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Carter says Bush partly to blame for N.Korea test
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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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billclinton; bush; carter; clinton; jimmycarter; northkorea; nukes; rabbitbait
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To: Dog Gone

He is a contemptible loser who is trying to bury his legacy of incompetence an embarrassment.


21 posted on 10/20/2006 4:25:41 PM PDT by Wiggins
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To: Sub-Driver
Let's just say, for the sake of argument, it's 25% Bush's fault. That would make the other 75%......


22 posted on 10/20/2006 4:26:16 PM PDT by edpc (Violence is ALWAYS a solution. Maybe not the right one....but a solution nonetheless)
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To: Sub-Driver

Typical liberal response...blame someone else for their actions or in-actions. They never grow up and accept responsibility.


23 posted on 10/20/2006 4:26:27 PM PDT by skimask (People who care what you do don't matter.......People who matter don't care what you do.)
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To: demsux

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.


24 posted on 10/20/2006 4:26:27 PM PDT by Argus
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To: Sub-Driver
Never mind N Korea Jimmy, there is a problem more suitable to your expertise urgently requiring intervention - due to grievious mismanagement its almost impossible to schedule doubles at the WH tennis court these days.

To infinite & beyond!

25 posted on 10/20/2006 4:27:17 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Argus

Agreed


26 posted on 10/20/2006 4:27:32 PM PDT by demsux
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To: Sub-Driver
Turns out the Billy was the best of the litter.
27 posted on 10/20/2006 4:27:33 PM PDT by TruthWillWin
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To: TruthWillWin

the = that


28 posted on 10/20/2006 4:28:03 PM PDT by TruthWillWin
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


29 posted on 10/20/2006 4:28:08 PM PDT by Freedom4US (u)
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To: Sub-Driver
And I blame Carter for every terrorist attack on U.S. forces since this picture was taken. Only a liberal idiot would enable the terrorist state by legitimizing its existence with a hand shake and a kiss on the steps of the Whitehouse.

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SHAME ON YOU JIMMY CARTER ! ! !

30 posted on 10/20/2006 4:28:18 PM PDT by Delta 21 ( MKC USCG - ret)
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To: Sub-Driver

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. ;)


31 posted on 10/20/2006 4:28:39 PM PDT by small voice in the wilderness (The dems. can't have a fool-proof plan. There would be no one left in their base.)
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To: Sub-Driver

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?


32 posted on 10/20/2006 4:30:51 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Sub-Driver

Gotta wonder if the comic strip "Dilbert" uses Carter as a resource.


33 posted on 10/20/2006 4:30:59 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Never forget Matt Maupin)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
The country would be better off if Carter died.

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.

34 posted on 10/20/2006 4:31:38 PM PDT by kromike
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To: Sub-Driver
Bunny_hopps

"PRESIDENT CARTER CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN ATTACKED BY 'KILLER RABBIT'."

35 posted on 10/20/2006 4:31:57 PM PDT by seasoned traditionalist ("INFIDEL AND PROUD OF IT.")
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To: Sub-Driver

Thank God for Ronald Reagan.


36 posted on 10/20/2006 4:31:57 PM PDT by ItsForTheChildren
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To: Delta 21
One more thing, Jimmy...


37 posted on 10/20/2006 4:33:19 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Sub-Driver

The enemy within. Carter is doing the work of the North Koreans.


38 posted on 10/20/2006 4:33:36 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Sub-Driver
I personally think that Jimmah is in the late states of untreated syphilis.
39 posted on 10/20/2006 4:33:51 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative ("An empty limousine pulled up and Hillary Clinton got out")
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To: Sub-Driver
Carter's gall is worse than you imagine. Remember that he wouldn't even have been given the Nobel Prize if the committee had not wanted to embarrass President Bush.

So Carter owes his Nobel Prize to Bush!!

40 posted on 10/20/2006 4:33:53 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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