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"WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff says President Bush was "too aloof, too distant from the details" of post-war planning, allowing underlings to exploit Bush's detachment and make bad decisions. In an Associated Press interview Monday, former Powell chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson also said that wrongheaded ideas for the handling of foreign detainees after Sept. 11 arose from a coterie of White House and Pentagon aides who argued that "the president of the United States is all-powerful," and that the Geneva Conventions were irrelevant. Wilkerson blamed Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and like-minded aides. Wilkerson said that Cheney must have sincerely believed that Iraq could be a spawning ground for new terror assaults, because "otherwise I have to declare him a moron, an idiot or a nefarious bastard."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/29/wilkerson.interview.ap/index.html#101

Ahahahaha this guy kicks ass.

11/29/2005 8:59:37 PM

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"nefarious bastard"

I like that

11/29/2005 9:01:20 PM

Lawrence Wilkerson, bringing us great quotes like these...

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"What I saw was a cabal between the Vice President of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the Secretary of Defense and on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made. "

[quote]Under Secretary of Defense Douglas, whom most of you probably know Tommy Frank said was stupidest blankety blank man in the world. He was. Let me testify to that. He was. Seldom in my life have I met a dumber man. And yet, and yet, after the Secretary of State agrees to a $400 billion department, rather than a $30 billion department, having control, at least in the immediate post-war period in Iraq, this man is put in charge. Not only is he put in charge, he is given carte blanche to tell the State Department to go screw themselves in a closet somewhere. That’s not making excuses for the State Department.
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11/30/2005 8:26:18 AM

Too bad Powell doesn't have the balls to speak up.

11/30/2005 8:56:35 AM

agreed. Powell was too nice while he worked with them, and he's still too nice. Those assholes he worked with ruined any chance of him, say, having a good chance at being President (if he so desired). I'd like to see him step out and call out all the bullshit he saw when he was in the whitehouse.

11/30/2005 9:02:12 AM

dick cheney is hellspawn

11/30/2005 10:26:47 AM

dick cheney is a misunderstood genius

history will sing his praises foreverr







seriously though
has there ever been vice president that was worse for the country than this fucker?
i'd like it if the Veep went back to cooling his heels for 8 years until it was his turn to run...

no wonder dick doesn't want to be president, he's had the same amount of power as the #2 guy

11/30/2005 11:12:31 AM