[clee1]

that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made.

The "bureaucracy" is there to implement the decisions of the National Command Authority; not the other way around.

Quite often, the "bureaucracy" tends to ignore that fact.

[Wuli]

"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."

Those poor, poor bureaucrats. For the first time in over eight years they found out they were not the elected government, they just worked for it.

A note on speeches at think tanks: Think tanks are the welfare agencies for out of work bureacrats and intellectuals.