Jimmy Carter: Bush's “Erroneous Policy” In Middle East Fostered Violence..

[kpete]

Carter: Bush has pursued 'erroneous' Mideast policy
Posted 8/5/2006

PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Former President Carter, who helped broker the historic Camp David peace accord, said President Bush has pursued an "erroneous policy" that has fostered violence in the Middle East.

Carter said the United States should work for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah and the world community should concentrate on a long-term solution, but he is uncertain whether Bush can accomplish a cease-fire.

"It depends on whether world opinion is strong enough to get the administration to change its erroneous policy, which has been to encourage the continuation of attacks on both sides," Carter, a Democrat, told The Grand Rapids Press in an interview Friday.

Carter's comments came a day before the U.S. and France agreed on a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that calls for an end to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, but would allow Israel to defend itself if attacked.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-08-05-carter-criticize_x.htm?csp=15

[Kagemusha]

1. I can just imagine the Freeper response.

"If it wasn't for Carter we wouldn't have had to support Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan in the first place! No Carter, no 9/11!"

Bet you'll see it.

[teryang]

2. Violence has been the Bush family business since 1917

"From 1917 to 1918 he (Samuel Bush) served on the War Industries Board, where he was in charge of the forgings, guns, small arms, and ammunition section and the later the facilities division."

Kevin Phillips, American Dynasty, Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush. P 21.

"Going back four generations, armaments production and arms dealing have made repeated appearances. Samuel Bush's Ohio steel business temporarily produced gun forgings in 1917-1918, even while Bush himself was in Washington regulating ordnance, among other things for the War Industries Board...

The ghost of George Herbert Walker...would probably just chuckle. The interwar corporate crony structure that he helped to develop--American International Corporation, Remington Arms, National City Bank, W.A. Harriman and Company, Georgian Manganese, American Ship and Commerce, and the the Union Banking Corporation, with their partial interlocking directorates (Harriman, Walker, Rockefeller, Pryor, Bush, et al.)--teamed builders and manufacturers of arms, ships, and munitions with liquid capital...

Prescott Bush, who died in 1972, never had to discuss publicly his role in the Union Banking Corporation, Brown Brothers Harriman's investment dealings with Nazi Germany or the purposes of that complicated sextet of German-connected companies...

As president, Bush senior gloried in the Gulf War and the 1989 invasion of Panama..."

Id. 267-268.