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Ex-Bush Official Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: "I am Willing to Testify" If Dick Cheney is Put on Trial
As former Vice President Dick Cheney publishes his long-awaited memoir, we speak to Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. "This is a book written out of fear, fear that one day someone will 'Pinochet' Dick Cheney," says Wilkerson, alluding to the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who was arrested for war crimes. Wilkerson also calls for George W. Bush and Cheney to be held accountable for their crimes in office. "I’d be willing to testify, and I’d be willing to take any punishment I’m due," Wilkerson said. We also speak to Salon.com political and legal blogger Glenn Greenwald about his recent article on Cheney, "The Fruits of Elite Immunity." "Dick Cheney goes around the country profiting off of this sleazy, sensationalistic, self-serving book, basically profiting from his crimes, and at the same time normalizing the idea that these kind of policies…are perfectly legitimate choices to make. And I think that’s the really damaging legacy from all of this," says Greenwald
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/8/30/ex_bush_official_col_lawrence_wilkerson
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What a fucking mess.
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talk about being above the law, this shit and so much more that has come out has far surpassed what is needed to bring these guys to court. Yet it is all ignored........
The only way to tell future presidents they can't do this shit is to nail the presidents who have. If you fail to do that, you get Obama and worse.
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The only way to tell future presidents they can't do this shit is to nail the presidents who have. If you fail to do that, you get Obama and worse.
Yep. I remember telling getbiggers that their nonstop support for Bush/Cheney doing as they wished wouldn't be so cool when Hilary was suddenly the most powerful president in history. Instead, it was Obama.
And, the next repub will have all of obama's power, and then some. nothing like an unstoppable president palin using her bible to decide who to bomb...
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Good to know honest people still exist in D.C.
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Good to know honest people still exist in D.C.
Why didnt this guy resign at the time and expose these things at the time?
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Why didnt this guy resign at the time and expose these things at the time?
Could be lots of reasons. Maybe guilt has finally taken it's toll
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Could be lots of reasons. Maybe guilt has finally taken it's toll
This
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Why didnt this guy resign at the time and expose these things at the time?
$$$$$$$$
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This guy is another ina series or Clinton era douchbags. Any time Olberman or the bull dyke want some kind of military spokesman on, they drag this guy out.
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Cheney is such a piece of sh*t.
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This guy is another ina series or Clinton era douchbags.
many "conservative" getbiggers voted clinton over bush in 1992.
They saw him play sax on arsenio.
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after reading all your comments .... I was gonna say this yesterday but wanted to get some replies. ... yes Im kinda begining to think this man is a shill. He sounds honorable but ... the fact that he goes on tv today and says he regrets it. is just a screen for they had every intention[which they did] of going and this is their sob story. .. bla bla bla.
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good for cheney
no shame
this will not help repubs
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after reading all your comments .... I was gonna say this yesterday but wanted to get some replies. ... yes Im kinda begining to think this man is a shill. He sounds honorable but ... the fact that he goes on tv today and says he regrets it. is just a screen for they had every intention[which they did] of going and this is their sob story. .. bla bla bla.
It sounded like a very well rehersed thought out response and as you said, reading between the lines, he was just kicking the blame over to someone else while trying to play CYA.
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It sounded like a very well rehersed thought out response and as you said, reading between the lines, he was just kicking the blame over to someone else while trying to play CYA.
Bingo.
Cheney is a bad guy, sure, but this clown is, as hh6 said, another stooge who gets dragged out from under his rock every time they need an ex-*insert republican person here* official to pimp their line of thinking. And some times it's just a "ex-official" they drag out and the guy could have have never met the President for all we know.
What "ex-Obama official" is Fox News going to drag out to talk about testifying against Obama for subverting the Constitution and Congress when going to war in Libya?
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Condoleezza Rice becomes the third member of the Bush administration to accuse Cheney of lying in his memoir
By Rachel Rose Hartman
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is the third senior official from President George W. Bush's administration to accuse Dick Cheney of lying in his new memoir, "In My Time."
Rice told Reuters in an interview Wednesday that she "kept the president fully and completely informed about every 'in and out' of the negotiations with the North Koreans," countering the former vice president's assertion that Rice misled the president about nuclear diplomacy with North Korea.
"You can talk about policy differences without suggesting that your colleague somehow misled the president," Rice said. "You know, I don't appreciate the attack on my integrity that that implies."
Rice also disputed Cheney's assertion that Rice "tearfully admitted" she was wrong for wanting the administration to apologize for President Bush's claim in the 2003 State of the Union that Iraq was searching for uranium for nuclear weapons.
"It certainly doesn't sound like me, now, does it?" Rice said."I would never--I don't remember coming to the vice president tearfully about anything in the entire eight years that I knew him."
Rice admitted that she told Cheney he had been correct about the press reaction to the uranium claim.
Rice is the third former official from George W. Bush's State Department to dispute parts of Cheney's memoir, which was published on Tuesday.
The book has provoked rebukes this week from former Secretary of State Colin Powell, as well as Powell's former chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson.
During an appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday, Powell defended himself, Rice and others against what he said were "cheap shots" lobbed by Cheney in his memoir to boost book sales.
Powell said contrary to Cheney's claims, the former vice president deserves no credit for Powell's resignation, that Powell presented dissenting views on the Iraq War to the president and that Powell and his former Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage, are not to blame for the Valerie Plame scandal.
In an interview with "Democracy Now!" on Tuesday, Wilkerson asserted that Cheney's fears of being tried as a war criminal influenced how the former vice president characterized situations in his memoir.
"This is a book written out of fear, fear that one day someone will 'Pinochet' Dick Cheney," Wilkerson said, referring to Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator who was charged for war crimes.
Wilkerson said it was "utter nonsense" for Cheney to claim to have anything to do with Powell's resignation.
"The only person Cheney does not seem to find fault with is Cheney," Wilkerson said.
Wilkerson said he regrets not resigning for putting together Powell's February 2003 presentation to the United Nations on the supposed presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Creating that presentation "was probably the biggest mistake of my life," he said.