An' the crux of what Jimmy Carter had to say, preachin' aside, is that Bush's policies are hindering fledging democracies all over the world with his pulling back of personal freedoms... Things aren't getting better in these countries but getting worse by the day...

Yeah, the US needs to take the moral ground on human rights ande isn't. Quite the contrary under the current administration... If one were to think how best to set back human rights around the world, they couldn't have a better blueprint than the one that Bush and his friends have etched...

Bobert