Carter calls VP Cheney a “disaster” and a “militant” on BBC

October 10, 2007 · Filed Under Politics, White House

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.

I said it earlier this week and I’ll say it again. I think I’d prefer to hear opinions from someone besides the worst President in U.S. history. Carter spends so damn much time cozying up to dictators around the world he’s even stealing their rhetoric.

-Chris Jones