Jimmy Carter should have his AARP travel privileges revoked

and if he proceeds with his April 18 meet with Hamas he should be brought up on charges.

Unless he is acting at the behest of the State Dept, of course. Yep. American Thinker raises that odious possibility. (more at the link - including Sean McCormack's baby weasel responses to the questions about the Hamas question.)

Or, another chilling possibility, will be doing the dirty work under secret assignment from the US State Department? Just a month ago, the State Department tested the reaction of US relations with Hamas, floating such a possibility by oh so innocently asking on its blog:

Question of the Week: Should the U.S. Engage Hamas in the Peace Process Between the Israelis and Palestinians?

Let's review:

Hamas latest offering to the peace process was just this morning when they attacked Nahal Oz, killing two civilians. And in another good neighbor turn, Egypt has put its Army on alert because Hamas is threatening to blow up the wall. Again. And remember that heinous Yeshiva attack that killed 8? That was the handiwork of Hamas. Kidnapping? That's their bag, too. Hamas has been designated as the group holding Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit. The latest from Meshaal's office (the guy Jimmy's going to be pressing the flesh with) said they would "negotiate the return of Shalit's remains" if Israel did not release 350 Hamas terrorist killers currently in Israeli jails. Such peaceful fellows. Oh, and did I mention that the State Dept has also designated Hamas as a "foreign terrorist organization"? Yep, they did.

There's more. It looks like they're cheap, petty SOB's too. Good for us because they're proving to be very informative when it comes to revealing the linkage between Iran and al-Qaeda. From the fine folks over at Hot Air: Hamas In Iraq: Iran funds al-Qaeda.

Salah Al-Din (leader of the Iraqi Hamas chapter) accused Al-Qaeda of being subservient to Iran, [claiming] that they had [extensive] evidence to that effect. He said: ‘We found Iranian [currency], toman, at an Al-Qaeda headquarters that we uncovered. We have also captured Iranian weapons, not to mention audio and video recordings containing announcements by Al-Qaeda fighters that they had received training in Iranian military camps and that Al-Qaeda wounded were being transported to Iran for medical treatment.’

The good news? al-Qaeda in Iraq weakened - if you can believe anything you hear out of a leader of Hamas' mouth - that is.)

Salah Al-Din explained that as of late, Al-Qaeda in Iraq had considerably diminished in size - so much so that today it can be said to constitute 15 percent of what it was a year ago, [and that therefore, even] if Al-Qaeda has begun launching suicide operations, these [operations] are not proof of its strength…’

The bad news? That brings us to Obama and his boneheaded plan to "talk it over" with the Iranians. Yeah, that'll work all right. Hey, Obama. Get the memo - we are talking to the Iranians already. Sheesh.

(I'm sorry, but if I was a Democrat I would be pretty damn embarrassed at these two numbskulls and their dhimmitude. But that's just me.)

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