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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-31-09 12:34 PM
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Wilkerson: Cheney "Lonely, Paranoid, Frightened"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/29/wilkerson-cheney-lonely-p_n_209182.html
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The night after Colin Powell delivered his infamous argument to the United Nations justifying the invasion of Iraq, Lawrence Wilkerson, his chief of staff, sat down and wrote a letter of resignation. It was, said Wilkerson Friday, " the lowest point in my professional and my personal life."

He stuffed the letter in his desk drawer. And left it there.

"If I have a regret when I go to my grave, it is that I did not resign," said Wilkerson, because of course Powell's speech turned out to be almost entirely false.

Six years after the UN speech, the group also debated Dick Cheney and his legacy -- and whether he should be prosecuted. Wilkerson told the Qatar-based news network than he thought it was impractical to charge former vice president with a crime, regardless of his own preference. He would rather, he said, see the administration's lawyers disbarred before going after "lonely, paranoid, frightened Dick Cheney."

Scheuer had sharp words for Cheney, too. "I think Mr. Cheney is a despicable, reptilian person," he said, drawing laughter from the crowd.

Moran apportioned the blame for torture on the Bush administration generally, but Rushing pressed him to "name names."

"Dick Cheney," said Moran in response. "Bybee the poor lawyer who can't get a job so I'm not going to mention his name." He was referring to Judge Jay Bybee, a chief architect of the legal rationale for the Bush administration's program of torture who is now on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit; and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, still unemployed.

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Impractical my ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Special Prosecutor time!
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-31-09 12:37 PM
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1. I agree with him. Go after the people that aren't household names first.
Start with Bybee.

Let Cheney and Gozales sit in their fancy houses, sweating, and waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-31-09 12:46 PM
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2. No problem with that
but there's nothing impractical about going after Cheney.
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