Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“The former vice president, Dick Cheney, has died at the age of 84. Cheney was one of the U.S. officials most responsible for the illegal invasion of Iraq and the government’s torture of detainees. He was a leading advocate of both regime change and torture, and he used his substantial influence in the Bush administration to make both happen. Like other Bush administration officials responsible for the criminal aggression against Iraq, Cheney never faced justice for his crimes. … When awful politicians die, there is a tendency to whitewash their records and to withhold criticism. That is frequently a mistake. Cheney escaped accountability in life. He never paid any price for the destruction he caused and the lives that his policies ruined and ended. The very least we can do now is to remember what he did and to tell the truth about it.” (11/04/25)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/dick-cheney-war-criminal-dead-at