I don't want to start a new thread about Bush and Iraq, so I just take the most recent mentioning both names to link to an interview of the German Magazine DER SPIEGEL with FORMER POWELL AID LAWRENCE WILKERSON:

A Leaderless, Directionless Superpower

...When I left the State Department, there were over 70 deaths of people in detention, some of them being investigated, some of them covered up. ...I call it the low point in my professional career. I mean, I look back on it, and I rack my brain again. I wasn't a novice. I had been an intelligence user for years. How did we get so fooled?...There was a single word used by countless people in the government to describe the National Security Council under Dr. Rice and that is "dysfunctional."....They are not neo-cons. They are not new conservatives. They're Jacobins. Their predecessor is French Revolution leader Maximilien Robespierre. ...

Wolfgang