(SNN Washington) Yesterday, the senior aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed that the foreign policy of the United States had been hijacked by Vice President Dick Cheney and a small number of coconspirators, and that this cabal had decided to carry out in secret policies that have left the United States weaker and more isolated in the world.

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Mr. Powell, said “What I saw was a cabal between the vice-president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made.

Col. Wilkerson pointed out a few decisions that the administration had made with foreign policy. As examples of these bad decisions, Wilkerson offered the refusal to cooperate with North Korea, the refusal to back Europe’s efforts with Iran, the silent complacent attitude towards torture, toadyism at top levels, and overstretching the military. While these points have been made by anyone smarter than a slow ten year old, this is significant because of Wilkerson’s position.

President Bush was “not versed in international relations"

In addition Col. Wilkerson said the current President Bush was “not versed in international relations and not too much interested in them either” and not up to the level of his father. “There's a vast difference between the way George H.W. Bush dealt with major challenges, some of the greatest challenges at the end of the 20th century, and effected positive results in my view, and the way we conduct diplomacy today.”

It is estimated that later today, a conservative web site will accuse Col. Wilkerson of being Michaels Moore’s lover and helping John Kerry hold illegal meeting with the Vietcong. This afternoon, on Fox News, they will discuss how sad it is that a gay nazi can get away with criticizing the president. By tomorrow, someone on CNN will compare the retired Colonel to Cindy Sheehan.