President Carter calls Dick Cheney a "disaster"

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In an interview on Wednesday with the BBC World News America service, one time U.S. President Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 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 usually been on the wrong side of the debate on many issues, including a current "internal White House discussion over Syria" in which Cheney is pushing a bellicose approach, Carter said. [ed. note: With Iraq blown up in his face, does he hope to save face by going to war with Syria or Iran?]

"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," the former President told the reporter.

"You know he's been a disaster for our country," Carter said. "He's been overly persuasive on President George Bush and quite often he's prevailed."

In an interview in May, Carter called the Bush administration the "worst in history" in international relations.
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