FLATWIRE: Aide: Dick Cheney fears arrest for war crimes (UPI)

Aug. 31, 2011 -- WASHINGTON (UPI) -- A former aide to one-time U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell says former Vice President Dick Cheney fears he will be tried as a war criminal.

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."

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