MONDALE: "If I Had Done As Cheney Has Done-Carter Would Have Thrown Me Out"

[kpete]

"I think that Cheney has stepped way over the line," Mondale said.

Mondale, who was vice president under Carter, made the comments at a three-day conference about Carter's presidency that opened Friday at the University of Georgia.

Mondale said Cheney and his assistants pressured federal agencies as they prepared information for President Bush.

"I think Cheney's been at the center of cooking up farcical estimates of national risks, weapons of mass destruction and the 9/11 connection to Iraq," he said.

Mondale said that does not serve the president, because he needs facts.

"If I had done as vice president what this vice president has done, Carter would have thrown me out of there," Mondale said. "I don't think he could have tolerated a vice president over there pressuring and pushing other agencies, ordering up different reports than they wanted to send us. I don't think he would have stood for it."

http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/mondale-criticizes-cheneys-actions/n20070119163209990007

[ronnykmarshall]

1. Right on Fritz!

[LynnTheDem]

2. "cooking up farcical estimates of national risks, weapons of mass destruction

and the 9/11 connection to Iraq"...

"cooking up farcical estimates"


Love the sound of FACT any time of day.

[Cha]

3. That's an Excellent way to

put it.

As If..bush could throw out his puppetmeister.

[tblue]

4. Therein's the difference between a Jimmy Carter and a jackass. Also Repugs have different standards

and values. Honesty is not among them.