[NYTr] Carter roasts Bush over Iraq

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sent by Dave Muller (southnews)

AFP - Nov 3, 2005

Carter roasts Bush over Iraq

 From correspondents in Washington

FORMER US president Jimmy Carter overnight accused President George W. 
Bush's administration of degrading moral standards underpinning decades 
of US foreign policy.

Mr Carter seized on a Washington Post report that the United States had 
set up secret detention centres around the world for terror suspects in 
an interview with NBC's Today Show.

"In the last five years there has been a profound and radical change in 
the basic policies or moral values of our country," said Mr Carter, a 
Democratic Party president between 1977 and 1981.

"This is just one indication of what has been done under this 
administration to change the policies that have persisted all the way 
through our history."

While Mr Carter said he had not seen proof the Bush administration 
manipulated intelligence in the run up to war with Iraq, he condemned 
the administration over claims that Iraq had links to terror groups.

"I think that the claims that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and the claims 
that he had massive weapons of mass destruction that would threaten our 
country were manipulated at least to mislead the American people into 
going to war," he said.

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