Carter says Bush partly to blame for N.Korea test

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[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.

[GOP_1900AD]

Silence this man!

[WVNan]

There ought to be some way of shutting this idiot up. Is there some place we can protest him and tell him what we think of his foolishment?

[EGPWS]

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."

Day time as defined as sucking up and forking out the dough and night time as defined as actually pushing for UN resolutions and getting them?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Carter is a senile old bass turd. How cares what he says. The boy is braindead.

[EGPWS]

They never grow up and accept responsibility.

They never grow up to understand the definition of responsibility.

[lowbridge]

I remember when Carter was president, what a joke!!!!!

I was 7 years old when he was inaugurated. So I was blissfully ignorant about politics, the Presidency, the whole schmear. As a result, I didnt have a blood pressure problem like the rest of the nation.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

Jimmy is one killer swamp rabbit short of a full hatchery swimming in his head.

[EGPWS]

How can someone achieve the status of President of The United States of America and revert into such a lowlife POS?

Run for the position as a Democrat.

[Charlespg]

Jimmy has to work awful hard at being stupid these days.

No he's doing a fine job at that

[Beagle8U]

It seems like someone could drop a load of lumber on that old communist when they deliver to one of those habitat houses.

[Colorado Doug]

The Carter Center has a filter that keeps rejecting my emails. I am so sick and tired of hearing from the worst President in the history of our great country.

[mylife]

Grrrrrr

[Twinkie]

"Neville Chamberlain Blames Churchill For Starting WWII By Isolating Hitler."

Yeah, that says it real good. . and, too, I thought when Maddie Albright was talking about the "deal" with North Koreans that they wouldn't do nuclear enrichment and the like, that she stated "but, you see, they (NK) cheated (whine)." So, what was it exactly NK cheated on with regard to nuclear proliferation during the halcyon days and magical starlit nights of the Clinton regime, Jimmy? Maddie?

[Prost1]

I am an avid fan of Free Republic. I read it nearly daily and quite regularly.

I despise Jimmy Carter, his long gas lines, his Iran capitulation, his presidency, his preaching, his posturing, bow, everything about the man.

Having said that, and if I could be granted one Free Republic wish, it would be that there would not be any more threads about Jimmy Carter except his Obituary.

Only his Obituary is something I could find time to read with pleasure.

[Prost1]

I am an avid fan of Free Republic. I read it nearly daily and quite regularly.

I despise Jimmy Carter, his long gas lines, his Iran capitulation, his presidency, his preaching, his posturing, iow, everything about the man.

Having said that, and if I could be granted one Free Republic wish, it would be that there would not be any more threads about Jimmy Carter except his Obituary.

Only his Obituary is something I could find time to read with pleasure.

[Leo Carpathian]

You can say that again!

[sport]

Jimmy Carter is liable to say anything except the truth.

[Prost1]

"You can say that again!"

Too funny. I think I did.

[sport]

I agree.