I can’t speak to the psychosomatic or the genetic problems with heart attacks or whatever, but I can speak to power. He [Dick Cheney] 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.
— Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, says Dick Cheney “fears being tried as a war criminal,” ABC News reports.
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