Posted on 10/20/2006 4:18:04 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Carter says Bush partly to blame for N.Korea test
By Adam Tanner 34 minutes ago
Former President Jimmy Carter said on Friday the Bush administration was partly responsible for North Korea's decision to test a nuclear device by isolating the Asian country, and he urged Washington to change course and talk with Pyongyang.
"Obviously most of the blame is on North Korea but it is U.S. policies that have brought us to this status," he told Reuters while riding between campaign stops for his son Jack who is running for the U.S. Senate in Nevada.
Carter, president from 1977 to 1981, negotiated a deal during a visit to North Korea in 1994 over the reclusive communist state's nuclear program when fellow Democrat Bill Clinton was president.
"The Bush administration changed that policy," he continued. "They put in the trash can the agreement with North Korea, and as a result of that -- and threatened North Korea with military attack -- and as a result of those threats and the discarding of the previous agreement, North Korea announced that they were withdrawing from the Non-Proliferation Treaty."
"It's like night and day. It was daytime when Clinton was in office that totally prohibited and prevented any sort of plutonium enrichment," he said. "All that was dramatically changed under George Bush and now we have the North Koreans having exploded a plutonium bomb."
Carter said he favored resuming talks with North Korea.
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Neville Chamberlain Blames Churchill For Starting WWII By Isolating Hitler.
Carterfault
The guy totally lacks class. No former President behaved this way. What a total utter loser.
How 'bout we send Carter to "resume the talks" and then MOAB the lot of them.
The more left-leaning media always seeks this idiot out for comments.
Jimmah Khan, nukear engineer.
Holy cr*p, just when you think gall has reached it`s highest level up comes Jimmah "nukes for you" Carter.
Great!!!
And I wish the former Democrap presidents whose last names start with the letter 'C' would sit down and STFU! They are treading on my last nerve ending!
Peanut brain and crooked dick still fantisize they are President because they screwed up so badly when they were in power.
How can someone achieve the status of President of The United States of America and revert into such a lowlife POS?
Jimmy Critter makes that Peanut guy with the tophat look like Einstein!!!
WHO EXACTLY CARES WHAT THIS MEGALOMANIAC SAYS???
DIE SCREAMING JIMMUH
Semper Fi
He needs to back and grow some peenuts!
He`s the David Dinkins of the Presidency.
STFU, Jimmah.
Do the right thing goober, and choke on a bowl of grits.
LOL --- exactly.
Carter is worse than an utter digrace and Marxist tool.
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