Lawrence Wilkerson: Neocons tried to push Taiwan to declare 'Independence'
(ie Rumsfeld tried to start a nuclear war between the US & China)

Neo-conservatives in the Bush administration -- led by former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld -- frequently dispatched representatives to Taiwan to encourage President Chen Shui-bian's administration to move toward a declaration of independence, the latest US edition of Esquire magazine quoted a former official at the US State Department as saying.

Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to former secretary of state Colin Powell, was quoted in the Esquire article in the issue published on Friday.

Wilkerson said that the actions had the potential to generate a conflict -- possibly nuclear -- between the US and China.

He said that White House officials promoting independence were the same as those who engineered the war on Iraq, including Rumsfeld, former deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz and former UN ambassador John Bolton, as well as former American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) head Therese Shaheen.

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These actions forced then secretary of state Colin Powell to send State Department officials to tell Chen that the White House's "one China" policy remained unchanged, Wilkerson was quoted as saying.

The State Department continued its actions until US President George W. Bush personally asked Rumsfeld to cease encouraging Taiwanese independence and resume military exchanges with China, according to Wilkerson...[Open in new window]
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There have been & are two kinds of people in the Bush administration; The stupid & the crazy. The fuckwits & the asshats.
I hope most of us are around to eventually sort it all out. Make it a learning moment on the road to peace & sanity.
If you voted for Bush, please NEVER vote again. Devote the rest of your life to figuring out what's WRONG with you.
Figure out how you thought it was a good idea to have a Secretary of Defense trying to start a nuclear war.