[RJL]

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.

You mean to tell me that executives made decisions without a vote from the working bureaucrats!

Why am I not astounded!

[bjc]

And Colonels make decisions without consulting privates!! Who would have guessed?