Thursday, October 20, 2005

Cheney's "Cabal" Hijacked Foreign Policy

On Hardball Tues night, Pat Buchanan ranted about a conspiracy theory that the forged Niger uranium documents were merely part of a broad conspiracy to get the US into war. Read the transcript, but when a hardcore conservative like Buchanan puts out a theory like that, ya know we Dems & libs aren't wearing tin foil hats. And as if we needed more evidence, there is this: FinancialTimes: In a scathing attack on the record of Pres Bush, Col Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Colin Powell until last Jan, said: “What I saw was a cabal between the VP Richard Cheney, and the Secrty of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made... Wilkerson said such secret decision-making was responsible for mistakes such as the long refusal to engage with N Korea or to back European efforts on Iran. "Cheney and a handful of others had hijacked the govt's foreign policy apparatus, deciding in secret to carry out policies that had left the US weaker and more isolated in the world... Now it is paying the consequences of making those decisions in secret, but far more telling to me is America is paying the consequences." Wilkerson said his decision to go public had led to a personal falling out w/ Powell, whom he served for 16 yrs at the Pentagon and the State Dept: "He's not happy w/ my speaking out because, and I admire this in him, he is the world's most loyal soldier." Guess we can expect Wilkerson to suddenly be discredited when he is "found" in a hotel bed w/ a dead Camp Fire Girl and a raped Cub Scout, huh?
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