Carter blasts Bush on Iraq 'lies': "There was no reason for us to become involved in Iraq recently. That was a war based on lies and misinterpretations from London and from Washington, claiming falsely that Saddam Hussein was responsible for [the] 9/11 attacks, claiming falsely that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. And I think that President Bush and Prime Minister Blair probably knew that many of the allegations were based on uncertain intelligence ... a decision was made to go to war [then people said] 'Let's find a reason to do so'.'
Before the war Mr Carter made clear his opposition to a unilateral attack and said the US did not have the authority to create a 'Pax Americana'. During his Nobel prize acceptance speech in December 2002 he warned of the danger of 'uncontrollable violence' if countries sought to resolve problems without United Nations input."
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