Iraq Pre-War Intelligence - Lawrence Wilkerson interview

Interview is from October 2005, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Lawrence B. Wilkerson was Chief of Staff at the Department of State from August 2002 to January 2005.
Wilkerson has accused a cabal led by Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld of hijacking U.S. foreign policy by circumventing or ignoring formal decision-making channels. He has also charged that, as national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice was part of the problem by not ensuring that the policy-making process was open to all relevant participants. --Jim Lobe

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• Lehrer
• Iraq
• Pre-War
• Intelligence
• Lawrence
• Wilkerson
• Bush
• Cheney
• Rumsfeld
• cabal

[usus53]

I'm pleased to see an enlightened audience at this site. Other sites are being diffused and spammed by neocon propagandists, factless & beligerant, profane & irrational.

This is so refreshing. Truth untainted.

[mybigbearron]

Nearly a trillion $ spent on what? Where, o' where else could all that $ have gone?  Katrina? Health Care? Schools? Libraries? Education? Where?

[390bullitt1968]

This is pathetic - why did he keep quiet. His loyalty to a MAN? No excuse for not stepping down.

[AchillesShield]

We get this program in Australia. I should start watching it more often!

[Cabronosidad]

Q. How do you know when Rumsfeld is lying?

A. His lips move.

[Tsnore]

As Wilkerson implies, GW Bush was not a wise leader and hence he allowed the decision-making process to be driven by a very small group of DC insiders like Cheney, Feith, and Wolfowitz. The result is Wilkerson's "ineptiude of the first order." And think about the death and destruction and cost of this mismanagement in 2002 to 2006.

[walkermydawg]

well reasoned comment. I am sure that you have noticed that these neocons, in addition to factless responses, resort to juvenile name calling.

[wwwPNACATTACKcom]

He is a nazi fascist terrorist

[wwwPNACATTACKcom]

Hitler and his friend did it 27th of February 1933 same thing.

[HatTricksInc]

And the picture painted is that Eisenhower was right. Just check out the documentary Why We Fight and you'll see a CIA intelligence personal mention a fax of an outline of fudged intel arguing that Sadam was an imminant threat, and saw it for the nonsense it was.

There was some connection to a conservative "Think TanK" though I can't remember what that was about. It's been a while sense I saw it.