As US media try to whitewash his legacy in death, the world continues to grapple with the horrors he helped unleash.
And so another member of the old “war on terror” team has left the world. Dick Cheney, who served as the most powerful vice president in the history of the United States during the two-term administration of George W Bush (2001-2009), died on Monday at the age of 84.
According to a memorial statement issued by his family, 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”.
And yet many inhabitants of the Earth will remember the late VP for rather less warm and fuzzy things than love and fly fishing.
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