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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He is a contemptible loser who is trying to bury his legacy of incompetence an embarrassment.
Typical liberal response...blame someone else for their actions or in-actions. They never grow up and accept responsibility.
And at that I'm slandering Neville Chamberlain, who at least backed Churchill to the hilt when the balloon went up. A stark contrast to Carter, a poisonous vain little weasel who's done nothing but stab his successors in the back at every opportunity.
To infinite & beyond!
Agreed
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Since he feels free to comment, maybe you should too.
It wasn't written in stone, but for many years - decades and decades if not hundreds of years - former presidents didn't criticize a sitting president.
President Carter doesn't feel bound by this, and I think it is just awful.
SHAME ON YOU JIMMY CARTER ! ! !
My neighbor's dog that barks unceasingly when put outside is less annoying than carter. One weekend they went to New York and left him in his backyard. He was trained to bark whenever he had finished his job and was ready to go back in. He barked until they returned Sunday night at 8:30. I wanted to pull my hair out. Still, I would choose that over carter's yelping. I just want to hit him with a newspaper until he shuts the hell up. carter that is, not the neighbor's dog. ;)
How old is this p.o.s. Carter? Doesn't his family love him enough to get him into a home where he can be looked after and get his diapers changed regularly?
Gotta wonder if the comic strip "Dilbert" uses Carter as a resource.
From a national-security standpoint, I'd agree; tasteless & "MoveOnOrgish" as it is. But from an electoral standpoint, no; he still serves a purpose to remind fence-sitting voters what happens when pacifism-at-any-cost consumes someone's sense of self-preservation.
Thank God for Ronald Reagan.
The enemy within. Carter is doing the work of the North Koreans.
So Carter owes his Nobel Prize to Bush!!
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