CARTER SAYS REMARK ABOUT BUSH A DISASTEROUS MISTAKE
by R J Shulman
PLAINS, Ga - Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday that his remarks about the current Bush administration’s foreign policy as being the “worst in history” were “careless” and taken out of context. Carter’s original comments had appeared in a column in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Speaking on NBC’s Today, the former chief executive said “What I really meant to say was that any negative comments that I might make about George W. Bush would be the “worst comments in history.” Carter’s retraction came after a spokesman for the White House had dismissed Carter by saying that the former President was "irrelevant.”

Rumors that Carter was forced to retract his earlier comments was laid to rest by Vice President Dick Cheney who said, “All I said to that irrelevant Carter was that if he loves those commies in Cuba so much, I’d offer him a free trip as far as Guantanamo.” “I don’t recall,” said Attorney General Alberto Gonzales when questioned about Carter's sudden retraction, “that I authorized torturing anyone as irrelevant as Jimmy Carter.”