Wilkerson Exposes Cheney/Rumsfeld Efforts to Provoke Showdown With China

May 15 (LPAC)--Dick Cheney's war party was attempting to provoke a crisis with China during the first Bush Administration through a steady parade of top Defense Department officials to Taipei, Taiwan to meet with President Chen Shui-bian, encouraging "independence" from China, revealed Col. Larry Wilkerson the former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell at a May 8 forum at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC). Wilkerson's statement is a chilling reminder of the warning by LPAC's Lyndon LaRouche that the real aim of the Cheney warmongers is war against China and Russia.

The May 8 event on the "Niger yellow cake" forgeries and other Iraq war lies, also heard Wilkerson answer the question as to why Powell did not resign in protest of the Bush/Cheney policies in Iraq.

" You would not have liked at all, to have seen the first Bush Administration without Colin Powell, " replied Wilkerson--adding that Cheney et al. wanted Powell out. It would not have had any effect in stopping the rush to war, he said.

"Even more serious" than Iraq was what Cheney and Rumsfeld were doing against China, Wilkerson revealed.

"The Defense Department, with [Assistant Secretary of Defense Doug] Feith, [Stephen] Cambone, [Deputy Secretary of Defense] Paul Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, was dispatching a person to Taiwan every week, essentially to tell the Taiwanese that the alliance was back on - essentially to tell Chen Shui-bian, whose entire power in Taiwan rested on the independence movement, that independence was a good thing. We dispatched .... someone from the State Department right behind that guy, every time they sent somebody, to disabuse the entire Taiwanese national security apparatus of what they'd been told by the Defense Department."