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01/19/2006:

"The Crimes of Jimmy Carter"

...Carter may come across today as a sort of benign and liberal old sage, but these statements are in flat contradiction to his practice as the 39th president from 1977-1981. When asked if the U.S. should rebuild Vietnam, a country it destroyed at a cost of three million Vietnamese lives and 58,000 U.S., his glib response was, "Well, the destruction was mutual."

The Shah Pahlevi regime, which had come to power in Iran in a CIA-sponsored coup in 1953, was renowned for the murderous brutality of its secret police. Carter visited the Shah in 1979 and praised him for his "progressive administration" at a time when the Shah's military was gunning down thousands of unarmed demonstrators.

In response to the Shah's fall in the 1979 revolution, Carter, in his 1980 State of the Union address, set forth his Carter Doctrine: "Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force."
countrpunch.org

And don't forget Guatemala and El Salvador.