Daily Mail UK
August 31, 2011
An aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell has hit out at Dick Cheney, saying the former Vice President fears being ‘tried as a war criminal’.
Powell’s long-time aide and chief of staff, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson told ABC news Cheney, ‘Was president for all practical purposes for the first term of the Bush administration,’ adding, ‘[He] fears being tried as a war criminal.’
The attack comes in the wake of attempts by Cheney to publicise his new book, with Powell accusing the one-time vice president of taking ‘cheap shots’ at the former Bush administration.
According to early reports, Cheney’s forthcoming book breaks with the former administration’s version of events.
But former Secretary of State Powell has dismissed Cheney’s sensational claims as ‘supermarket tabloid’ material designed to ‘pump up sales’.
He brushed off Cheney’s claims that Powell tried to undercut President Bush’s policies in Iraq.
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