobby": putting them in formaldehyde.

What Israel, her Israel Lobby, and her neocons desire is to successfully manipulate America to permit and support Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine (which takes care of her internal enemies, the Palestinians) while manipulating America to illegally attack any nation Israel and her Israel Lobby sends us to attack (which takes care of her external enemies)...

...What workable plans do Israel and her Israel Lobby have for the Palestinians and peace in Palestine? The Likud/Netanyahu extremist Israelis running Israel have put the dead Palestinians in a jar of formaldehyde on the shelf - preserved dead forever...

...I say the neocons have suggested their own perfect solution - we put the neocons and the Israel Lobby in formaldehyde and we put it up on a shelf and teach generations of Americans what crimes, disasters, and holocaust they have wrought upon the world, America, and the Palestinians...

But wait! There's more!

...I love that Samantha is at the Kennedy School of Government along with Stephen Walt - Walt being the coauthor of the seminal work on 'The Israel Lobby' along with Mearsheimer. Samantha is a perfect choice for stopping our neocon-led phoney war on terror EVERYBODY KNOWS is really a 'war of terror for Israel' but just about everybody in academia or politics simply don't have the cojones to say. Edwards and Samantha are visionary enough to have the guts to overcome the 'Israel Lobby's' kibosh on discussing these truths. [EVERYBODY KNOWS? Jeez, I was out of the loop on that one.]

At the very core of our involvement in Iraq and Iran is our support for the slow genocide of Palestine that the Israelis have been carrying out for the last 60 years in blatant violation of UN Sec Co Resolutions 242, 194, 338, the Geneva Conventions, and International Law...

Historical revisionism and virulent hatred at a presidential candidate's blog: now that's change we can believe in!

Update: Obama's campaign has reportedly hired web specialists to "fight web smears." He might want to spend some of that money on cleaning up his own blog first.

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Obama administration to prosecute U.S. troops for war crimes

The embarrassment of the Haditha debacle notwithstanding, Barack Obama will not hesitate to pursue the prosecution of U.S. troops and the Bush administration for war crimes.

Charles Johnson discovered a campaign document that made the promise to "hold accountable any perpetrators of war crimes."

Thomas Lifson adds insights gleaned from an Obama interview with a Philadelphia newspaper.

Obama said that as president he would indeed ask his new Attorney General and his deputies to "immediately review the information that's already there" and determine if an inquiry is warranted -- but he also tread carefully on the issue, in line with his reputation for seeking to bridge the partisan divide...

...He worried that such a probe could be spun as "a partisan witch hunt." However, he said that equation changes if there was willful criminality, because "nobody is above the law."

That can only be interpreted as a threat to U.S. troops, because Obama has never criticized Al Qaeda's well-regarded torture practices.

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Official Obama blog explains how the Jewish Lobby Works

Yet another hateful blog has sprung up on Barack Obama's official site. The group Socialists for Obama offers a meandering tome that spews bile and vitriol while railing against the all-powerful "Jewish lobby."

The blog appears to have been around since April as one of the commenters voices his thanks for the venue:

First of all, my sincere appreciation to the moderator of this website, that he allows the fundamental issue to be presented and even discussed here.

To that extent, he is more honorable than ANY of the thousands of religious ‘authorities’ and hundreds of media officials (and who controls the media if not the secularists, the Jews and the Christians?) who I have contacted over the last 30 some years.

Officially sanctioned religious hatred?

Now that's change we can believe in!

Update: Lest one think this is some sort of anomaly, the Obama campaign blogs of Dewan Karim ("In collaboration with the Clintons, they [the Jewish Lobby] dispatched a number of "candidacy assassinators" including former Clinton special counsel, Lanny Davis, Florida congress woman, Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, California congress man, Brad Sherman, CNN news anchor, Wolf Blitzer [vis-a-vis Lou Dobbs], Independent Senator, Joseph Lieberman, the far right crippled Washington Post Journalist, Charles Krauthammer and others to torpedo Obama's nomination bid.") and Elaine Kelley ("Senator Obama is for real change or just business as usual. I'd like to know why Sen. Obama started to speak the truth about Palestine/Israel, then did a 90-degree right turn. I want to believe he stands for change we can believe in. But can anyone run for high office in this country without being raked over by AIPAC?") are sufficient evidence otherwise.

