October 21, 2005

  • 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.
    -- Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, quoted by the Financial Times. A complete transcript is available.


    Wow...this is kinda scary...even though many of us suspected as much for quite a while. 


    UPDATE:


    I've recently been given reference to this quote by Rush Limbaugh, the full context of it can be found in Media Matter's post here.


    He said, "Since I get so few qualified Liberals calling this program, I explain to my audience what Liberals mean when they say things.  I do more than add context. I know you Liberals like every square centimeter of my naked body, and I'm able to explain what Liberals mean when they say things as well as they are."


    I've listened to some of what he attributes to 'liberals' and he either has no idea what 'liberals' believe or he is just misrepresenting it on purpose.  Either way, and I'm sorry that I'm being rude, but his statement is probably true anyway - he'd be hard pressed to identify his own feet, let alone every square centimeter of his body.


    UPDATE2: 


    Well, Tom Delay has been indited and booked.  Unfortunately for us, this picture of his mug shot won't do very well for political ads, so I guess we'll just have to describe all of his unethical deeds.  Of course, I don't know of any other criminal that has a full-color mug-shot without the booking number on it.


    UPDATE again:


    I knew it wouldn't be long before fake mugshots came out...