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| Carter attacks Blair's Iraq role |
| Former US President Jimmy Carter has criticised outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair for his "blind" support of the war in Iraq.
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 19-May-2007
2:21:42 AM |
| Mr Carter told the BBC Mr Blair's backing for US President George W Bush had been "apparently subservient".
He said the UK's "almost undeviating" support for "the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world".
Mr Blair leaves office at the end of next month.
Mr Carter said that if Mr Blair had distanced himself from the Bush administration's policy during the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq it might have made a crucial difference to American political and public opinion.
The former president has been a fierce critic of the US-led war in Iraq.
In an interview last year, he said he was "disappointed" by Tony Blair's failure to use his influence with President Bush more wisely.
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, for what presenters cited as decades of work seeking peaceful solutions and promoting social and economic justice.
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