Ex-Powell aide: Bush 'too aloof' - Democratic Underground

DallasTim

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Tue Nov-29-05 01:51 PM
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Ex-Powell aide: Bush 'too aloof'

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff says President Bush was "too aloof, too distant from the details" of post-war planning, allowing underlings to exploit Bush's detachment and make bad decisions.

Wilkerson blamed Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and like-minded aides. Wilkerson said that 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."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/29/wilkerson.interview.ap/index.html

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Demeter

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Tue Nov-29-05 01:54 PM
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1. That's Not Aloof--It's Batshit Crazy

Let's leave the euphemisms home with the kiddies, shall we? It's time Colin started trying to tell the truth, just to prove he isn't a pod person created by the NeoCon/GOP infestation.

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maddezmom

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Tue Nov-29-05 01:56 PM
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2. duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1952661

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