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Former US President Carter 'Disappointed' With Blair [failure to constrain President Bush's.....]
VOA News ^

Posted on 08/27/2006 7:45:57 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Former US President Carter 'Disappointed' With Blair By VOA News 27 August 2006

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says he is "extremely disappointed" with Tony Blair for what he says is the British prime minister's failure to constrain President Bush's policies toward Iraq.

Mr. Carter, an outspoken critic of the 2003 U.S.-led Iraq invasion, was quoted Sunday in Britain's Sunday Telegraph newspaper. He said he thought that Mr. Blair could have had a moderating influence on Washington, "and he has not."

Mr. Blair has been President Bush's closest international ally on Iraq, and Britain has the second largest contingent of troops in the country.

Mr. Carter said people in many countries he has visited equate U.S. policy with British interests,

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: blahblahblah; jimmycarter; killerrabbit
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To: neocon1984

Plains, Georgia has its idiot.


41 posted on 08/27/2006 9:10:40 AM PDT by TYVets (God so loved the world he didn't send a committee)
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To: Sub-Driver; All

In the run up to the Iraq war .. while Hillary was supposedly hawking her book in Europe, Bill Clinton was lobbying European members of the UN to vote against going to war in Iraq.

During one of Bill's lobbying efforts, he met up with Blair at a London cocktail party and book signing. According to a UK reporter, Blair and Bubba had a very loud and controntational discussion - in which Bubba informed Blair that if he continued to support Bush and the war, Blair would not win re-election. Bubba also tried to tell Blair that America was acting like a bully and needed to back off.

Funny .. I don't recall ever reading or hearing about that meeting in ANY AMERICAN MEDIA OUTLET ..??

Then, after that meeting and the successful advance by the USA and the UK in Iraq, Blair came to America to speak before a joint session of Congress. It was here that Blair tipped me off about his conversation with Bubba:

On July 17, 2003, Tony Blair made this statement:

“There is no more dangerous theory in international politics than that we need to balance the power of America with other competitive powers; different poles around which nations gather.

“Such a theory may have made sense in 19th century Europe. It was perforce the position in the Cold War.

“Today, it is an anachronism to be discarded like traditional theories of security. And it is dangerous because it is not rivalry but partnership we need; a common will and a shared purpose in the face of a common threat”. [Which is why Tony gets it!]


For those in Rio Linda – an anachronism means: “a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place; especially: one from a former age that is not compatible in the present”.

Personally, I believe the statement by Tony was a reply – and slap in the face - to Bill Clinton’s confrontational meeting with Tony in London [if you stick with Bush you will lose your election].

And .. Tony did win re-election.


42 posted on 08/27/2006 9:39:18 AM PDT by CyberAnt (Drive-By Media: Fake news, fake documents, fake polls)
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To: Sub-Driver

Why wont this sack of crap die already?


43 posted on 08/27/2006 9:41:07 AM PDT by ffusco (Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
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To: ffusco
Why wont this sack of crap die already?

You beat me to the punch line... Carter is like the old crabby, cantankerous aunt-in-law who never dies and outlives all the good aunts and uncles.

44 posted on 08/27/2006 9:46:12 AM PDT by American in Singapore (Bill Clinton: The Human Stain)
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To: MamaLucci

Guys like that are more worried about their legacy. Both Carter and Clinton are working overtime to fix how history sees them.


45 posted on 08/27/2006 10:45:14 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: Dutch Boy

He reacted to his defeat for reelection by retreting to Plains, GA and setting up the Carter center. He also withdrew from the Baptist convention and teaches his own superior form of Christianty while he criticizes fundamentalism. So, he is isolated in his own world scolding others.


46 posted on 08/27/2006 11:06:31 AM PDT by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: American in Singapore

Sad but true. Reagan, Nixon, Ford not well... Sack of Crap... doing great.


47 posted on 08/27/2006 11:10:11 AM PDT by ffusco (Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
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To: Sub-Driver
UUgghh! And we are all disappointed that you do not have the class to shut your mouth about things that don't concern you anymore! Please go back to picking peanuts and shut up!
48 posted on 08/27/2006 2:31:05 PM PDT by Bush gal in LA
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49 posted on 08/27/2006 2:41:13 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ......Help the "Pendleton 8' and families -- http://www.freerepublic.com/~normsrevenge/)
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To: NormsRevenge

Bush and US Republicans are too gutless to call Carter what he is, but I sure wish Blair would comment:
"Being insulted by the most failed President of the last century is really quite a compliment, I would expect that his negative endorsement should actually HELP my poll numbers"


50 posted on 08/28/2006 6:52:13 AM PDT by Idaho Whacko
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To: Sub-Driver
What the DUmp thinks
51 posted on 08/28/2006 1:15:17 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Sub-Driver

Good ol Jimmah "Americas best days are behind her" Carter.

I cant believe this guy was a submariner let alone a president


52 posted on 08/28/2006 1:17:23 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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