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"What I saw was a cabal between the vice president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld.. . [W]e have courted disaster in Iraq, in North Korea, in Iran, and generally with regard to domestic crises like Katrina." [If there is a nuclear terrorist attack or a major pandemic],"you are going to see the ineptitude of this government in a way that'll take you back to the Declaration of Independence."

-- Col. Larry Wilkerson, chief of staff in the Bush State Department until early this year. More.