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BY ERICA COGHILL

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Cheney’s book release is garnering a lot of attention...

And it’s not all positive. Media outlets have described his demeanor in the memoir as unapologetic, where Cheney justifies decisions he made during HIS TIME in office.  

And a lot of key topics are resonating... like for instance, Cheney’s take on the Iraq war as seen in a NBC Today show interview...

“I don’t think that it damaged our reputation around the world, I just don’t believe that, I think the critics here at home would argue that, but, in fact, I think it was sound policy that dealt with a very serious problem.”

In his tell-all, Cheney shares more than just his personal accounts, he also takes a crack at Colin Powell.

This is what the former VP said in a Dateline NBC interview…

“I did feel that the state department did not serve the president well, I would hear discussions, for example that General Powell had objected to or opposed our operations in Iraq, but that never happened sitting around the table in the national security council, it was the kind of thing that seemed to be said outside of others.”

Powell fired right back in an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation... calling Cheney’s attacks, “cheap shots”.

“He says I went out of my way not to present my positions to the president, but to take them outside of the administration, that’s nonsense, the president knows that I told him what I thought about every issue of the day.”

And then there’s Cheney’s take on enhanced interrogation techniques... in that same NBC interview with Matt Lauer, Cheney says he doesn’t have any regrets about waterboarding.

“I would strongly support using it again if circumstances arose where we had a high-value detainee and that was the only way we could get him to talk.”

Waterboarding... controversial? Very... and one analyst on MSNBC points out it’s also illegal, but the panel was torn, with another saying considering the circumstances of 911, Cheney made the right decision. 

“Let me just say this, Dick Cheney, I’m ambivalent about him, but he did get one big thing right, and that was that 911 was serious and there was not another domestic attack to the Americans during the Bush admin.  That was a huge accomplishment and that alone is a great legacy.”  

CNN gets to the reason behind Cheney writing the book in an interview with a Daily Beast columnist...

“I think this is an attempt to get Dick Cheney’s truth out, and that’s a perfectly appropriate role for a memoir, and at the end of the day, Dick Cheney is a pretty unapologetic fellow, he was never one to internalize criticisms and of course, he is going to stand his ground on waterboarding and everything else.”

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