Dear Captain Codpiece,

I have some summer reading for you. It's only a magazine article so it will still leave you time to read More of My Pet Goat. This weekend's Guardian included a little primer from Jimmy Carter on how to be an ex-President. I thought it might prove useful for you. Maybe you'll manage one of those Nobel thingies!

A warning to Jimmy Carter

Now that you've blabbed about the size of Israel's double top secret nuclear arms cache I would be careful about returning to Israel anytime soon. You don't want to become another Mordecai Vanunu, do you?

Attention wingnuts!!!

The US government is sticking up for that America hating, anti-Judaite Jimmy Carter. Unleash thy venom!

Well - he was warned

It can only be a matter of time before former US President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter is "extraordinarily rendered" to somewhere unpleasant after yesterday's thinly veiled threat from increasingly irrelevant US Secretary of State Conoco-leezza Rice. After all, talking to the party that the Palestinian people voted to represent them is certainly no way peace!

In praise of America's greatest ex-President*

Having met with Hamas Jimmy Carter says that the Palestinian group will support the existence of Israel within the 1967 borders. Whether Israel will accept that is open to question. He also stated, absolutely correctly, that:

"the problem is not that I met with with Hamas in Syria. The problem is that Israel and the United States refuse to meet with someone who must be involved."

Because if no one talks to Hamas, who we must remember were elected by the Palestinian people in polls deemed to be reasonably free and fair, what the hell is the alternative?

*There is little doubt that he will continue to hold this title for at least another four years as George W. Bush will not be a contender.

Compare and contrast

Whilst Captain Codpiece and his evil minions are busy opposing sanctions on companies who do business with the genocidal regime in Khartoum probably because it might affect the sacred shareholder value 83 year old former US President is in Darfur wearing his "Don't You Dare Fuck With Me" T-shirt.

I don't think we have to worry about Dubya having these sorts of difficulties when he retires do we? (Please tell me he retires soon!)