Carter the Critic Didn't Spare His Successors

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : Bill Clinton"You could write a whole book" on the personal and political antipathy between the two Democrats.
24% : As the president weighed going to war in Iraq, Mr. Carter spoke out against his authorization of tribunals to try terrorist suspects; called his "axis of evil" labeling of North Korea, Iran and Iraq "overly simplistic and counterproductive"; and warned that the administration was "disavowing U.S. commitments" on arms and human rights and that "American stature will surely decline further if we launch a war in clear defiance of the United Nations.
11% : "Mr. Carter reserved much of his criticism of Mr. Bush for private correspondence, writing to senators and the leaders of the countries in the United Nations Security Council to urge them against joining American war efforts in the Persian Gulf.

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