Via DemocracyNow!
As former Vice President Dick Cheney publishes his long-awaited memoir, we speak to Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. "This is a book written out of fear, fear that one day someone will ‘Pinochet’ Dick Cheney," says Wilkerson, alluding to the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who was arrested for war crimes.
Wilkerson also calls for George W. Bush and Cheney to be held accountable for their crimes in office. "I’d be willing to testify, and I’d be willing to take any punishment I’m due," Wilkerson said. We also speak to Salon.com political and legal blogger Glenn Greenwald about his recent article on Cheney, "The Fruits of Elite Immunity." "Dick Cheney goes around the country profiting off of this sleazy, sensationalistic, self-serving book, basically profiting from his crimes, and at the same time normalizing the idea that these kind of policies…are perfectly legitimate choices to make. And I think that’s the really damaging legacy from all of this," says Greenwald.
Cheney will get away with his crimes because the USA is no longer a Democracy. It is Fascist Plutocracy. The ruling elite can do anything they want and walk free. Despite his impressive appearance, Obama is just another American war criminal President,like those before him, going back to Kennedy from my memory. The other reason why Cheney will walk free is that he is already dead, his corps kept moving by a device that shows no hearbeat. The plutocrats have been exporting American jobs to Asia,abandoning the middle class and the poor. There is only one way for Americans to reclaim their once great country. They have to take it back in a new revolution. Good luck.