Gorbachev Calls Cheney and Rumsfeld Shallow Hawks

"Americans have a severe disease — worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex. You want an American style-democracy here. That will not work."

And about Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, ""They are just hawks protecting the interests of the military — shallow people."

--- Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. Gorbachev won the Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1990 for the loosening of Soviet Communism over Eastern Europe that effectively ended the Cold War. On July 12, 2006 to ABC News.

Watch here for the entire ABC News interview with Mikhail Gorbachev, on this eve of the G8 summit to be held in St. Petersburg, Russia on July 15 to 17, 2006.

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G8 for Dummies by Keith Porter, About.com's Guide to Globalization
Official Site of the 2006 G8 Summit