Former Vice President Dick Cheney Dead at 84

[EddMarkStarr]

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Was it a complication from his heart problems, like Eminem rapped?

 

[KaraBulut]

 

[unloadonme]

Was it a complication from his heart problems, like Eminem rapped?

I seem to recall that Cheney had had cardiac problems for years, including when he was serving as V-P.

 

[rareboy]

The man who lied the US into the Iraq war.

 

[unloadonme]

The man who lied the US into the Iraq war.

Surely he can't have been any worse than Tony Bliar, the man who lied the UK into the Iraq war.

 

[Dargelos]

Not to defend Tony's hideous mistake, but;
The war would still have happened, Blair or no Blair.
It would not have without Cheney.
With no Cheney, hundreds of thousands of people would still be alive.

 

[KaraBulut]

Not to defend Tony's hideous mistake, but;
The war would still have happened, Blair or no Blair.
It would not have without Cheney.
With no Cheney, hundreds of thousands of people would still be alive.

Well, if we want to share the blame, Iraq was the rare war that had Congressional authorization - the 2002 vote was 296-133 in the House and 77-23 in the Senate. The authorization was finally repealed last month, after years of failed attempts by Senators from both parties to remove it. At the same time, they finally repealed the 1991 authorization for the first Iraq War!

Dick Cheney has been gone from power since 2009, so the 17 years since then are on the Senate.

 

[Dominus]

Darth Vader is dead.

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/04/123987715/dick-cheney-former-vice-president-dies