According to Nick Juliano Lawrence Wilkerson, who was Colin Powell's Chief of Staff during Powell'tenure as Secretary of State, responded to a caller's question during a Thursday appearance on the public radio program On Point by saying that "Bill Clinton's peccadilloes ... pale in significance" when compared to the "high crimes and misdemeanors" of Bush and Cheney. Asked to identify Bush and Cheney's high crimes and misdemeanors Wilkerson said.
"I think we went into this war for specious reasons," he said. "I think we went into this war not too much unlike the way we went into the Spanish American War with the Hearst press essentially goading the American people and the leadership into war. That was a different time in a different culture, in a different America. We're in a very different place today and I think we essentially got goaded into the war through some of the same means."Juliano notes that this story was first reported by David Swanson at AfterDowningstreet.Org's website
