Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Larry Wilkerson was chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell during the Bush Administration.

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Mr. LARRY WILKERSON (Former Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of State): And we sacrificed that.

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In an interview, Larry Wilkerson added more details.

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Mr. LARRY WILKERSON: 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.

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