₦airaland Forum

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.

“His beloved wife of 61 years, Lynne, his daughters, Liz and Mary, and other family members were with him as he passed,” the family said, adding that he died due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease.

“Dick Cheney was a great and good man who taught his children and grandchildren to love our country, and to live lives of courage, honor, love, kindness, and fly fishing,” the family added.

“We are grateful beyond measure for all Dick Cheney did for our country. And we are blessed beyond measure to have loved and been loved by this noble giant of a man.”

The 46th vice president, who served alongside Republican President George W. Bush for two terms between 2001 and 2009, was for decades a towering and polarizing Washington power player.

Bush described Cheney in a statement Tuesday as a “decent, honorable man.” “History will remember him as among the finest public servants of his generation – a patriot who brought integrity, high intelligence, and seriousness of purpose to every position,” Bush said.

In his final years, Cheney, still a hardline conservative, nevertheless became largely ostracized from his party over his intense criticism of President Donald Trump whom he branded a “coward” and the greatest-ever threat to the republic.

PigTormentor:
Trump makes cheney look like a normal good person.
That goes to show how terrible of a human being Trump is.

Sonnobax15:

Nothing really dey this life 😔

May Diick continue to rest in peace 😔

twin7:
Strongest VP in recent times....always wondered how BUSH tamed him, aspirations wise.

rowland545:
His name was dick...e get luck say e no attend Nigerian public school

nedekid:
Dick cherney should rest in peace or in misery, hell fire? Do you know the catastrophy this man caused, the lives he destroyed, the babies he killed, the kids that did not grow up knowing parents, the destruction of whole countries, this man and his cohorts were as evil as it could get. The only reason such men did not face justice in the Hague and hanged is because they are from the most powerful country in the world so rules do not apply to them.
If there is an afterlife, surely millions of aggrieved should will be waiting to settle scores with him.