Powell Aide Says Cheney Acted as President
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, the chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, says Dick Cheney "was president for all practical purposes for the first term of the Bush administration" and "fears being tried as a war criminal," ABC News reports.

Said Wilkerson: "I can't speak to the psychosomatic or the genetic problems with heart attacks or whatever, but I can speak to power. 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."

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