The Boston Globe writes:
Former Powell aide details debate over interrogations
WASHINGTON -- A top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday that wrongheaded ideas for the handling of foreign detainees arose from White House and Pentagon officials who argued that ''the president of the United States is all-powerful“ and the Geneva Conventions are irrelevant.In an 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, Wilkerson said.
He 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.“
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Cheney's office and Rumsfeld aides argued ''that the president of the United States is all-powerful, that as commander in chief, the president of the United States can do anything he damn well pleases,” Wilkerson said.
If only Wilkerson had said these things, say in 2003, perhaps we would have a corporate bureaucrat in the White House instead of a feeble-minded scion with delusions of messianic glory.
Impeachment? How about a recall vote?
Tags: Impeachment, /torture, /Worst_President
