Dick Cheney's True Book title should be "In My War Crimes Time, Blood and Barbarism for Oil " Demonstrators with Amnesty International call for the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into the roles of former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, and other officials in the use of torture in US counter-terrorism operations in front of the Justice Department in Washington on August 30, 2011. Cheney's memoir, In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir, hit the bookshelves Tuesday, and piles criticisms and attacks on many colleagues during George W. Bush's administration, especially Powell, whom Cheney accused of undermining Bush. However, Powell's chief of staff, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, told ABC News Cheney "was president for all practical purposes for the first term of the Bush administration" and "fears being tried as a war criminal." On Sunday, Powell called Cheney's criticism "cheap shots" on CBS News' "Face the Nation." Wilkerson said he's known Cheney for decades, but now, "I simply don't recognize Mr. Cheney anymore," ABC News reported Tuesday. Wilkerson called the former vice president a "very vindictive person." "I think he's just trying to, one, assert himself so he's not in some subsequent time period tried for war crimes and, second, so that he somehow vindicates himself because he feels like he needs vindication. That in itself tells you something about him," Wilkerson said. He said Cheney may have experienced "angst ...
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