Carter Claims US Engages In Torture

Former President Carter again steps in it - claiming that the US tortures prisoners. Nothing like using his bully pulpit as a former President to make the foreign policy and national security posture of the sitting President all the more difficult in a global war launched by Islamist terrorists against the US.

"I don't think it. I know it," Carter told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
"Our country for the first time in my life time has abandoned the basic principle of human rights," Carter said. "We've said that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to those people in Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo, and we've said we can torture prisoners and deprive them of an accusation of a crime to which they are accused."

Carter also said President Bush creates his own definition of human rights.

No evidence that this happens mind you. He just states it; the media dutifully regurgitates it, and it's accepted as fact by the left.

This from a guy who didn't bother with the human rights of the diplomats in the US embassy in Tehran in 1979. They got to sit and be paraded in front of cameras blindfolded for more than a year.

That gets a pass.

Interrogating terrorists and suspected terrorists to find out what they know so that other lives can be saved is deemed by Carter to be terrorism.

Carter redefines the Geneva conventions to include terrorists, even though there is no such protection under the conventions for persons not in uniform - you are entitled to protections if you are a soldier in uniform or a civilian - not a terrorist or someone operating outside of a uniform.

If you want to give terrorists protection, just come out and say it - create the terrorist protection act and be done with it (though the military commissions act does extend civil rights protections to terrorists ignoring decades of precedence on the rights of terrorists and those engaging in war against the US out of uniform.

Also, recall that less than a week ago he was busy saying that calling the situation in Darfur a genocide was not helpful. He's got no problem redefining human rights when it suits him just fine. Of course, his definitions don't fit with established international law, and his positions are often to the detriment of the victims - the residents of Darfur for example, or actively assist terrorists in their agitprop campaigns against the West (as per his comments about US engaging in terrorism).

What a pitiful hack.