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Former VP Dick Cheney has died at age 84, his family said in a statement on Tuesday.
Cheney died Monday night from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, his family said, reported Reuters.
The Republican - a former Wyoming congressman and secretary of defense - was already a major Washington player when then-Texas governor George W. Bush chose him to be his running mate in the 2000 presidential race that Bush went on to win.
As vice president from 2001 to 2009, Cheney fought vigorously for an expansion of the power of the presidency, having felt that it had been eroding since the Watergate scandal that drove his one-time boss Richard Nixon from office. He also expanded the clout of the vice president's office by putting together a national security team that often served as a power center of its own within the administration.
Cheney was a strong advocate for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and was among the most outspoken of Bush administration officials warning of the danger from Iraq's alleged stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. No such weapons were found.
Both Bush administrations were instrumental in developing and implementing the U.S. surveillance state we now enjoy. Cheney will be remembered as one of the architects of the lies behind the Iraq War.
RicharDick Cheney was a self-serving great deceiver, a backstabber, unprincipled, immoral, power-abusing, reckless, arrogant, human-sacrificing flake of a man and he passed it down to his daughter Liz.
yeah she's a real winner.....not! she torpedoed her political career all by herself. just stuck on stupid i guess
Nobody cares that this dirt bag is taking a dirt nap now.......just stating the obivious.