Dick Cheney Dies
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shanneba
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Cheney operated much of the time from undisclosed locations in the months after the 2001 attacks, kept apart from Bush to ensure one or the other would survive any follow-up assault on the country’s leadership.
With Bush out of town on that fateful day, Cheney was a steady presence in the White House, at least until Secret Service agents lifted him off his feet and carried him away, in a scene the vice president later described to comical effect.
The Iraq War
A hard-liner on Iraq who was increasingly isolated as other hawks left government, Cheney was proved wrong on point after point in the Iraq War, without ever losing the conviction that he was essentially right.
He alleged links between the 2001 attacks against the United States and prewar Iraq that didn’t exist. He said U.S. troops would be welcomed as liberators; they weren’t.
When he shot a hunting companion in the torso, neck and face with an errant shotgun blast in 2006, he and his coterie were slow to disclose that extraordinary turn of events.
The vice president called it “one of the worst days of my life.” The victim, his friend Harry Whittington, recovered and quickly forgave him. Comedians were relentless about it for months.
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With Bush out of town on that fateful day, Cheney was a steady presence in the White House, at least until Secret Service agents lifted him off his feet and carried him away, in a scene the vice president later described to comical effect.
The Iraq War
A hard-liner on Iraq who was increasingly isolated as other hawks left government, Cheney was proved wrong on point after point in the Iraq War, without ever losing the conviction that he was essentially right.
He alleged links between the 2001 attacks against the United States and prewar Iraq that didn’t exist. He said U.S. troops would be welcomed as liberators; they weren’t.
When he shot a hunting companion in the torso, neck and face with an errant shotgun blast in 2006, he and his coterie were slow to disclose that extraordinary turn of events.
The vice president called it “one of the worst days of my life.” The victim, his friend Harry Whittington, recovered and quickly forgave him. Comedians were relentless about it for months.
Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in US history, dies at 84
The hard-charging conservative became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq.
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HayesGreener
Ronin
I think he was an honorable man and patriot caught in the grips of historical events. His daughter, not so much.
Annihilator
Hellion
RIP sir!
I will say whem he was Secretary of defense he irked a lot of us in the Military when the bounced/hot check debacle hit congress and he was one of them that bounced a check.
He called them “problem checks” our issue was I saw a lot of young troops get a lot of over kill on discipline for bouncing just one check and here this dude is doing ServPro like it never happened!
I could go on about his trigger discipline when he shot his friend up but that’s another thread.
He called them “problem checks” our issue was I saw a lot of young troops get a lot of over kill on discipline for bouncing just one check and here this dude is doing ServPro like it never happened!
I could go on about his trigger discipline when he shot his friend up but that’s another thread.
Yeah by sending others to fight so his company could make bank!