November 10, 1999

Carter criticizes sanctions on Iraq
___WASHINGTON (RNS)--Former President Jimmy Carter has sharply criticized the U.S. policy of sanctions against Iraq and said he is working with evangelist Billy Graham to help people who are suffering in that country.
___"In Iraq ... our ill-advised, sustained sanctions on shipments of food and medicine and so forth have caused a quintupling of the infant mortality rate in the last seven years," Carter said in an interview with "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly," Public Broadcasting Service program Oct. 29.
___"Billy Graham and I agreed--I contacted Billy Graham personally--that it would be a good thing to bypass Saddam Hussein and to go directly to the religious leaders of Iraq," Carter said.
___"What we are trying to do is to let the American people know ... that when we try to impose sanctions to hurt Saddam Hussein, we actually hurt the people who are already suffering under his despotic leadership," Carter said.

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