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Powell Top Aide Gives Impeacement Advice

Written by: Mark Manley on May 16, 2007 12:00 PM EDT

Linked to groups: T-Town DFA

       Colin Powell's former top aide, Lawrence Wilkerson is talking impeacement. In an interview  yesterday he suggested that pro impeachment people should look at the torture of detainees and how we got into this war, particularly the cooking of the books on intelligence running up to the war.

http://impeachforpeace.org/impeach_bush_blog/?cat=4

   To see keen insight to why we are in Iraq see the PBS interview of Wilkerson in their excellent FRONTLINE  The Dark Side series. Especially telling is...

[What do you mean "did far too well"? What is the balance of power like today?]

Today, that's gone well beyond their wildest expectations. The Defense Department gets $400 billion-plus [a year]; the State Department gets $30 billion. There is an antipathy on the part of the rest of the government, particularly the Defense Department, towards the State Department because the State Department has no domestic constituency; it has a constituency of foreigners. ... There's a natural antipathy between the State Department and the Defense Department. ...

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/interviews/wilkerson.html 

                     Mark Manley
 

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By on May 16, 2007 1:17 PM EDT

Mark and I are on the same side on this issue, but it highlights the urgent need for progressives in Tulsa to work better with each other.

The direct concern is that Mark and the leadership of T-Town DFA refuses to communicate and refuses to work with several other progressive organizations in Tulsa, such as recently when everyone else [DFA Tulsa, Tulsa Peace Fellowship, Peace House Tulsa, Democratic Party Tulsa MeetUp, MoveOn] was working together to rally opposition to a Tulsa visit by Cheney and US Senator Inholf.  I hope that he and they will find that we are much stronger when we talk and work together.

Mike W, DFA Tulsa, dfalink.com/tulsa

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