posted on Oct, 20 2005 @ 05:04 PM
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, the chief of staff for former Secretary of State Colin Powell, blasted the Bush white house for allowing rogue elements
within the administration to manipulate foreign policy. He believes this manipulation is responsible for the negative consequences being suffered in
our foreign policy today. He spoke highly of George H.W. Bush, but not the current president.
news.ft.com
Vice-President Dick Cheney and a handful of others had hijacked the government's foreign policy apparatus, deciding in secret to carry out policies
that had left the US weaker and more isolated in the world, the top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed on Wednesday.
In a scathing attack on the record of President George W. Bush, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Mr Powell until last January, said:
“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.
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What Wilkerson says has been pretty obvious to anyone unbiasly observing the things that have gone on during the course of this administration. We
are paying for this cowboy mentality today and will continue paying dearly far into the future. Wilkerson can hardly be called a liberal, though I
have no doubt that some will try to characterize him that way.
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