Nobel Prize Winner Urges Alternatives to War with Iraq

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Nobel Prize Winner Urges Alternatives to War with Iraq

Former US president Jimmy Carter called on the Bush administration Friday to exhaust all other alternatives before going into a war with Iraq.

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Former US president Jimmy Carter called on the Bush administration Friday to exhaust all other alternatives before going into a war with Iraq.

"I do think that in every way before we go into a war of any kind we should exhaust all other alternatives including negotiation, mediation or, if that's not possible in the case of Iraq, working through the United Nations," Carter told CNN after winning this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

The former US president won the prize only hours after the US House and Senate voted overwhelmingly to grant US President George W. Bush authority to use military force to attack Iraq unilaterally and abolish the country's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.

He said the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein should be forced to comply with the UN Security Council's resolutions, but that "ought to be done through the United Nations not unilaterally."

Carter, Democratic president from 1977 to 1981, has won the prize for his tireless work as an ex-president in trying to bring peace to places from Haiti to the Korean Peninsular.

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