Update: Fausta has a good summary of this and other controversial posts hosted by the brilliant, uber-Internet-savvy Obama campaign (via Larwyn). Linked by: LGF, Gateway Pundit, Protein Wisdom, American Thinker, Atlas, Carl in Jerusalem, and Memeorandum. Thanks!

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If today's editors of the New York Times had their way

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Quote o' the day: the case of the disappearing dictator

The AP's Amy Teibel reports a statement by Shaul Mofaz, former Israeli chief of staff and defense minister.

"[Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] will disappear before Israel does... If Iran continues its nuclear arms program — we will attack it... The sanctions aren't effective. There will be no choice but to attack Iran to halt the Iranian nuclear program."

The sooner the better.

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Barack Obama's not the person I once knew

Gateway Pundit:

Barack Obama on close friend and mentor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, April 29, 2008:

The person I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago. His comments were not only divisive and destructive, but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate, and I believe that they do not portray accurately the perspective of the black church.

Barack Obama on close friend Fr. Pfleger, May 29, 2008:

As I have traveled this country, I've been impressed not by what divides us, but by all that that unites us. That is why I am deeply disappointed in Father Pfleger's divisive, backward-looking rhetoric, which doesn't reflect the country I see or the desire of people across America to come together in common cause.

Barack Obama on his church of 20 years, May 31, 2008:

I am not denouncing the church. I am not interested in people who want me to denounce the church because it's not a church worthy of denouncing. And so if they’ve seen caricatures of the church and accept those caricatures despite my insistence that's not what the church is about, then there's not much I can do about it.

Barack Obama on close friend Tony Rezko, June 4, 2008:

I’m saddened by today’s verdict. This isn’t the Tony Rezko I knew, but now he has been convicted by a jury on multiple charges that once again shine a spotlight on the need for reform. I encourage the General Assembly to take whatever steps are necessary to prevent these kinds of abuses in the future.

After his whimsical speech to AIPAC, Barack Obama was officially "un-endorsed" by Hamas.

"Obama’s comments have confirmed that there will be no change in the U.S. administration’s foreign policy on the Arab-Israeli conflict," Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri [said], "...Hamas does not differentiate between the two presidential candidates... because their policies regarding the Arab-Israel conflict are the same and are hostile to us, therefore we do have no preference and are not wishing for either of them to win."

It doesn't take much to imagine Obama's reaction.

I’m saddened by today’s un-endorsement. This isn’t the Sami Abu Zuhri I knew, but it demonstrates the clear need for peace in the Middle East. I encourage Israel to give Hamas what it wants.

In all seriousness: is Obama just a poor judge of people? Or just a liar? You make the call.

Update: At LGF, Stuck-in-CA offers an insightful answer: "Both. He has to lie because he has such bad judgment in people, and because he can't admit that he's one of them in ideology. But birds of...". Bubbalouey had some similar thoughts.

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Obama Action™ Trading Cards: fun for the whole family!

Baseball cards may have gone by the boards, but not Obama Friends™ Action Trading Cards!

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Obama at AIPAC: Was he lying then or now? I'm guessing: now

NPR: Illinois Sen. Barack Obama delivered a speech on Wednesday, June 4, before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The speech comes the day after he secured enough delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination... In these prepared remarks provided by his campaign, Obama tries to allay doubts that some Jewish voters have expressed about his candidacy...

For a skilled politician capable of evading concrete positions, Obama's speech was characterized by an unprecidented series of fabrications, gyroscopic spin, and outright lies.

Recall that Barack Obama spent two decades attending a church that supported Hamas, attacked Jews and repeatedly honored Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

Now compare and contrast:

Obama at AIPAC:

...I will ensure that Israel can defend itself from any threat — from Gaza to Tehran... First, we must approve the foreign aid request for 2009. Going forward, we can enhance our cooperation on missile defense. We should export military equipment to our ally Israel under the same guidelines as NATO...

