Countdown: Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson says Dick Cheney borders on treason

[Wetzelbill]

Run time: 02:08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGZnzbfiBoQ   Posted on YouTube: May 22, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 22, 2009 By DU Member: Wetzelbill Views on DU: 2074

 
Summary:
Keith Olbermann interviews Colin Powell's former Chief of Staff, Lawrence Wilkerson.

KO and Wilkerson discuss the cynicism of Dick Cheney's speech and how Cheney knows that an attack on the U.S. and/or a deepening of the financial crisis would help the Republicans because they can blame it on Obama. Wilkerson says this borders on treason.

[garthranzz]

1. "BORDERS"?? DICK CHENEY IS A TREASONOUS, LYING SOB WHO BELONGS IN

GITMO!

[Wetzelbill]

3. You have to remember

Wilkerson is a Republican who was part of the administration. That he is even speaking out remotely forcefully is a big deal.

[glitch]

6. True BUT Cheney crossed that border decades ago.

Perhaps eventually Wilkerson will see that too.

[Wetzelbill]

8. I believe he said something a few days ago

along those lines when talking about how Cheney and Rumsfeld became this way after being part of the Nixon administration and that while he was in the first Bush administration that the only reason he wasn't as dangerous was that people like Poppy Bush, Powell, Jim Baker, and Brent Scowcroft were able to keep his extremism in check.

Cheney was like this long ago, but couldn't get away with as much, Dubya was like a playground for him. Wilkerson was talking about how Cheney basically ran all over Bush, and Cenk Uygur said something like: "Well I know you're trying to be nice but it sounds like you're saying this guy was so inexperienced, inept and not bright that Cheney was able to take advantage it it." Wilkerson said something like: "Well, you said it, not me," which of course meant that yes, Bush was an idiot and Cheney took advantage of it, like he was never able to before.

[RJ Connors]

11. Bush was an idiot and Cheney took advantage of it

Well yeah! That's why the neocons got him elected. So they could do whatever they pleased and have a fall guy for it. Basic criminality 101

[patrice]

2. We ARE being held hostage by Cheney's Bosses. nt

[glitch]

7. I think so too. nt

[patrice]

9. Just connect the dots you all. Who has Cheney worked for? Trans-National Co.

What's going on behind behind the scenes since Wall Street destroyed itself and us? Somebody has to be fighting somebody else for the wherewithall to fill all of the holes left by, according to some estimates, $700 trillion in Derivatives. There were a whole hell of a lot of chairs that were missing when their little game of musical chairs ended and Cheney is responsible for some of that. What better way to re-coup some of that than to divide and conquor the U.S. and what better way to divide and conquor the U.S. than another "Terrorist Strike". I'm not saying Cheney WANTS any of this to happen, but that ever since 9/11 he KNOWS what The Powers That Be can do.

[Cha]

4. Yeah! "Emboldening the enemy" with

the Collaberation of the corporatemedia.

[Gregorian]

5. This interview gave me a sense of pride like I haven't felt in a long time.

And to think that Wilkerson was right there with Powell. I don't know Wilkerson's politics, but this is one of those times when it doesn't matter. He speaks "Constitution". And that transcends party.

I'm inspired when I meet someone older who has my same intense political sentiment. No fooling around. It's deadly serious.

[Wetzelbill]

10. He says he's a Republican

and has been one for a long time, he just didn't think Bush and Cheney did business the same way that other presidents have and they went too far so he's compelled to speak about it.

[BlueMTexpat]

12. The Dicktater passed "borders on treason" when he

authorized torture to build a false case for invading Iraq and when he and his minions outed a CIA analyst (and those are only the cases we know about for sure, although I personally wonder about his role in or prior knowledge of 9-11). Either one of the first two would have had the MSM fulminating for the hanging, drawing and quartering of any Dem even suspected of such.

But yes, it is refreshing to see a Republican who has actually performed military service for our country and who has more balls than most Congressional Dems, call a spade a spade.

What I liked most was Wilkerson's mention of the "lawyer in Spain." :bounce: :woohoo:

[Stuart G]

13. I sure hope you are right about that lawyer in Spain...

I really wonder if he will ever be charged with anything. I wonder how this could be happening now, that Clinton was impeached for lieing about a blowjob, and Cheney gets to talk on tv, in effect being treasonous to this country.

Where have we come to...

[Independent_Liberal]

14. Oh yeah, he did mention that.

I hope the lawyer in Spain keeps going at it. I will say this, somebody IS going to do something. If the US doesn't, another country will.