Wilkerson (former aide to Powell) still unloading on the Bush cabal

[ProSense]

Former aide to Powell opens fire on US administration
2 hours, 37 minutes ago


WASHINGTON (AFP) - The former top aide to then-secretary of state Colin Powell has reportedly emerged as an increasingly high-profile and vocal critic of US administration policy at home and abroad.

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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, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made," the paper recalled Wilkerson saying in a speech at the New America Foundation in October.

"And you've got a president who is not versed in international relations and not too much interested in them either," he added, according to the Times.

The report said Wilkerson has been "assailing the president as amateurish, especially compared to the first President Bush, and describing the administration as secretive, inept and courting disaster at home and abroad. Nor has he spared his former boss, who he says was overly preoccupied with 'damage control' for policies set by others."

A retired Army colonel, Wilkerson "has also attacked the Bush administration for allegedly condoning torture and setting lax policies on treatment of detainees that led, he charges, to the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the black eye they gave to the United States Army," the report said.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051224/pl_afp/usiraqcritic_051224173411

[WestHoustonDem]

1. DU the ratings on this one! n/t

[spindrifter]

2. Go for it, Wilkerson...

It's not too late to tell it like it is.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. k & n

This guy is the one we should quote when repukes say that the whole snoopgate and everything else is nothing.