President Jimmy Carter against North Korean Policy
This is really tough to believe. Carter was the lead guy who established the present North Korean policy...now he's against it?? Double digit inflation Carter is against his own policy? Read on: ""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."
Somebody tell me what changed?? Other than Carter/Clinton negotiting a deal with Kim Jong Il with a wink and taking another don't look don't tell approach. All we did is make them agree not to develop the bomb and then give them the technology, parts and $640,000 to make it happen. Now that they detonated a device, Carter is complaining about policy?? Time for a memory check Mr President!! Hello, hello, can you hear me Jimmy... I voted for you...remember me??
For the record, Bush did nothing to change the policy with North Korea until Kim Jong Il had the monitoring camers disconnected and threw the IAEA out of the country. But, that didn't matter. The policy Jimmy and Bill put together already put the device on the fast track with the North Koreans!
posted by Tom | 10:11 AM
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Tom, I agree with you on this post, and your others. I've added your link to my blog, under Conservative Bloggers.
Keep up the good work.
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Rock
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There was a time when Jimmy Carter spoke nothing but good or he spoke nothing at all. (in regards to others in office) I have been disappointed in him in recent years. I bought his books because they were "inspirational". Now, he's just another jaded politician.
Goes to prove what we should have known all along - Kerry is not the only flip-flopper in the Democratic Party.
Speaking as one who has sat in former President Jimmy Carter's Sunday School class in Plains,Ga, and also had a picture taken with him and Rosylyn outside the church afterwards, I'll admit I'm a little prejudiced.
President Bush openly and publicly declared North Korea part of the "axis of evil" to the world. That fell just short in my opinion of declaring war. Even given the fact that North Korea has evil intentions, poking a stick in Kim Jun Il's eye just antagonized things. Given a choice of the Bush Diplomacy of name-calling, and the Carter-Clinton Diplomacy of seeking peaceful solutions, it is easy for me to choose.
Unfortunately, Clinton/Carter never followed up. North Korea continued to develop their nuclear capabilities but rearmed with $640 million dollars of your money and mine. Bush calling North Korea an Axis of Evil pointed the truth where it belonged. I don't see Carters Sunday School class as part of the axis of evil. I voted for Carter. I'm sorry I did. When it comes to economics he ran home mortgages up over 15% and caused double digit inflation. Remember, he was a one time govenor and a one time president. The American people gave him a chance and he proved himself incapable! I'm not saying I'm particularly smart about these things...Hell, I voted for Clinton not once, but twice! Shame on me!
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