LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Former President Carter says President Bush’s administration is ‘the worst in history’ in international relations, taking aim at the White House’s policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy. The criticism from Carter, which a biographer says is unprecedented for the 39th president, also took aim at Bush’s environmental policies and the administration’s ‘quite disturbing’ faith-based initiative funding. ‘I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history,’ Carter told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in a story that appeared in the newspaper’s Saturday editions. ‘The overt reversal of America’s basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me.’ Carter spokeswoman Deanna Congileo confirmed his comments to The Associated Press on Saturday and declined to elaborate. He spoke while promoting his new audiobook series, ‘Sunday Mornings in Plains,’ a collection of weekly Bible lessons from his hometown of Plains, Ga. ‘Apparently, Sunday mornings in Plains for former President Carter includes hurling reckless accusations at your fellow man,’ said Amber Wilkerson, Republican National […]