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October 22, 2005
First Kim Jong-Il, now King George?
The amount of outrage being directed at the Bush administration from the right is getting hard to keep up with:
Powell Aide Wilkerson Says Bush Policymaking `Courts Disaster'The Bush administration has ``courted disaster'' in Iraq, Iran and North Korea and is so inept that it could not cope with a major domestic disaster, according to Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Wilkerson said Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld formed a ``cabal'' to formulate U.S. foreign policy in isolation from other government institutions, seriously weakening the nation's decision-making process.
``If something comes along that is truly serious, truly serious, something like a nuclear weapon going off in a major American city, or something like a major pandemic, you are going to see the ineptitude of this government in a way that will take you back to the Declaration of Independence,'' Wilkerson said in a speech Oct. 19 to the New America Foundation, a Washington research institute.
The Bush administration has ``flummoxed'' the interagency decision-making process, Wilkerson said. He chastised Congress for abandoning oversight and warned that, without more accountability, ``it's going to get even more dangerous than it already is.''
Wilkerson, 60, left office in January along with Powell at the end of President George W. Bush's first term. A retired colonel, he is a former director of the U.S. Marine Corps War College and a former associate director of policy planning at the State Department. He also served under Powell when Powell was chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs under President George H.W. Bush.
You can watch the speech, or read the full transcript, here.
Posted by Mike at October 22, 2005 04:01 AM
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