A Moron, An Idiot or a Nefarious Bastard
Listening to: Fasten Your Seatbelts - Pendulum
From The Washington
Note on the White House thinking it can dismiss the Geneva Conventions as Irrelevant:
In an Associated Press interview, former Powell chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson
also said President Bush was “too aloof, too distant from the details” of postwar
planning. Underlings exploited Bush’s detachment and made poor decisions, Wilkerson
said.Wilkerson blamed Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
and likeminded 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.”…
Powell raised frequent and loud objections, his former aide said, once yelling
into a telephone at Rumsfeld: “Donald, don’t you understand what you are doing to
our image?”
