Let loose, Powell's right-hand man rages against "Cheney-Rumsfeld" cabal

[BurtWorm]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/19/AR2005101902246_pf.html

Colonel Finally Saw Whites of Their Eyes

By Dana Milbank
Thursday, October 20, 2005; A04



As Colin Powell's right-hand man at the State Department, Larry Wilkerson seethed quietly during President Bush's first term. Yesterday, Colonel Wilkerson made up for lost time.

He said the vice president and the secretary of defense created a "Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal" that hijacked U.S. foreign policy. He said of former defense undersecretary Douglas Feith: "Seldom in my life have I met a dumber man." Addressing scholars, journalists and others at the New America Foundation, Wilkerson accused Bush of "cowboyism" and said he had viewed Condoleezza Rice as "extremely weak." Of American diplomacy, he fretted, "I'm not sure the State Department even exists anymore."

And how about Karen Hughes's efforts to boost the country's image abroad? "It's hard to sell ," Wilkerson said, quoting an Egyptian friend.

The man who was chief of staff at the State Department until early this year continued: "If you're unilaterally declaring Kyoto dead, if you're declaring the Geneva Conventions not operative, if you're doing a host of things that the world doesn't agree with you on and you're doing it blatantly and in their face, without grace, then you've got to pay the consequences."

[Fovea]

1. Thank you, Larry

Wow we could have used your voice 3 years ago.

Yes, a genius would have a hard sell. Hughes has nothing to sell but tired aphorisms, lies, and appeals to love an America that died in 2000.

Now cometh the whirlwind.

[rwork]

2. Can we get Keith O.

to book him for tonights show?

[babylonsister]

3. Let everyone raise their voices in total scorn!

Misery loves company, the more the merrier, etc.
I'm glad to see people are finally 'fessing up.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. On home page and Greatest page with 42 votes, 100 replies

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1863267

[SidDithers]

5. Good article, thanks for posting...nt

Sid

[dbeach]

6. huge story

Many US Mitary and Veterans who work at the Pentagon DO NOT like the chickenhawk policies of the dangerous duo and their unmerry band of war mongers...

IF these officers and DOD emlpoyees begin to come forward about perle,wolfie,rummy...and the PNAC crimes....IF IF?

OMG its all leading to the espionage

CHENY hijacked the govt and with bush blessing of course

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5112294&mesg_id=5112294

[Bonhomme Richard]

7. The difference between Loyalty and Cowardice.

"Powell, he said, "is the world's most loyal soldier." Wilkerson said he admired that, but he took a different view of loyalty: not to the administration, but to the country."

I think the world's most cowardly soldier works just as well. Whenever given the chance to do what superiors wanted and then advance his career that's what he did. Doesn't matter whether it was covering up atrocities like My Lai in vietnam or standing by while a coup took place in 2000.

No surprise here.

[BurtWorm]

8. Well said.

:toast: