From zmag blog
'Cabal' is such a silly word. Dripping with the "Neocon" con. And all of that.---You don't suppose, do you, that Dick Cheney - Donald Rumsfeld et al. invented American wars of aggression? Detention without habeas corpus? Torture and so-called "rendition"? The burning of the bodies of foreign nationals to frighten the survivors? And, in short, the Imperial Presidency?Nevertheless. After the former Chief of Staff (Lawrence Wilkerson) of the former Secretary of State (Colin Powell) called the Vice President and Defense Secretary of the current regime the "Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal" during a talk in Washington this past Wednesday (Oct. 19), Agence France Presse, Associated Press, and United Press International (haven’t checked Reuters) were quick to pick it up and circulate it across their wires, UPI also circulating a 1700-word excerpt from it, under Wilkerson’s byline. (All reproduced at bottom.)
