Former Vice President Dick Cheney's memoir, "In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir," is out Tuesday, and it's full of criticism and attacks on his Bush administration colleagues -- from describing Condoleezza Rice as "tearfully admitting" he was right on the war in Iraq to revealing private conversations with George W. Bush on the eve of the Iraq war.
He reserves much of his ire for former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and now Powell and his longtime aide and chief of staff, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, are attempting to set the record straight. In no uncertain terms. Cheney, Wilkerson told ABC News, "was president for all practical purposes for the first term of the Bush administration" and "fears being tried as a war criminal."
At least it shows that although he may be one of the nastiest individuals in the planet, he has a conscious, and it's telling him that he is no better than Bin Ladden, Gaddafi or Mubarak. There will be no true justice, until war criminals, they being either dictators or democratically elected, be brought to justice. Yes, just because they were elected, and served their term, does not excuse them of their crimes.
For my friends who may point out that I am anti-American, pay a look at who are saying this things. They are people that have served the United States more than my critics ever will in their life times.
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