Lawrence Wilkerson
Lawrence Wilkerson
Lawrence B. "Larry" Wilkersonis a retired United States Army Colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson has criticized many aspects of the Iraq War, including his own preparation of Powell's presentation to the UN...
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This started from the very beginning when David Addington, the vice president's lawyer, was a staunch advocate of allowing the president in his capacity as commander in chief to deviate from the Geneva Conventions,
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When I rationalize for myself not resigning, I did it by saying, 'This is the only sane member of this administration.
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The secretary of defense under cover of the vice president's office,
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I've been there. I've stood on the hot parade ground as a pilot. I've cursed generals.
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(Powell) came through the door ... and he had in his hands a sheaf of papers, and he said, 'This is what I've got to present at the United Nations according to the White House, and you need to look at it,' ... It was anything but an intelligence document. It was, as some people characterized it later, sort of a Chinese menu from which you could pick and choose.
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I wish I had not been involved in it. I look back on it, and I still say it was the lowest point in my life.
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If we leave precipitously, ... we will (have to) mobilize the nation, put 5 million men and women under arms and go back and take the Middle East within a decade,
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My army right now is truly in bad shape. Problems are brewing.
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More important than that, we know that there was a Defense Intelligence Agency dissent on that testimony even before Colin Powell made his presentation, ... We never heard about that.
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It takes firm leadership to preside over the bureaucracy. But it also takes a willingness to listen to dissenting opinions. It requires leaders who can analyze, synthesize, ponder and decide.
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It was clear to me there that there was a visible audit trail from the vice president's office through the secretary of defense down to the commanders in the field.
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What he seems to be saying to me now is the president failed to discipline the process the way he should have and that the president is ultimately responsible for this whole mess.
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I think there has been an agreement formed in the administration ... and the body politic of America - a nuclear armed Iranian leadership is unacceptable.
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Katrina gives us no confidence, ... I am 10 times more worried about what happens to civil liberties after that attack.