http://www.wdaftv4.com/fullstory.asp?ID=11388
Jimmy Carter: Bush not in line with American Values
Kansas City, MO - President Jimmy Carter says President Bush's policies
conflict with American values. More than a thousand people packed into
Unity Temple on the Plaza for the former president to sign a copy of his
new book "Our Endangered Values." Reviews call the book biting political
commentary, despite the fact that there's an unwritten rule in American
politics that former presidents do not criticize current ones. Carter says
he wrote this book reluctantly, but did so because he just couldn't stay
silent anymore. "In the last 5 years there's been a dramatic and disturbing
and radical change in the values of this country," Carter said. For
example, he says peace is an American value, not pre-emptive war: "we don't
wait until our country is threatened," Carter said, "we publicly announced
our new policy is to attack a county, invade a country, bomb a county." He
says another American value is human rights. For decades the US has
supported the Geneva convention saying we won't torture prisoners, but he
says now "our senators are voting to keep torture. It's inconceivable this
would happen in the United States of America." Carter also says American
politics is being infused with what he calls "fundamentalist" religion.
Carter, who is a born again Christian, says blurring the line between
church and state is dangerous. Carter says he's not in politics anymore,
and his new book is not partisan. He criticizes Democrats for being out of
touch on the abortion issue. "I don't think the Democratic party ought to
identify itself with freedom of choice, with abortion," he said, "it's a
litmus test for many people and I have a problem with abortion." Carter
hopes his book helps Americans debate these issues and decide on election
day what America's future will look like. Carter's own presidency was
controversial, but since then his humanitarian efforts in the world earned
him a Nobel Peace Prize.
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