Jimmy Carter blasts VP Cheney

This article (see below) reminds me of the fact that I heard Vice President Cheney speak while we were in Washington, D.C. at the Arlington Cemetery. We were simply there for something else and suddenly everyone said, "The Vice President is here! He's going to give a speech!" I looked around and realized people had been waiting in the cold for this. How interesting. I looked up and there he was. I don't remember what he said, but I remember saying to Marti afterward, "I just got to witness pure evil." He just laughed. Apparently I'm not the only one who thought so...

Jimmy Carter calls Cheney a "disaster" for U.S
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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."