banking services chronicle e magazine

 banking services chronicle e magazine

banking services chronicle e magazine Published this article page no   DETROIT  The last semblance of broad public support for President George W. Bush is the diminishing number of Americans who continue to believe his administration does a good job with national security. Bush makes me feel safer they foolishly proclaim. Those who advance just slightly beyond their visceral emotions and think at all are arriving at an inescapable conclusion George W. Bushs policies fail to protect us and his approach to national security is a disaster. The testimony and evidence for that conclusion comes not from the Democrats the left pacifists or antiimperialists but rather from seasoned military people and national security experts who served in the administrations of Bush the Elder and his impetuous reckless son Bush the Lesser. We already know from former White House terrorism czar Richard Clarke and former treasury secretary and National Security Council member Paul ONeill how Bush wanted to use the Sept. 11 attacks as the pretext to invade Iraq. We know from them that Bush was fixated on Saddam Hussein and would willfully meld him into the terrorists who struck the United States although not a scrap of evidence supported that great lie for the ages. Up until now Clarke and ONeill were the only insiders with the honesty and courage to publicly reveal how Bush the puppet and his radical neocon stringpullers would use Sept. 11 to carry out their longestablished goal of attacking Iraq. They wanted to control the oil and have a strategic military presence in the Middle East. In their most pixilated moments they actually claimed the aggression would help plant democracy in the region and make Israel more secure. Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired U.S. Army colonel and Vietnam veteran who once served as deputy director of the U.S. Marine Corps War College. After his military service he went to work for Colin Powell serving as his chief of staff from August 2001 through the end of Bushs first term. Wilkerson had a frontrow seat and what he saw was narrowness and secrecy in the decisionmaking process controlled by Vice President Dick Cheney Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and their operatives. They successfully cut off others from whatever they were plotting. The deliberate decision to keep others in the dark courted disaster Wilkerson said. He made his remarks in a speech last week before the New American Foundation a think tank. Wilkerson who worked for Powell for 16 years at the Pentagon and State Department said his former boss was not happy with his decision to speak out and tell the American people about his profound concerns. banking services chronicle e magazine