More from Lawrence Wilkerson

In the LATimes, the chief of staff for ex-Secretary of State Colin Powell elaborates on his recent speech excoriating what he calls the Cheney/rumsfeld cabal.

IN PRESIDENT BUSH'S first term, some of the most important decisions about U.S. national security — including vital decisions about postwar Iraq — were made by a secretive, little-known cabal. It was made up of a very small group of people led by Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

One man's cabal is our junta.