Meet Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff. He's critical of "wrongheaded ideas for the handling of foreign detainees" that he says came from the White House and the Pentagon (read: Cheney and Rumsfeld). He sez that Bush was disengaged from postwar planning, and that "Underlings exploited Bush's detachment and made poor decisions."
I'm thinking that Larry is going to be very popular with journalists and at certain cocktail parties in the very near future. I mean, how could he not be:
Wilkerson blamed Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and like-minded aides. He said Cheney must have sincerely believed that Iraq could be a spawning ground for new terror assaults, because "otherwise I have to declare him a moron, an idiot or a nefarious bastard."
Mark my words, hypothetical readers. You'll be seeing a lot of Wilkerson in the coming days.
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This is just absolutely stupid. And the European Union is acting stupider. (Is that even a word?) I'm not surprised the US may be operating clandestine prisons or interrogation programs.
The EU is *so* concerned about human rights and whatnot. Unless they're homeless dying in France. Or artistes in the Netherlands.
As unpolitic as this may sound: Europe and the rest should just shut up and mind their own business. Let our arrangements with individual states stand: it's none of the EU's business. They're just acting up out of jealousy and spite.
Okay, I'm done for now. :)
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