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Jimmy Carter->The Man Who Gave Us Islamic Iran

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Alistair Sim

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Jun 29, 2009, 1:05:56 AM6/29/09

http://actdcmetro.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/jimmy-carter-the-man-who-gave-us-islamic-iran/

Jimmeh Carter is the most unsuccessful president in the history of the
United States of America. If it wasn't for Jimmy-boy malaise would not be a
regular part of the political vernacular. If it wasn't for the peanut
President the American culture would never heard of Billy Beer. But Carter's
biggest contribution to the world is taking the west's best friend in the
Muslim World and turning it into the fascist Islamic, soon to be nuclear
Iran.

And that is Jimmy Carter's legacy Not the books, or the anti-semetic
diatribes, or even the Habitat for Humanity Houses in Florida that he build
with his wife Rosey because like much of what Carter has done those houses
are falling down.

No the achievement of Jimmy Carter's that will endure for a long time will
be the fact that we now have a bunch of Islamic crazies running Iran who are
want to control the entire Middle East, but first want to violently put down
its people's desire for freedom. When and if these nuts ever their hands on
"the bomb" the countless deaths will also be part of why we remember Jimmy
Carter.

Two years ago there was an intersting analyisis 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."

Here is the lesson for today:

Carter's belief that every crisis can be resolved with diplomacy - and
nothing but diplomacy - now permeates the Democratic Party. Unfortunately,
Carter is wrong. There are times when evil must be openly confronted and
defeated. KHOMEINI HAD the help of the PLO in Iran. They supplied weapons
and terrorists to murder Iranians and incite mobs in the streets. No wonder
Yasser Arafat was hailed as a friend of Khomeini after he seized control of
Iran and was given the Israeli Embassy in Teheran with the PLO flag flying
overhead.

Just like Jimmy Carter, President Obama is forgoing strength and achieving
weakness.

Carter really believed that a cleric - whose Islamist fanaticism he did not
understand in the least - would be better for human rights and Iran. Just
like Obama he believed in appeasement before confrontation. Lets hope the
result is a bit better this time.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has donned the mantle of Ayatollah
Khomeini, taken up bin Laden's call, and is fostering an Islamic apocalyptic
revolution in Iraq with the intent of taking over the Middle East and the
world.

Jimmy Carter became the poster boy for the ideological revolution of the
1960s in the West, hell bent on killing the soul of America. The bottom
line: Carter believed then and still does now is that evil really does not
exist; people are basically good; America should embrace the perpetrators
and castigate the victims.

IN THE '60s it was mass rebellion after the assassinations of Robert Kennedy
and Martin Luther King. When humanity confronts eternity, the response is
always rebellion or repentance. The same ideologues who fought to destroy
the soul of America with the "God is dead" movement in the 1960s are now
running the arts, the universities, the media, the State Department,
Congress, and Senate, determined more then ever to kill the soul of America
while the East attempts to kill the body. Carter's world view defines the
core ideology of the Democratic Party.

What is going on in Iraq is no mystery to those of us who have had our
fingers on the pulse of both Iran and Iraq for decades. The Iran-Iraq war
was a war of ideologies. Saddam Hussein saw himself as an Arab leader who
would defeat the non-Arab Persians. Khomeini saw it as an opportunity to
export his Islamic Revolution across the borders to the Shi'ites in Iraq and
then beyond to the Arab countries.

Throughout the war both leaders did everything possible to incite the
inhabitants of each country to rebel - precisely what Iran is doing in Iraq
today. Khomeini encouraged the Shi'ites across the border to remove Saddam
from power and establish an Islamic republic like in Iran.

The Carter administration scrambled to assure the new regime that the United
States would maintain diplomatic ties withIran. But on April 1, 1979 the
greatest April Fools' joke of all time was played, as Khomeini proclaimed it
the first day of the government of God.

In February 1979 Khomeini had boarded an Air France flight to return to
Teheran with the blessing of Jimmy Carter. The moment he arrived, he
proclaimed: "I will kick his teeth in" - referring to then Prime Minister
Shapour Bakhtiar, who was left in power with a US pledge of support. He was
assassinated in Paris by Iranian agents in 1991.

I sat in the home of Gen. Huyser, who told me the shah feared he would lose
the country if he implemented Carter's polices. Carter had no desire to see
the shah remain in power. He really believed that a cleric - whose Islamist
fanaticism he did not understand in the least - would be better for human
rights and Iran.

Micheal Evens has written a first hand account of how the Peanut President
gave us Islamic facism.

Father of the Iranian revolution

Michael D. Evans-

We just don't get it. The Left in America is screaming to high heaven that
the mess we are in in Iraq and the war on terrorism has been caused by the
right-wing and that George W. Bush, the so-called "dim-witted cowboy," has
created the entire mess. The truth is the entire nightmare can be traced
back to the liberal democratic policies of the leftist Jimmy Carter, who
created a firestorm that destabilized our greatest ally in the Muslim world,
the shah of Iran, in favor of a religious fanatic, the ayatollah Khomeini.

The shah was terrified of Carter. He told his personal confidant, "Who knows
what sort of calamity he [Carter] may unleash on the world?"

Let's look at the results of Carter's misguided liberal policies: the
Islamic Revolution in Iran; the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (Carter's
response was to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics); the birth of Osama bin
Laden's terrorist organization; the Iran-Iraq War, which cost the lives of
millions dead and wounded; and yes, the present war on terrorism and the
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

WHEN CARTER entered the political fray in 1976, America was still riding the
liberal wave of anti-Vietnam War emotion. Carter asked for an in-depth
report on Iran even before he assumed the reins of government and was
persuaded that the shah was not fit to rule Iran. 1976 was a banner year for
pacifism: Carter was elected president, Bill Clinton became attorney-general
of Arkansas, and Albert Gore won a place in the Tennessee House of
Representatives.

In his anti-war pacifism, 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."

He could have changed history by condemning Khomeini and getting the support
of our allies to keep him out of Iran.

The shah was terrified of Carter. He told his personal confidant, "Who knows
what sort of calamity he [Carter] may unleash on the world?"

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."

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