Lawrence Wilkerson, who was chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, said on the public radio program On Point Thursday that "Bill Clinton's peccadilloes ... pale in significance" when compared to the "high crimes and misdemeanors" of Bush and Cheney.
Clinton may well have been doing other things that truly were impeachable offenses, but diddling Monica what's-her-name - or even lying about it - wasn't one of them. If Bush and Cheney, on the other hand, don't qualify, then I don't know who does.
You may remember Mr. Wilkerson from his previous comments on the Bush administration. For instance...
He said the vice president and the secretary of defense created a "Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal" that hijacked U.S. foreign policy. He said of former defense undersecretary Douglas Feith: "Seldom in my life have I met a dumber man." Addressing scholars, journalists and others at the New America Foundation, Wilkerson accused Bush of "cowboyism" and said he had viewed Condoleezza Rice as "extremely weak." Of American diplomacy, he fretted, "I'm not sure the State Department even exists anymore."[...]
"If you're unilaterally declaring Kyoto dead, if you're declaring the Geneva Conventions not operative, if you're doing a host of things that the world doesn't agree with you on and you're doing it blatantly and in their face, without grace, then you've got to pay the consequences."
As an aside, Wilkerson isn't alone in his opinion of Doug Feith (Office of Special Plans, remember?). General Tommy Franks described him as "the dumbest fucking guy on the planet".
Here's a Frontline interview with Wilkerson from December 2005 for you to read should you have an interest.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
P.S. Speaking of Wilkerson and the dumbest things on the planet, he recently claimed that the US policy toward Cuba is just that - "the dumbest policy on the face of the earth" - and, along with Arizona Republican Representative Jeff Flake, called for changes.
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