Dick Cheney, the divisive US Vice-President under George W Bush who helped lead the country through a disastrous invasion of Iraq, died on Monday, his family said. He is 84.
Cheney at different times held the roles of member of Congress, the White House chief of home defense, but this seems to be the strongest impact on the country, using the greatest influence in the country on the less expressive bush.
Cheney was in office on 11 September 2001 at the time of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. While Bush rushed to safety, Cheney worked with defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, on Consider the policy constraint. Soon the Afghan troops, fighting the Taliban and Hitsing Al-Qaida.
But Cheney’s place in history may be dominated by the decision to invade Iraq. He was a secretary of defense in the first Gulf War Mount Saddam Hussein, in 1990 and 1991, but the public task of the War is that the Iraqi dictator is linked to AL-Qaida and thus 9/11, and has weapons of mass destruction. By March 2003, when US and coalition forces invaded, no proof was found for either charge, and both were soon proven false..
Although Cheney called for international cooperation, he also thought, he later wrotethat the Bush administration “has an obligation to do whatever it takes to protect America”.
Mortality is high. According to at the Watson School of International and Public Affairs at Brown University, since 2001 “at least 800,000 people have been killed in Direct War in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Bakistan”.
The treatment of prisoners taken by the US in the “war on terror” has also proven controversial. Out of office, Cheney continued to defend the use of torture against detainees after 9/11.
A Yale dropout who avoided serving in Vietnam, Cheney nevertheless became a giant of Republican politics.
He was a White House Aide under Richard Nixon; The youngest ever White House Chief of Staff, Gerald Ford; a member of Congress under Ronald Reagan; Secretary of Defense to George HW Bush, and Vice-President to George W Bush.
When the younger bush took him from the Halliburton Corporation To become his running mate in the 2000 presidential election, Cheney had already survived three heart attacks. Nor is he immune to error: once, while Vice-President, he shot a hunting partner.
Cheney underwent a successful heart transplant in 2012, after suffering from a previous heart attack, but it was an “unbelievable” long-term patient to deal with, Jonathan Referer’s regime told CNN.
The former President “wasn’t worried about what people knew about his heart disease. He was very open about it,” Reiner said. “He was the most patient, unbelievably compliant. And I think that’s one of the reasons why he lived such a long life.”
Cheney’s daughter, Liz Cheney, followed him in republican politics as a representative of the US house from a congressman criticized by Donald Trump in the January 6 insult.
The Elder Cheney also attended an event to mark the first anniversary of the attack next to his daughter, where he expressed any people that I have known in 10 years “and” You can not imagine what a reason [January 6] “.
Cheney announced in 2024 that he would vote for Kamala Harris rather than the Republican Nominee Trump, who does not really have an individual who has a re-republican to prepare for the preparation of the constitution”.
Speaking to the Guardian in 2018, on the release of Vice, a darkly comic biopic of the incarcerated Donald Trump.