Jimmy Carter Blasts Dick Cheney
WASHINGTON- Former U.S. 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 World News America 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.
Carter did have kind words in the BBC interview for U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
“I’m filled with admiration for Condoleezza Rice in standing up to (Cheney) which she did even when she was in the White House under President George W. Bush,” Carter said, referring to Rice’s former role as White House national security adviser.
“Now secretary of state, her influence is obviously greater than it was then and I hope she prevails,” Carter added.
(Reuters)
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Oh, GOOD GRIEF!! Would Jimmy Carter just fuck off and die already?
What is it with failed dem presidents? Are they are so insanely narcissistic that they will do and say ANYTHING to get a headline? I can’t remember a republican president, in my lifetime, ever being heard from again (with the exception of Bush I & the relief effort crap with Clinton) after they left office. And you sure as hell never heard of one bashing ANYONE. Great googly moogly - I just want to pull my hair out!!!!
October 10th, 2007 at 9:10 pmThen again, who would understand “disaster” better than Jimmy Carter? 21.5% interest rate, price controls, slashing the defense budget, Iranian hostage crisis.
Yep, he’s the Master of Disaster alright.
October 10th, 2007 at 9:16 pmIsn’t is tradition that a past president, no matter how bad, does not criticize out loud a sitting president? Can’t we send him to Iran permanently?
October 10th, 2007 at 9:21 pmThis is the grinning goofball that tried to fend off a rabbit “attack” with a rowboat oar. He was also, along with the Elitist TriLateral Commission (of which he and a bunch of his administration were all members), responsible for pushing out the Shah of Iran (an ally) and replacing him with the terrorist Khomeini with the stupid idea then being that the US would encircle the Soviet Union with a ring of dangerous Islamist terrorist regimes as a way of keeping it busy. There was so much evil done during his administration that most Americans know nothing about to this day. Many books have been written about it. Everyone should understand Jimmy “the grin” Carter better than they do.
October 10th, 2007 at 9:38 pmFitting that the senile “father of modern jihad” is critizing this adminstration’s efforts to fix his disasterous policy decisions.
October 10th, 2007 at 9:55 pmAnd to make matters worse, I think we pay for a Secret Service detail for him because, thank God, he’s a former President. Anybody know for sure if he still gets US protection?
October 11th, 2007 at 12:21 amYep, until that fortunate date he chokes on a peanut, he still gets the secret service protection, and don’t forget to add to his long list of feats that he destroyed the intelligence program with his “we can only employ alter boys in the CIA” crap. What a maroon!
October 11th, 2007 at 5:29 am“Mr. Carter, Vice President Cheney is on the phone. He is inviting you on a hunting trip for tomorrow …”
October 11th, 2007 at 6:46 amI thought they only got Secret Services protection for 10 years after. At any rate, he’s another militant lefie to whom the press likes to give a platform. Yesterday, I was in a room for 8 hours with a West LA liberal (in a negotiation) and we discussed probably every political issue under the sun, and guess what: we may not have agreed on everything, but at least he was educated and we were able to agree on some stuff, and have an intelligent conversation. These are the kind liberals with whom one can have a dialogue. Instead, the militant radical lefties have been given a huge platform by the media. Oh, and Mr. Carter: you started this whole Islamofacist movement in 1979 when you hung our ally the Shah out to dry and allowed Khomeni to go from Paris back to Tehran. Khomeni should have never made it there.
October 11th, 2007 at 10:01 amCarter was Philip Rothschild’ choice as “Adam”, the man of peace, back in the 70’s
Seems Carter is still there today waiting to fulfill his illuminati role….move on Peanut, they got a new boy already.
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April 20th, 2008 at 5:41 pm