Jimmy 'No Shame' Carter

Jimmy Carter reached a new low as an ex-president last weekend when, while on foreign soil, he called the war in Iraq "unnecessary and unjust" and said the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay provided "impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts."

Let me tell you what I think provides the impetus and excuses to terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts – the un-American behavior of ex-presidents like Jimmy Carter.

TRENDING: Nancy Pelosi's election-rigging H.R. 1

What Carter said would be bad enough if spoken here in the United States, but on foreign soil, it is beyond the pale.

Now I don't have any objection to policy disagreements. It's a free country and we ought to have a lively and open debate. I have my own concerns about the way the war in Iraq is being fought – with shades of Vietnam political correctness.

My beef, besides the venue, is with the words he chose.

Imagine you are fighting for your country in Iraq right now. How would you feel if you heard an ex-president say your presence there is "unnecessary"? How would you feel if you had a son or daughter killed in the line of duty in this conflict?

His words are demoralizing to our troops and to our country. He has become a bitter, divisive and petty political figure – even when he is supposedly teaching Bible studies.

The man is shameless. He can't control his tongue.

But it gets worse.

When he calls the war "unjust," whose passions is he enflaming?

That's right – the enemy's.

While claiming that American servicemen guarding the lowest life forms on the planet at Gitmo are the ones providing impetus and excuses to the terrorists, Carter should look in the mirror. He is the one who is giving aid and comfort to al-Qaida, the Baathists and the other Islamo-fascists who would slit his throat if ever given the opportunity.

Carter actually insisted that the treatment of prisoners at Gitmo "may be an aggravating factor" of terrorism.

He may be right, in a sense. If we didn't coddle the terrorist prisoners with their choice of meals, provide them with Qurans and opportunities to pray five times a day, and have national debates here about whether the air-conditioning was high enough or too high, their comrades might not be so eager to join them at Club Gitmo.

I'm sick of hearing about the conditions at Gitmo – hearing them compared by members of Carter's party with Nazi concentration camps and the Soviet gulags. The prisoners there are getting three squares a day. They are not being beaten and tortured.

They're playing volleyball.

Has Carter been to Gitmo? If not, I will personally pay his one-way fare.

Just exactly what is it about the conditions that he finds objectionable?

Personally, and I think I speak for most Americans, I find the conditions far too accommodating for the terrorist scum housed there. These are the hard-core al-Qaida and Taliban insiders – the prisoners who we suspect have some knowledge of future terrorist attacks or the whereabouts of top leaders.

What would Carter do? Love them into talking? If so, he should be happy. That appears to be our current policy.

"I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the USA," he said.

You know what I think is a disgrace to the USA? When ex-presidents travel to foreign lands, demean their country, demoralize brave fighting men risking their lives, and encourage the enemy with lies and shameful attacks on the conduct of our servicemen.

Jimmy Carter, you are a disgrace.