Lie. Obama opposes all missile defense technology.

Obama at AIPAC:

There is no greater threat to Israel — or to the peace and stability of the region — than Iran... while I don't want to strike too partisan a note here today, I do want to address some willful mischaracterizations of my positions.

Lie. Barack Obama told a crowd of 75,000 last month that Iran is not a threat.

Obama at AIPAC:

The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous arms race and raise the prospect of a transfer of nuclear know-how to terrorists. Its president denies the Holocaust and threatens to wipe Israel off the map. The danger from Iran is grave, it is real, and my goal will be to eliminate this threat.

Lie. In September 2007, a bipartisan effort in the Senate passed the Kyl-Lieberman resolution designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. Obama vehemently opposed this effort and used the opportunity as a political tool to attack Hillary Clinton. Obama rewrites history by pretending his opposition to Kyl-Lieberman never happened, When given a chance to fight Iran's support of terror, Obama instead worked against the bipartisan effort to increase the economic pressure on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

Obama at AIPAC:

Contrary to the claims of some, I have no interest in sitting down with our adversaries just for the sake of talking.

Lie. Obama's own website reads as follows: "Obama is the only major candidate who supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions."

Obama at AIPAC:

I have been proud to be a part of a strong, bipartisan consensus that has stood by Israel in the face of all threats... I will always stand up for Israel's right to defend itself in the United Nations and around the world.

Lie: In January 2008, a Palestinian activist named Ali Abunimah described Barack Obama’s overnight switch from Pro-Palestinian activist to supporter of Israel.

Barack Obama is not distinguished from the rest of the [candidates], except by for how far he has moved to try to appease AIPAC and pro-Israel movements.

I remember, Amy—I knew Barack Obama for many years as my state senator—when he used to attend events in the Palestinian community in Chicago all the time.

I remember personally introducing him onstage in 1999, when we had a major community fundraiser for the community center in Deheisha refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. And that’s just one example of how Barack Obama used to be very comfortable speaking up for and being associated with Palestinian rights and opposing the Israeli occupation...

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Obama's list of lies is getting so long, folks will soon need a data warehouse to keep track of everything.

Update: That was quick: "Obama's brilliant career as Defender of Israel lasts about one day."

Gateway Pundit has the essential summary.

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Does the agreed-upon terminology include 'stinking corpse'?

Barack Obama's campaign website:

Diplomacy: Obama is the only major candidate who supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions.

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Transcript: the rumored Michelle Obama video

Earlier today pundit Roger Stone, interviewed on Fox News, discussed the rumored Michelle Obama "whitey" video. If true (and you can judge for yourself from this transcript), I believe it has the potential to send the Democratic nomination process into utter chaos.

RS: Well, uh, there's a buzz, that I believe now to be credible, that some indelible records exists of public remarks that Michelle Obama allegedly made, which are outrageous at worst... er, at best, but... uh... could be termed racist, including some... uh, uh... reference to white people as "whiteys", allegedly. And there's been a race here, Geraldo --

GR: Now wait a sec, wait a second... you can't... Roger, you can't just say that... and say you have no proof for...

RS: No, no. Let me finish. There's a race here between the... uh... Clinton research people, who are seeking this tape, and the Republican opposition researchers at the Republican National Committee. I now believe a network has this tape and believe that reliably and something like that could roil the race, which explains why, to me, Hillary Clinton is staying in this race. What other reason is there for her to stay in this race, other than hoping there is a bomb, and high level Clinton operatives say there is a bomb, of this nature? I have heard that from people I believe to be credible.

GR: Okay... hold it... hold it there... okay... we... we hear that you heard it. Let me go to Michael Brown for his response, and let me say that Roger Stone was the person who said that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was using the services of prostitutes... at least in that incendiary allegation there was [sic] some facts behind that...

