Tammy Bruce: Rice Warned Carter Over Hamas

Rice Warned Carter Over Hamas

But, just like everyone else on the international scene, he ignored her and went about his business.

Rice says Carter was warned against meeting with Hamas

KUWAIT CITY (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday the Bush administration explicitly warned former President Jimmy Carter against meeting with members of Hamas, the Palestinian faction that controls the Gaza Strip and which is regarded by the U.S. as a terror group.

Rice, attending a regional meeting on Iraq's security and future, contradicted Carter's assertions that he never got a clear signal from the State Department. Rice told reporters that the U.S. thought the visit could confuse the message that the U.S. will not deal with Hamas.

"I just don't want there to be any confusion," Rice said. "The United States is not going to deal with Hamas and we had certainly told President Carter that we did not think meeting with Hamas was going to help" further a political settlement between Israel and the Palestinians.

The fact that there is a discussion at all, approved by us, between Israel and a terrorist organization is pathetic. But, of course, Carter and everyone else, continues to be played by these beasts.

Carter said top Hamas leaders told him during seven hours of talks in Damascus over the weekend that they are willing to live next to Israel [well heck yeah, it's so much easier to kill Jews when you're right next to them!], but a top Hamas official said the group would never outright recognize the Jewish state...

Carter won no specific concessions from Hamas. He defended his trip during remarks Monday in Jerusalem. He said he failed to convince the top Hamas boss, Khaled Mashaal, that he could gain international goodwill if he stopped rocket fire on Israel for one month.

"I did the best I could," Carter said. "They turned me down, and I think they're wrong."

Hey, Khaled, if you just stop murdering Jews for a month, and then go right back to it, everyone will feel so much better! And isn't it nice that Carter feels the need to make sure everyone knows that the keep-killing-innocent-people agenda of Hamas is "wrong." Because, you know, I'm sure Carter feels it's important for people to not think that killing Jews is a good thing. I suppose because in his depraved world to kill or not kill Jews is a such a funky gray moral area.

Posted by Tammy · April 22, 2008 01:18 PM · Permalink
Corruption | Incompetence | Jew-Hatred | Malignant Narcissism | Terrorism

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Hamas is pure and simple - a murder regime. Every single Hamashole needs to be killed.

Posted by: Ripper at April 22, 2008 07:03 PM

A seven hour meeting? Gad. About what could they talk?

Jimmuh: "If you'd only stop killing Jews for a month, we could facilitate an international dialogue that..."

Hamas: "We will always kill Jews. All jews must die. This is why we exist. This is the path of Jihad!"

Jimmuh: "But..."

Hamas: "Kill!"

Jimmus: "But I'm Jimmuh Carter and..."

Hamas: "Are you a Jew?"

Jimmuh: "Well, no, but..."

Hamas: "We kill all the Jews!"

Jimmuh: "But..."

Posted by: Mike at April 22, 2008 07:11 PM

Perhaps the state department should've actually taken a stand and told Carter he simply wasnt allowed to meet with Hamas. We told Bobby Fischer he couldnt play chess in the former Yugoslavia, why would we not tell Carter that he has limtis as to what he can do? The Bush administration has no backbone at all.

Posted by: Edmund Kline at April 22, 2008 11:26 PM

Carter is the gift that keeps on giving for the "NEW" Democrat party. Extreme leftist...check...Weak on defense....check...Let terrorists and half-assed dictators inimadate America on the National Stage...check...

Carter can have only one hope now for his "legacy" and that is that Barry Hussein Obama becomes president...then all crap Carter did will seem like the innocent foolishness of a child compared with what BHO will bring our land.

On a positive note, a BHO presidency (one term) would force the Democrats to become the party of JFK once again and not the party of Stalin which they have become (Check out the vile hatred and evil of DailyKos and HuffintonPost)...or they will not gain the presidency again for 20 years.

Posted by: Sparky at April 24, 2008 05:51 PM

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