🇺🇸 The former Vice-President Dick Cheney Died 🕊
The former White House chief of staff, congressman, secretary of defense and US vice-president Cheney has died, his family has said. He was 84. 🕯
A Yale dropout who avoided service in Vietnam, Cheney nonetheless became a giant of Republican politics. 🦅
He was a White House aide under Richard Nixon; the youngest ever chief of staff to Gerald Ford; a congressman under Ronald Reagan; secretary of defense to George H. W. Bush; and vice-president to George W. Bush.
When the younger Bush plucked him from the corporate giant Halliburton to be his running mate in the 2000 presidential election, Cheney had already survived three heart attacks ❤️🩹. Nor was he immune to mishap: once, while vice-president, he shot a hunting partner in the face 🎯.
Nonetheless, he became one of the most powerful vice-presidents, widely reported to wield great influence over the less experienced Bush ⚖️.
He was defense secretary during the first Gulf War (1990–1991), a swift campaign to eject Saddam Hussein from Kuwait.
A decade later, Bush and Cheney’s public rationale for war was that the Iraqi dictator was linked to al-Qaida and thus 9/11, and possessed weapons of mass destruction 💣.
By March 2003, when US and coalition forces invaded, no proof had been found for either charge — they were soon proved false.
The violence spread — according to the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University, since 2001 “at least 800,000 people have been killed by direct war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan.” ☮️
The Cheney biographer Jake Bernstein said:
“There has been some rehabilitation with George W. Bush. In comparison with Donald Trump, everyone starts to look better. But Dick Cheney liked the fact everyone called him Darth Vader. I don’t think there’ll be an effort on his part to soften his image.” 🖤
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The former White House chief of staff, congressman, secretary of defense and US vice-president Cheney has died, his family has said. He was 84. 🕯
A Yale dropout who avoided service in Vietnam, Cheney nonetheless became a giant of Republican politics. 🦅
He was a White House aide under Richard Nixon; the youngest ever chief of staff to Gerald Ford; a congressman under Ronald Reagan; secretary of defense to George H. W. Bush; and vice-president to George W. Bush.
When the younger Bush plucked him from the corporate giant Halliburton to be his running mate in the 2000 presidential election, Cheney had already survived three heart attacks ❤️🩹. Nor was he immune to mishap: once, while vice-president, he shot a hunting partner in the face 🎯.
Nonetheless, he became one of the most powerful vice-presidents, widely reported to wield great influence over the less experienced Bush ⚖️.
He was defense secretary during the first Gulf War (1990–1991), a swift campaign to eject Saddam Hussein from Kuwait.
A decade later, Bush and Cheney’s public rationale for war was that the Iraqi dictator was linked to al-Qaida and thus 9/11, and possessed weapons of mass destruction 💣.
By March 2003, when US and coalition forces invaded, no proof had been found for either charge — they were soon proved false.
The violence spread — according to the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University, since 2001 “at least 800,000 people have been killed by direct war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan.” ☮️
The Cheney biographer Jake Bernstein said:
“There has been some rehabilitation with George W. Bush. In comparison with Donald Trump, everyone starts to look better. But Dick Cheney liked the fact everyone called him Darth Vader. I don’t think there’ll be an effort on his part to soften his image.” 🖤
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