DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2002�
Carter says he would have voted against Iraq war resolution
FRI Oct 11 2002 13:19:37 ET
Washington (dpa) - Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.S. president Jimmy Carter on Friday said he opposed a resolution granting a successor president George W. Bush the power to attack Iraq without U.N. backing.
"I would have voted no, had I been in the Senate," he said on the Cable News Network (CNN), hours after he received the prize and after the Senate followed the House in backing the resolution allowing the superpower to strike to protect national security.
Carter, 78, said he believed the United States has an obligation to ensure Iraq is not producing or stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. But he added, "I think it should all be done through the United Nations and not unilaterally by the United States".
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