Carter criticises Blair's subservience

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From AOL News:

Former United States President Jimmy Carter has criticised the British Government's "subservient" attitude towards the White House.

Mr Carter told BBC's Newsnight he believed Tony Blair was a good man, but that he could have used his influence more wisely.

The 81-year-old said: "There had once been a very strong voice from London in the shaping of a common policy. I have been really disappointed in the apparent subservience of the British government's policies related to many of the serious mistakes that have originated in Washington."

Mr Carter, an opponent of the war in Iraq, continued: "No matter what kind of radical or ill-advised policy was proposed from the White House, it seems to me that almost automatically the Government of Great Britain would adopt the same policy without exerting its influence.

"This was the case in the Middle East peace process, in the case of the Lebanese/Israeli war in the recent past and certainly in the ill-advised abandonment of the war against terrorism to substitute the war in Iraq."

Asked if he thought Britain was exerting its influence behind the scenes, he replied he had seen no evidence of that.

"I haven't seen the corrective effect of British disagreement with what the White House has proposed. It may be there, it hasn't been evident to the public," he said.

A Downing Street spokesman told the BBC Number 10 had nothing to say about Mr Carter's comments, adding that Mr Blair had made clear why he thought the transatlantic relationship was important.

In 1976 Mr Carter unseated the incumbent Gerald Ford to become the 39th US president, serving until 1981.

He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, when he was cited for his decades of work seeking peaceful solutions and promoting social and economic justice.

[conspiracy analyst]

Benns son who runs the development ministry or whatever it is called yesterday attacked the World Bank.

Carter attacks Blair for being subservient to Bush.

What no one will state is that corporate america has taken control of the City of London.

When July 7th occurred there was a training exercise on the same day in the City of London about how to evacuate banks from a 'terrorist' scare.

US politicians will sell you anything. Environmentalism from Gore, anti-americanism from Carter etc.

The bottom line is we are embedded to the US. For the umbilical cord to be broken we have to create a rupture. By getting to the truth of 9/11 can that rupture happen.

Sooner rather than later it will.