The White House is not being truthful on events leading up to former Jimmy Carter's trip to the Middle East, according to the former president. Full Article at Big News Network
We counseled President Carter against going to the region and particularly against having contact with Hamas.
No one in the State Department or any other department of the U.S. government ever asked him to refrain from his recent visit to the Middle East or even suggested that he not meet with Syrian President Assad or leaders of Hamas.
And my question: Since the result of this telling was that Mr. Carter proceeded directly to violate this U.S. policy and meet with these terrorists, what is President Bush prepared to do to put an end to this one-man defiance of our policy which so gratified the terrorists?
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
Before leaving on the extended visit to monitor an election in Nepal and then to visit Israel, the West Bank, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan, President Carter placed a telephone call to Ms. Rice to describe his itinerary and to inform her of his intended conversations ... She was in Europe and h...
President Carter has the greatest respect for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and believes her to be a truthful person. However, perhaps inadvertently, she is continuing to make a statement that is not true
President Carter is a private citizen and he made a decision to not comply with what the State Department asked him to do.
If the President, as our nation's chief law enforcer, fails to order Mr. Carter's passport revoked, how many more people like Carter may want to plot U.S. policy in this regard, do you imagine?
I don't know, you'll have to take a national survey.
I’m not claiming it’s a breakthrough.
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