[Marxism] Carter -- the BAD ex-president -- disagrees with Obama on torture photos

["Fred Feldman" <ffeldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carter disagrees with Obama on torture photo release


By David Edwards and Stephen Webster 

Published: June 1, 2009 
Updated 9 hours ago

Former president apparently lends support for "Truth Commission" on prisoner
abuse, says torture a crime "against our Constitution"

Former President Jimmy Carter, speaking to CNN on Monday, said he disagrees
with President Barack Obama's decision to withhold photos of prisoner abuse.
He added that Obama appears to be resolved against resurrecting the past by
punishing those in the Bush administration guilty of what Carter himself
considers "crimes against our Constitution"

"I respect what his decisions are," he told CNN's Campbell Brown. "I don't
have the responsibility to deal with the consequences. But I think that most
of his supporters were hoping he would be more open in the revelation of
what we've done in the past.

"But, ah, he's made a decision with which I really can't contend, that he
doesn't want to resurrect the past. He doesn't want to punish those that are
guilty of perpetrating what I consider crimes against our own laws and
against our constitution."

Carter added that while releasing the images may cause "further animosity"
toward the United States, the public knowledge that the photos simply exist
already serves that cause, whereas instead of seeing them for what they are,
the imagination can tend to fill in its own details.

And while Carter repeated several times that he will not criticize Obama for
his decision, he did seem to lend support for the so-called "Truth
Commission" that's been discussed in the House and Senate.

Saying that "prosecution is too strong a word," he added that what he would
"like to see is a complete examination of what did happen, the
identification of any perpetrators of crimes against our own laws or against
international law," said Carter. "And then after all that's done, decide
whether or not there should be any prosecutions."

Brown's interview with Carter will air on CNN, Monday night at 8 p.m. EST.

This video is from CNN.com, broadcast June 1, 2009.




________________________________________________
YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.
Send list submissions to: Marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Set your options at: 
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40archives.econ.utah.edu