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RS: There really has little to do with the general election yet, and more to do with Hillary Clinton staying in the race. At least seven news organizations have contacted me wanting to know how to get their hands on the tape, and giving me more information that I had after I'd spoken to each one of them! I now believe the tape exists; and I believe a network has it... if this pans out to be true based upon Michelle Obama's previous comment that this was the first time she had been proud of her country... which I think shows an attitude... it's problematic...

If Stone's report is accurate, I'll stand by my earlier statement. Barack Obama has done more to damage race relations in this country than any candidate since George Wallace.

Hat tip: MyTownTalks

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Barack Obama swiftboats his church

On Thursday, Barack Obama quit his controversial church, ending a decades-only relationship. Paraphrasing Bob Owens, the presumptive Democratic nominee admitted extremely questionable judgment for the past twenty years, as he attended services regularly at an institution famous for its outlandish, conspiratorial and racist sermons.

"We don't want to have to answer for everything that's stated in the church... We also don't want the church subjected to the scrutiny that a presidential campaign legitimately undergoes."

Obama said he was resigning "with some sadness... This is not a decision I come to lightly..."

"That is why I am deeply disappointed in Father Pfleger's divisive, backward-looking rhetoric, which doesn't reflect the country I see or the desire of people across America to come together in common cause," he said in a statement Thursday.

The rumor dominating media circles today is the supposed videotape that shows Michelle Obama speaking in church and pillorying "whitey".

If that really happened, I assume Barack Obama will claim he was never in church to hear his wife, either.

Put simply, Obama has now "swiftboated" his church. That is, he told the truth about it and its "divisive, backward-looking rhetoric."

Update: note that the flag pin made its reappearance on Obama's lapel.

Update II: The Obama campaigns thinks Americans are really, really stupid. Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs says, "I think what [decision] Barack Obama made in the past few days is a deeply personal, not political decision."

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Another Obama poster

Junior Cub Reporter Biff Spackle located this one in an Obama campaign office in Boston.


Two reactions: Hillary has endorsed Obama; and William Ayers must not be a liability for the Obama campaign in blue states.

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The price of appeasement

This is London:

Washington is laid to waste. The Capitol is a blackened, smoking ruin. The White House has been razed. Countless thousands are dead.


This is the apocalyptic scene terrorists hope to create if they ever get their hands on a nuclear bomb.

The computer-generated image below was posted on an Islamic extremists' website yesterday.

Prior to 9/11, we tried the Democratic approach to fighting terrorism. An escalating series of attacks culminated in catastrophic blows against Manhattan and Washington.

Our era must grapple with extremists who seek access to tiny war-machines capable of unimaginable destruction.

The thought of another Carter-esque, weak-willed appeaser as President is disturbing, at best.

Hat tips: AJ Strata and Larwyn

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Oh, the humanity! Iraq's shocking "Triangle of Debt"

Iraq's infamous "Triangle of Death" has transformed itself into a miasma of mortgage payments. Violence has given way to more basic human urges: like capitalism.

The U.S. military says violence across Iraq has reached its lowest level in more than four years after successes this year in breaking al-Qaida's and other Sunni insurgents' hold in western Iraq and -- more recently -- government crackdowns in the southern city of Basra and northern city of Mosul.

But the success in the "Triangle of Death", centered on the town of Iskandariyah, is perhaps the most dramatic...

The news isn't good: real estate prices are soaring; there is a limited supply of homes; and sales of desirable properties frequently result in bidding wars.

...some say it's almost impossible to find a place to live with sales prices doubling in certain neighborhoods and the most affordable homes being snatched up as soon as they're placed on the market.

"Day by day, the prices are increasing and I keep on decreasing my options," said Hussam Jassem, 35, a government worker who earns about $400 a month, a typical middle-class salary. A 750-square-foot home in a lower-middle-class neighborhood costs about $150,000. In the upper-middle-class neighborhood of Karada, a 2,300-square-foot plot of land alone costs $350,000.

I blame Bush. This capitalism thing is getting out of hand.

