Powell's Chief of Staff Attacks Bush

In my previous post, as an example of George Bush being our worst president ever, I cited Colin Powell's Chief of Staff, Colonel Larry Wilkerson's comments from a speech the prior day that was reported by The Washington Post. Today, Colonel Wilkerson reaffirmed his comments and delved into greater detail about his utter disgust with the Bush administration in an Op-Ed column he wrote for The L.A. Times.

He describes a secret “cabal” that was set up by Cheney and Rumsfeld to hijack U.S. foreign policy. He depicts an inexperienced president who needed Colin Powell to hold his hand through crisis situations, and who was sometimes left out of the loop of the decisions made by this cabal, and he describes a weak Condoleezza Rice that got steamrolled by Cheney and Rumsfeld.

It’s time for anyone who voted for Bush to bow their heads in shame and own up to the calamity they helped create due to their blind loyalty to a political party as opposed to their country and their own common sense. In November of 2000 it seemed acceptable to them to vote into office a dimwit who everyone knew was not that bright and not that experienced. So many of them bought into the myth that it doesn’t really matter who is the president. And, what is the saddest part is that most everyone knew that on some level he’d be a puppet president. I’ll never forget how many times I heard the justification for voting for Bush, “Well, he’ll have advisors to tell him what to do – his dad and Cheney and people like that.” Advisors? People like that? This means they were perfectly willing to elect an anonymous regime to run the country. That is the definition of blind loyalty.

And, this is exactly what Democrats, and some Independents, feared when we took a look at Bush in 2000. We didn’t know 9-11 was going to happen and things would turn out this bad; but it just seemed illogical and it was a very unsettling feeling to turn over the keys to the most powerful country in the history of the world to an inexperienced, disinterested, simple man just because his name sounded familiar. And, make no mistake about it that is why he got elected. No one would have supported him had his name been George Tree or George Grass.

However, as luck would have it, his name was George Bush, and that coupled with Clinton’s blowjob was enough for too many people. Today we live with the consequences. And, as Colonel Wilkerson describes for us, they have come true the worst fears of those of us who opposed Bush from the beginning. Now that simple, disinterested man sits in The Oval Office while a group of people – who could never/would never have been elected president on their own – subvert our democracy and lead us into danger.