Carter Exposes Bush Administration Lie on Cuba
from the last-honest-President dept.
Geov Parrish, writing for the Working for Change web site, has a nice piece on the contradictions between what dubya’s undersecretary of state for arms control, John Bolton, said in a recent speech to the Heritage Foundation, and what ex-President Jimmy Carter said he’d been told by the Administration in briefings prior to his Cuba visit. Specifically, Bolton said “the United States believes that Cuba has at least a limited offensive biological-warfare, research-and-development effort,” and that Cuba was selling biological weapons to Iran, among others. Carter, on the other hand, said he had been told by dubya’s terrorism experts in the State Department and the White House that there was no evidence Cuba was exporting terrorism. The piece goes on to put the flap in the larger context of the U.S. government’s history of lies on Latin America.
