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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 08:49 AM
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"a moron, an idiot or a nefarious bastard.”
Edited on Tue Nov-29-05 08:49 AM by Jacobin
WASHINGTON - A top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday that wrongheaded ideas for the handling of foreign detainees arose from White House and Pentagon officials who argued that “the president of the United States is all-powerful” and the Geneva Conventions irrelevant.

In an Associated Press interview, former Powell chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson also said President Bush was “too aloof, too distant from the details” of postwar planning. Underlings exploited Bush’s detachment and made poor decisions, Wilkerson said.

Wilkerson blamed Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and like-minded aides. He said Cheney must have sincerely believed that Iraq could be a spawning ground for new terror assaults, because “otherwise I have to declare him a moron, an idiot or a nefarious bastard.”



And the correct answer is................"NEFARIOUS BASTARD"


:rofl:

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10246394/
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bowens43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 08:53 AM
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1. Why chose?
From what I've seen and heard , Cheney is a moron, an idiot AND a nefarious bastard.
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 08:55 AM
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2. Yep, that's what I wrote when this was posted earlier.
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swimmernsecretsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 08:56 AM
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3. D: All of the above.
It's what I would go with.
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Punkingal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-29-05 09:05 AM
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4. I would add....
"unbelievably arrogant prick" to the list.
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