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McCain crushes Obama's foreign policy direction like an eggshell

Today John McCain employed everything but brass knuckles and a two-by-four on Barack Obama's egregious attempts at "foreign policy" (via Gateway Pundit and Larwyn):

"Senator Obama said the war was lost. Senator Obama said we had to have a specific withdrawal as soon as possible which would have been chaos, genocide, increased Iranian influence; Al-Qaeda restoring much of their strategy; Shiite-Sunni conflicts and we would have to come back."

"We are succeeding. Every indicator showed that the surge strategy has succeeded. Senator Obama was wrong in wanting to surrender. And, I will never surrender."

You gonna put some ice on that?

"Senator Obama has consistently offered his judgment on Iraq, and he has been consistently wrong. He said that General Petraeus' new strategy would not reduce sectarian violence, but would worsen it. He was wrong. He said the dynamics in Iraq would not change as a result of the 'surge.' He was wrong. One year ago, he voted to cut off all funds for our forces fighting extremists in Iraq. He was wrong. Sectarian violence has been dramatically reduced, Sunnis in Anbar province and throughout Iraq are cooperating in fighting al Qaeda in Iraq, and Shi'ite extremist militias no longer control Basra -- the Maliki government and its forces do."

Now that's gonna leave a bruise.

On Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of McCain's closest friends, suggested on CBS' "Face the Nation" that the two travel to Iraq together. Asked about the idea today, McCain said sure.

"Sure it would be fine. I go back every few months because things are changing in Iraq," he told the Associated Press in an interview. "I would also seize that opportunity to educate Sen. Obama along the way."

McCain also used the opportunity to criticize Obama for not visiting Iraq since 2006.

"If there was any other issue before the American people and you hadn't had anything to do with it in a couple of years, I think the American people would judge that very harshly," McCain said. "He really has no experience or knowledge or judgment about the issue of Iraq."

Medic! We've got a bleeder!

Add these mistakes to the lengthy list of Obama boners and you could have a McCain TKO before the race has even begun.

Even Bill Clinton says so.

Former President Bill Clinton said that Democrats were more likely to lose in November if his wife Hillary Clinton is not the party's presidential nominee, and suggested some people were trying to "cover this up" and "push and pressure and bully" superdelegates to make up their minds prematurely.

"I can't believe it. It is just frantic the way they are trying to push and pressure and bully all these superdelegates to come out," he said at a South Dakota campaign stop Sunday, in remarks first reported by ABC News. "'Oh, this is so terrible: The people they want her. Oh, this is so terrible: She is winning the general election, and he is not. Oh my goodness, we have to cover this up.'"

He's gonna feel that in the morning.

"I love my country more than I hate John McCain." - Kim du Toit

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Jimmy Carter Threat Level Advisory System

Looks we just moved to a new level.



He's like a fine wine... left open in the hot sun for days on end. He just gets worse with age.

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Carter: Iran a 'rational' nation; U.S. should establish friendly ties

Iran's FNA is reporting that former US President Jimmy Carter is urging Washington to resume friendly ties with Iran, a country he calls "rational."

Speaking at the Hay Festival yesterday, Carter suggested that the US should also provide nuclear power technology and fuel to Iran "as a show of goodwill."

"What happens if, in three years' time, Iran has a nuclear weapon? I'm not sure that is going to happen, but if it does, what do we do? They are rational people like all of us in this room. Do they want to commit suicide? I would guess not. So what we have to do is talk with them now and say to them we want to be their friends..."

"The United States must let Iran know that we want to give them fuel and everything they need for a non-military nuclear program. Twenty-five years ago we cut off trading with Iran. We've got to resume trading to show Iran we are friends..."

Carter also criticized President George Bush, saying it was a "serious mistake and terrible departure" from the actions of previous US presidents not to engage with countries with which they differed.

"The president of the administration in Washington is the first one to have ever done this and I think we close off ourselves from any sort of rational accommodation of the views of other parties in order to reach out on major goals..."

Carter makes Neville Chamberlain look like Genghis Kahn.

Update: Carl has two interesting stories involving related coverage of Carter's speech: "George Bush might even face prosecution on war crimes charges once he left office" and "Israel has 150 nukes. Israel's security is my prime concern."

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