Dick Cheney, Powerful Former Vice President, Dies
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Dick Cheney was to many the embodiment of the unpopular and bloody war Iraq war. But his late-in-life anti-Trumpism changed his image for some of his longtime critics.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s notable career moments included the global war on terror, endorsing same-sex marriage and backing the Iraq war.
Cheney - the VP under President Bush from 2001 to 2009 - died from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease on Monday night.
In 2018, Cheney once again became the butt of national ridicule after comedian and Borat creator Sacha Baron Cohen, in disguise as an Israeli counterterrorism expert, got him to autograph a makeshift “waterboard kit” without much hesitation.
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