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White House demotes Carter
White House reaction to former President Carter’s harsh assessment of Vice President Cheney? Not much, other than a demotion.
This today from Press Secretary Dana Perino:
“I haven’t talked to the president about the recent comments by VIce President Carter. Obviously, he’s an American citizen and free to express his views. Personal attacks on the vice president are just something that we’re not going to comment on. And if the former president chooses to engage in that, we’ll let him do that on his own.”
For the record, Carter told the BBC today that Cheney has been a “disaster” for the U.S.
“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 BBC World News America.
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