Bush has brought US international disgrace: Carter

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Bush has brought US international disgrace: Carter


Reno, Nevada: Former US president Jimmy Carter is urging northern Nevadans to elect his son, Jack, to the Senate to help combat a Bush administration he says has brought “international disgrace” to the country.
The former president told a crowd of about 300 on the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno that the nation is more sharply divided that it has ever been as a result of Bush’s policies.
The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, he says he’s deeply embarrassed that the American government now stands convicted around the world as one of the greatest abusers of civil rights. He continued the theme in a dinner speech to 700 at a Democratic fundraiser tonight, saying every past president has been a supporter of human rights, until this one.
Jack Carter is bidding to unseat Republican Senator John Ensign.
Both father and son said Ensign must go because he has voted 96% of the time with the Bush administration.
They say that in addition to bungling foreign policy, Bush has cut taxes for the rich to the detriment of working Americans.
The former president say that president George Bush’s policies have been a radical departure from what all previous presidents have done, including Republicans like Bush’s own father, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon and Dwight Eisenhower.
He says never before has the US had a policy of pre-emptive war, as was the case in what he called an “ill-advised invasion” of Iraq. AGENCIES



Anti-US feelings may last decades, says Bush aide

Washington: Anti-American feelings around the world have worsened in recent years because of the Iraq war, US policy toward Israel and America’s “sex and violence culture, the state department official in charge of dealing with the US image abroad said.
“The anti-Americanism, the concern around the world ... this ideological struggle, it’s not going to change” quickly, undersecretary of state Karen Hughes said. “It’s going to be the work of years and maybe decades.” Hughes, a longtime adviser to Bush, has worked for more than a year to retool the way America sells itself overseas, but she acknowledged that success can be next to impossible to measure. Hughes said the Iraq war “is the latest excuse” for anti-American grievance in the Muslim world. AP