Posted on 10/10/2007 12:52:08 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Jimmy Carter calls Cheney a "disaster" Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:28pm EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday denounced Vice President Dick Cheney as a "disaster" for the country and a "militant" who has had an excessive influence in setting foreign policy.
Cheney has been on the wrong side of the debate on many issues, including an internal White House discussion over Syria in which the vice president is thought to be pushing a tough approach, Carter said.
"He's a militant who avoided any service of his own in the military and he has been most forceful in the last 10 years or more in fulfilling some of his more ancient commitments that the United States has a right to inject its power through military means in other parts of the world," Carter told the BBC in an interview to air later on Wednesday.
"You know he's been a disaster for our country," Carter said. "I think he's been overly persuasive on President George Bush and quite often he's prevailed."
Asked to comment on Carter's remarks, Megan Mitchell, a spokeswoman for the Republican vice president, said, "We're not going to engage in this type of rhetoric."
Carter, a Democrat who was president from 1977 to 1981 and won the 2002 Nobel Peace prize for his charitable work, is a strong critic of the Iraq war and has often been outspoken in his criticism of President George W. Bush.
In a newspaper interview in May, Carter called the Bush administration the "worst in history" in international relations.
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How can a VP (hell even Algore) be “worst”? How hard is it to hang around in case the president dies, break tie votes in the Senate, and go schmooze at dignitary funerals?
Can it Jimmy!
Come on Jimmy, you know what a disastrous administration looks like. Is your memory getting fuzzy?
Wow...hello, Kettle? This is Pot...you’re black.
Carter probably thinks Cheney’s in too deep with the JOOOOOOOOS again.
Jimmuh who?
I do get so tired of hearing his constant whining and complaining about this president and vice president. It must really chap his rear to see how good our economy is doing, since he failed so miserably at all of it.
And this from a man who knows disasters firsthand having been a disaster all his life, presided over a disaster from 1977 until 1981 and is still working daily to turn America into a disaster.
Like Mondale was so great...
This racist, anti-Semitic terrorist lickspittle isn’t fit to shine Dick Cheney’s boots.
Jimmy’s just jealous that Cheney has more power as VP than Jimmy had as President.
They only use Carter (Spit) as a mouthpiece to print what they wish they could say 24/7.(Instead of 23/7).
They have been able to sculpt a puppet out of feces, kind of like a Pinoccio gone wrong.
Yep, Carter would know something about being a disaster...considering he is one.
Tantamount to Michael Moore calling Al Gore fat.
‘Carter, a Democrat who was president from 1977 to 1981...’
....brought about the Islamofacist regime in Iran, oversaw the worst economy since the depression, gave us gas lines, malaise, and after throwing a hissy fit, boycotted the 1980 Olympics over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.’
I’d love somebody in the next GOP debate to go on a rant about this idiot, and how he’s been punishing ‘We the People’ for firing his INCOMPETENT ASS in 1980.
Jimma is senile and the arteries in his head have hardened.
I'm sure the VP will be torn up about that.
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