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Old 9th Sep 2006, 18:17
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Originally Posted by microlight AV8R
"We now have a situation where America is so unpopular overseas that even in countries like Egypt and Jordan our approval ratings are less than 5 per cent. It is a shameful and pitiful state of affairs and I hold your British prime minister to be substantially responsible for being so compliant and subservient"

Former US President Jimmy Carter.
It is not my place to comment on your country's political leadership, but to hold this most ineffective of US Presidents up as a standard to beat Blair with is ironic in the extreme!

Amazing how he's grown a set since leaving office! Too bad he didn't do much while IN office. (And since breaking the tradition of not criticizing succeeding Presidents.)