Bush is not a king
According to Col. Larry Wilkerson, an aide of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, the ideas for how to handle foreign prisoners were generated in Cheney's office and by Rumsfeld's officials who believed that “the president of the United States is all-powerful, that as commander in chief, the president of the United States can do anything he damn well pleases,” Saying also that not only was Bush “too aloof, too distant from the details,” .... “underlings exploited Bush's detachment and made poor decisions.”
On Cheney, he stated, “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."
While currently a little distant from his former boss, “what Powell seems to be saying to me now is the president failed to discipline the process the way he should have and that the president is ultimately responsible for this whole mess.”
Wilkerson says he “has almost, but not quite, concluded that Cheney and others in the administration deliberately ignored evidence of bad intelligence and looked only at what supported their case for war.”
What a coincidence – that is also what most of America believes.
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According to Col. Larry Wilkerson, an aide of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, the ideas for how to handle foreign prisoners were generated in Cheney's office and by Rumsfeld's officials who believed that “the president of the United States is all-powerful, that as commander in chief, the president of the United States can do anything he damn well pleases,” Saying also that not only was Bush “too aloof, too distant from the details,” .... “underlings exploited Bush's detachment and made poor decisions.”
On Cheney, he stated, “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."
While currently a little distant from his former boss, “what Powell seems to be saying to me now is the president failed to discipline the process the way he should have and that the president is ultimately responsible for this whole mess.”
Wilkerson says he “has almost, but not quite, concluded that Cheney and others in the administration deliberately ignored evidence of bad intelligence and looked only at what supported their case for war.”
What a coincidence – that is also what most of America believes.
Posted on The Human Stain
posted by James Roberts at
11/28/2005 08:44:00 PM
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