Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at age 84.
Cheney died Monday night due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, his family said in a statement.
The quietly forceful Cheney served father and son presidents, leading the armed forces as defense chief during the Persian Gulf War under President George H.W. Bush before returning to public life as vice president under Bush’s son George W. Bush.
Cheney was, in effect, the chief operating officer of the younger Bush’s presidency. He had a hand, often a commanding one, in implementing decisions most important to the president and some of surpassing interest to himself — all while living with decades of heart disease and, post-administration, a heart transplant. Cheney consistently defended the extraordinary tools of surveillance, detention and inquisition employed in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Source - Associated Press
Former Vice President Cheney is dead at 84. I am sure, that throughout the day & the rest of the week, people will take to social media to tell you a whitewashed version of Cheney’s history.
They will tell you about him calling out Donald Trump…how things were more “civil” under his administration…how we should remember one of the “good” republicans.
I’m here to tell you that that’s all bullshit.
Here’s how I will remember Dick Cheney:
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