Dick Cheney, America’s most powerful modern vice president and chief architect of the “war on terror,” who helped lead the country into the ill-fated Iraq war on faulty assumptions, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 84.

  • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    It was clear to anyone paying attention. GWB was a patsy. Doddering idiot.

    By all accounts he had a good heart, but terrible friends and family.

    Cheney took the opportunity to run the presidency from the shadows, and did great evil in GWB’s name.

    With that said, they both barely hold a candle to the evil of the current admin.

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      3 days ago

      Don’t give GWB that much credit, he was playing up the bumbling idiot schtick as a smokescreen for what was going on behind the scenes

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        He lost his first campaign because he was “that egghead from Harvard.”

        He certainly recalibrated and leaned into a fake Texan accent after that.

        Whether he is an actual bumblefuck I can’t say. He’s certainly a legacy admission.