From The "Duh" Department...

Another great article that confirms what many of us figured out on our own in 2003, but probably won't convince any Bush/Iraq war supporters to change their minds: Dick Cheney and his inner circle of neocons hijacked U.S. foreign policy to achieve their own military agenda.

‘Cheney cabal hijacked US foreign policy’

Vice-President Dick Cheney and a handful of others had hijacked the government's foreign policy apparatus, deciding in secret to carry out policies that had left the US weaker and more isolated in the world, the top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed on Wednesday.

In a scathing attack on the record of President George W. Bush, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Mr Powell until last January, said: “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.

“Now it is paying the consequences of making those decisions in secret, but far more telling to me is America is paying the consequences.”...

Hey Wilkerson, if you don't love this country, you can just gggiiitttt out!