5.21.2007
U.S. Regime "Worst Ever" -- Carter (Independent.co.uk)
By Ruth Elkins
Published: 20 May 2007
Former President Jimmy Carter says President George Bush's administration is "the worst in history" in international relations, taking aim at the White House's policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy.
The criticism, which a biographer says is unprecedented for Mr Carter, also took aim at Mr Bush's environmental policies and the administration's "quite disturbing" faith-based initiative funding. "I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history," Mr Carter told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Douglas Brinkley, a Tulane University presidential historian and Carter biographer, described Mr Carter's comments as unprecedented. "This is the most forceful denunciation he has ever made about an American president," Mr Brinkley said.
Mr Carter came down hard on the Iraq war. "We now have endorsed the concept of pre-emptive war where we go to war with another nation militarily, even though our own security is not directly threatened, if we want to change the regime there or if we fear that some time in the future our security might be endangered," he said.
But Amber Wilkerson, a Republican National Committee spokeswoman, said it was hard to take Mr Carter seriously because he also "challenged Ronald Reagan's strategy for the Cold War".
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Published: 20 May 2007
Former President Jimmy Carter says President George Bush's administration is "the worst in history" in international relations, taking aim at the White House's policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy.
The criticism, which a biographer says is unprecedented for Mr Carter, also took aim at Mr Bush's environmental policies and the administration's "quite disturbing" faith-based initiative funding. "I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history," Mr Carter told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Douglas Brinkley, a Tulane University presidential historian and Carter biographer, described Mr Carter's comments as unprecedented. "This is the most forceful denunciation he has ever made about an American president," Mr Brinkley said.
Mr Carter came down hard on the Iraq war. "We now have endorsed the concept of pre-emptive war where we go to war with another nation militarily, even though our own security is not directly threatened, if we want to change the regime there or if we fear that some time in the future our security might be endangered," he said.
But Amber Wilkerson, a Republican National Committee spokeswoman, said it was hard to take Mr Carter seriously because he also "challenged Ronald Reagan's strategy for the Cold War".
(More ... The Independent > News > World)
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