Posted on 11/29/2005 8:14:34 AM PST by LouAvul
LONDON, England (AP) -- A former senior U.S. State Department official says he has come to doubt whether President George W. Bush's administration presented an honest intelligence case for the war in Iraq.
"You begin to speculate, you begin to wonder -- Was this intelligence spun? Was it politicized? Was it cherry-picked? Did in fact the American people get fooled? I'm beginning to have my concerns," Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff for former Secretary of State Colin Powell, said in an interview broadcast Tuesday.
In the interview with the British Broadcasting Corp., Wilkerson repeated his criticisms of Vice President Dick Cheney, holding him responsible for abuses of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq and for shortcomings in post-war planning in Iraq.
Asked whether Cheney was guilty of war crime, Wilkerson said: "Well that's an interesting question. It is certainly a domestic crime to advocate terror, and I would suspect that it is, for whatever it's worth, an international crime as well."
He did not explain in the interview why he believed Cheney advocated terror, though he also said that Cheney was "very publicly lobbying the Congress of the United States advocating the use of terror."
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I agree and it ain't over yet. I'm hoping some caches are found and revealed come October of next year. As to this guy, well, he wants his 15 minutes too and the presstitutes will give it to him. POS...
What is a poor not-ready-retire former toady of Colin Powell to do, when Colin cannot give him another bureaucracy job?
Why, try to win friends with the Dims of course!
"The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow."
Those words,my friend,are from William Jefferson Blythe Clinton.They were uttered in 1998.
This is what happens to decent people who get too involved with DC and the Media culture there. People try to get "with" the group. Its human nature really. You hang around those folks, and you will start to think like them. This guy is only now starting to rethink things... its GroupThink taking over. It happens to all of us I believe. Good thing our "Think" here on FR is as good as any on the planet, if not better.
Except for the fact that these questions have been asked and answered dozens of times, this could be news!
I'm sick and tired of these puss warts coming out of the woodwork to second guess something many governments and public officials had come to believe and pronounce publicly.
This amounts to nothing more than Historical Rewrite Attempt 4982 and counting...
Enough already.
You forgot to add "Barf Alert"
Also, am I the only one that read Stephen Hayes in the Weekly Standard. Talk about Cherry picking. The loonie left has to tip toe around a large pile of evidence that Sadam did have WND, and was actively planning a full scale resumption of his WMD program as soon as the sanctions collapsed.
The weasels are all coming out of the woodwork. Do they smell cushy positions in a future hillary administration? We'd better make sure they don't get them.
Another Ramsey Clark in the making?
Exactly! And .. with the help of France, Germany and Russia, Saddam got all the help he needed in removing it.
Gee, when Clinton bombed the aspirin factory, was he careful to mention all the existing intelligence which indicated that it might NOT have been a weapons facility? Of course not!
The job of the executive branch is to assess all the intelligence, pick the intelligence report which matches what else you know, and GO with it.
Surely this isn't the same guy who on national tv played the video and sound of frantic Iraqi officers after being ordered to destroy WMD sites as well as that long line of military trucks on their way to Syria? And to think he was once offered the presidency...
I think you mean Ramsey Yousef Clark. I think he's engaged to Cindy Sheehan, but that's just because Saddam wouldn't have her.
Ok, sorry, it isn't Powell but his aide.
It'll be found. Who are these lily livered a$$holes who are getting press anyway?
This reminds me of the HBO film "A Path to War"
In one scene, LBJ's sniveling staffer tenders his resignation. LBJ tells him "You little &%$#*! you wrote the words that got us into this!" He then threatens to draft the quitter and send him to Viet Nam. I thought it was a great scene.
I wonder if Bush could sign an executive order to mobilize diplomatic specialists to negotiate with the locals in Fallujah? They seem to be vry casually be walking away from their responsibilities.
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