Publicity Whore

Oh, good, Jimmy Carter, that one-term failure some of you may remember from the late 1970's, still thinks people care about his opinion.

BIRMINGHAM, England — Former President Jimmy Carter said Saturday the detention of terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base was an embarrassment and had given extremists an excuse to attack the United States.

Carter also criticized the U.S.-led war in Iraq as "unnecessary and unjust."

"I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A.," he told a news conference at the Baptist World Alliance's centenary conference in Birmingham, England. "I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts."

If Carter's travesty of a presidency didn't prove that the guy has absolutely no clue about anything except swinging a hammer and growing peanuts, this does. Jimmy Carter didn't understand the Islamic world or terrorism, or foreign policy and foreign relations in general, when American voters fired him in 1980, and he still doesn't today.

"Unnecessary and unjust", huh? Kind of like it was unnecessary and unjust for American citizens to be held as hostages for a year and a half? Unnecessary and unjust like that, President Carter?

Hear me now and believe me later, I'm far more embarrassed by Jimmy Carter flapping his ignorant gums than I am by anything that happens down in Cuba.