He's developed an angst and almost a protective cover, and now he fears being tried as a war criminal so he uses such terminology as 'exploding heads all over Washington' because that's the way someone who's decided he's not going to be prosecuted acts: boldly, let's get out in front of everybody, let's act like we are not concerned and so forth when in fact they are covering up their own fear that somebody will Pinochet him," Wilkerson said alluding to the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who was arrested for war crimes.
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That would be Augusto Pinochet, who spent the last years of his life under house arrest and died with 300 charges pending against him.
After peacefully stepping down in 1990, Pinochet continued to serve as Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army until 10 March 1998, when he retired and became a senator-for-life in accordance with the 1980 Constitution. In 2004, Chilean Judge Juan Guzmán Tapia ruled that Pinochet was medically fit to stand trial and placed him under house arrest.[3] By the time of his death on 10 December 2006, about 300 criminal charges were still pending against him in Chile for numerous human rights violations, tax evasion and embezzlement during his 17-year rule and afterwards.[12] Pinochet was accused of having corruptly amassed a wealth of US$28 million or more.
Sounds like Cheney's kind of guy to me. It took 14 years, BTW, before Pinochet was arrested. It may take that long this time. Just for starters, any trial of Bush or Cheney would doubtless reach the Supreme Court, so we need to replace the judges who decided to award Bush the Presidency before we do so. Do you really want whatever legal fiction the RATS devise to save Bush's and / or Cheney's ass to be a legal precedent?
Wilkerson also says this:
"I can't speak to the psychosomatic or the genetic problems with heart attacks or whatever, but I can speak to power," Wilkerson said. "He wanted desperately to be president of the United States … he knew the Texas governor was not steeped in anything but baseball, so he knew he was going to be president and I think he got his dream. He was president for all practical purposes for the first term of the Bush administration."
I remember all the conservatives claiming that Bush was another Churchill for his leadership post 9/11. Funny - I do NOT recall anyone saying in the 1950's that Lord Beaverbrook was Prime Minister for all practical purposes. Bush was never up to the job, at all, and Cheney's book is just another piece of data for future historians to note just how well the American public were manipulated to put a clearly incompetent buffoon in charge at a critical moment.
Dick Cheney is a frightened, bitter, mean, cowardly man. He may not live to see the inside of a prison, but I suspect he's already in one of his own making.