Ex-Powell aide: Dick Cheney fears prosecution for war crimes
"Dick Cheney was “president for all practical purposes” during George W. Bush’s first term in office and “fears being tried as a war criminal,” according to Colin Powell’s chief of staff during his time as secretary of state.
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who has known Cheney for decades, told ABC News that Cheney was a “very vindictive person.”
“I simply don’t recognize Mr. Cheney anymore,” he added.
In his memoir, “In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir,” which was released Tuesday, Cheney claimed Powell had undermined Bush, by criticizing policy to people outside the administration. Cheney told NBC News that the book would see “heads exploding all over Washington.”
In the ABC interview, Wilkerson suggested Cheney was adopting a tough stance in an attempt to forestall criticism or even prosecution.
“What really sort of got my attention was this way in which he characterized it (the memoir): it’s going to ‘cause heads to explode,’” Powell said. "That’s quite a visual. And in fact, it’s the kind of headline I would expect to come out of a gossip columnist, or the kind of headline you might see one of the supermarket tabloids write. It’s not the kind of headline I would have expected to come from a former vice president of the United States of America.
“I think he’s just trying to, one, assert himself so he’s not in some subsequent time period tried for war crimes and, second, so that he somehow vindicates himself because he feels like he needs vindication. That in itself tells you something about him,” Wilkerson added."
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Is there really any chance of Cheney being brought up on war crimes or is Cheney just being paranoid?