Originally published February 7 2006
Former Colin Powell aide criticizes U.S. administration
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Lawrence Wilkerson has said the president is not versed in international relations and is not very interested in them, either. Wilkerson has also denounced the Bush administration for allegedly condoning torture and setting lax policies.
The former top aide to then-secretary of state Colin Powell has emerged as an increasingly high-profile and vocal critic of US administration policy at home and abroad, The New York Times reported Saturday.
had resulted from decisions on prisoner treatment and intelligence set shortly after September 11, 2001," the daily reported.
"What I saw was a cabal between the vice president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made," the paper recalled Wilkerson saying in a speech at the New America Foundation in October.
The report said Wilkerson has been "assailing the president as amateurish, especially compared to the first President Bush, and describing the administration as secretive, inept and courting disaster at home and abroad.
A retired Army colonel, Wilkerson "has also attacked the Bush administration for allegedly condoning torture and setting lax policies on treatment of detainees that led, he charges, to the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the black eye they gave to the United States Army," the report said.
Though Powell has kept mum about his former aide, "he has let it be known through friends that he objects to the charges, especially the suggestion that he was overly loyal to President Bush," the report said.
"I've lost a friend of 16 years.
Wilkerson argues that Powell won key policy battles in making sure that the issue of Iraq was taken to the United Nations and in battling Rumsfeld and Cheney for the cause of improving relations with Europe, encouraging negotiations with North Korea and Iraq, and avoiding confrontations with Russia and China, the report said.
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