<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16441" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This from a former president so hated that cute
cuddly bunnies would swim rivers in desperate kamikaze assassination attempts.
One thing ya gotta give to G.W. at least small furry forest
creatures don't want him whacked.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>g</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>----- Original Message ----- </FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>From: <</FONT><A
href="mailto:nickgier@adelphia.net"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>nickgier@adelphia.net</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To: <</FONT><A
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>vision2020@moscow.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 4:25 PM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Subject: [Vision2020] Jimmy Carter: Bush is Worst
President Ever</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>> Carter: Bush 'Worst' in World Relations<BR>> Saturday, May 19,
2007 3:29 PM EDT<BR>> The Associated Press<BR>> <BR>> LITTLE ROCK, Ark.
(AP) — Former President Carter says President Bush's administration is "the
worst in history" in international relations, taking aim at the White House's
policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy.<BR>> <BR>> The
criticism from Carter, which a biographer says is unprecedented for the 39th
president, also took aim at Bush's environmental policies and the
administration's "quite disturbing" faith-based initiative funding.<BR>>
<BR>> "I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world,
this administration has been the worst in history," Carter told the Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette in a story that appeared in the newspaper's Saturday editions.
"The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous
administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and
Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me."<BR>> <BR>>
Carter spokeswoman Deanna Congileo confirmed his comments to The Associated
Press on Saturday and declined to elaborate. He spoke while promoting his new
audiobook series, "Sunday Mornings in Plains," a collection of weekly Bible
lessons from his hometown of Plains, Ga.<BR>> <BR>> "Apparently, Sunday
mornings in Plains for former President Carter includes hurling reckless
accusations at your fellow man," said Amber Wilkerson, Republican National
Committee spokeswoman. She said it was hard to take Carter seriously because he
also "challenged Ronald Reagan's strategy for the Cold War."<BR>> <BR>>
Carter came down hard on the Iraq war.<BR>> <BR>> "We now have endorsed
the concept of pre-emptive war where we go to war with another nation
militarily, even though our own security is not directly threatened, if we want
to change the regime there or if we fear that some time in the future our
security might be endangered," he said. "But that's been a radical departure
from all previous administration policies."<BR>> <BR>> Carter, who won a
Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, criticized Bush for having "zero peace talks" in
Israel. Carter also said the administration "abandoned or directly refuted"
every negotiated nuclear arms agreement, as well as environmental efforts by
other presidents.<BR>> <BR>> Carter also offered a harsh assessment for
the White House's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, which helped
religious charities receive $2.15 billion in federal grants in fiscal year 2005
alone.<BR>> <BR>> "The policy from the White House has been to allocate
funds to religious institutions, even those that channel those funds exclusively
to their own particular group of believers in a particular religion," Carter
said. "As a traditional Baptist, I've always believed in separation of church
and state and honored that premise when I was president, and so have all other
presidents, I might say, except this one."<BR>> <BR>> Douglas Brinkley, a
Tulane University presidential historian and Carter biographer, described
Carter's comments as unprecedented.<BR>> <BR>> "This is the most forceful
denunciation President Carter has ever made about an American president,"
Brinkley said. "When you call somebody the worst president, that's volatile.
Those are fighting words."<BR>> <BR>> Carter also lashed out Saturday at
British prime minister Tony Blair. Asked how he would judge Blair's support of
Bush, the former president said: "Abominable. Loyal. Blind. Apparently
subservient."<BR>> <BR>> "And I think the almost undeviating support by
Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a
major tragedy for the world," Carter told British Broadcasting Corp.
radio.<BR>> <BR>>
=======================================================<BR>> List
services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>> serving the
communities of the Palouse since 1994.
<BR>>
</FONT><A href="http://www.fsr.net"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>http://www.fsr.net</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial
size=2>
<BR>> </FONT><A
href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</FONT></A><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>
=======================================================</FONT></BODY></HTML>