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And steer U.S. occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. | |
| The Washington Times has Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history, dies at 84. | ||
| The story goes on to say he was a deeply polarizing figure, with his critics and some admirers viewing him as the power behind the Bush White House. | ||
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| This is the Associated Press story that was posted at 6.42 this morning of this announcement of the passing of the former vice president. | ||
| It says, Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at 84. | ||
| Cheney died Monday night due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, according to a statement from the family spokesman Jeremy Adler. | ||
| The quietly forceful Cheney served father and son president, leading the armed forces as defense chief during the Persian Gulf War under President George H.W. Bush, before returning to public life as vice president under Bush's son, George W. Bush. | ||
| Cheney was, in effect, the chief operating officer of the younger Bush's presidency. | ||
| He had a hand off and a commanding one in implementing decisions most important to the president and some of surpassing interest to himself. | ||
| All while living with decades of heart disease and post-administration of heart transplant, he consistently defended the extraordinary tools of surveillance, detention, and acquisition employed in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. | ||
| Again, that is the write-up from the Associated Press this morning concerning Dick Cheney. | ||
| If you go over to the CNN website, some highlights of his political career to share with you, including starting in March 1989, President George H.W. Bush nominates Cheney for Secretary of Defense after John Tower's nomination for the position fails to win Senate confirmation. | ||
| From 1989 to 93, he serves as Secretary of Defense. | ||
| He directs two military campaigns during this time, Operation Just Cause in Panama and Operation Desert Storm in the Middle East. | ||
| It was in July of 1991. | ||
| He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bush for his leadership during the Gulf War. | ||
| And in March of 92, well, going up to March of 2000, he was asked by George W. Bush to be his running mate. | ||
| He declines, instead, accepting a position vetting potential vice president candidates. | ||
| He accepts in July when Bush accepts and asks again from 2001 to 2009, serving as vice president. | ||
| We'll show you more there about the highlights of the former vice president's career, particularly when it comes to the Gulf War and post-9-11. | ||
| Again, you can make your calls and comments on the passing of Dick Cheney. | ||
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| Independence. | ||
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| Let's start with Vincent. | ||
| He's in Connecticut on our line for independence on the passing of former Vice President Dick Cheney. | ||
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Hello, sir. | |
| How are you? | ||
| Fine, thank you. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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Well, good riddance. | |
| Any miserable warmonger that dies is a good thing. | ||
| I have nothing good to say about Dick Cheney. | ||
| A lot of people are dead because of this jerk. | ||
| He was a snotty jerk on top of that. | ||
| He lied us into war, got many people killed, and was basically our president for eight years. | ||
| I don't care he's dead. | ||
| I'm glad he's dead. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Let's hear from Vicki. | ||
| Vicki is in California, lying for Democrats on the passing of the former vice president. | ||
| Vicki, go ahead. | ||
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Well, hello there, Pedro. | |
| Thank you for taking my call. | ||
| I'll say something a little different. | ||
| I'm 74 years old. | ||
| I became very aware of politics at an early, early age with my dad being a World War II veteran. | ||
| And my mother, she was up one World War II. | ||
| She knew all the theaters of the war. | ||
| My whole family served three brothers and everybody else I knew in my mom and dad's family. | ||
| So I remember President Eisenhower being a strong Republican and all the strong Republicans after that. | ||
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I, of course, was a Democrat. | |
| My family was Democrat, still working family. | ||
| But something happened after Ronald Reagan with the neocons, and they started to change a little bit. | ||
| And we noticed this. | ||
| We said, you're acting very strange, the Republicans are, you know. | ||
| And then in the Bush era, it became even harder to, as a Democrat, to tolerate Republican ideology. | ||
| And how does that relate to the former vice president then? | ||
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I will say this. | |
| He spanned many types of Republican strengths. | ||
| But in his last days, with his daughter being such a great American and heroic to lead that hearing in the House about Donald Trump, he not only warned us of Donald Trump, he said that he would vote for Kamala Harris, and he did stand with her on the floor of the House of Representatives to honor those who were killed and wounded on January 6th, one year prior. | ||
| And in his last days, they were the best. | ||
| So I say he can rest in peace. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Shirley in Pennsylvania, Republican line. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| You're on. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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How are you, folks? | |
| Okay. | ||
| I want to talk about something that no one ever talks about. | ||
| You know that God owned the world. | ||
| He made all the children. | ||
| He loved them dearly. | ||
| It didn't matter what color they were. | ||
| And he said he would take care of us, and he is. | ||
| But there is another thing in the air. | ||
| It's called the devil. | ||
| He does things his way. | ||
| He wants to take America and Israel down. | ||
| Please, people. | ||
| Okay, caller. | ||
| We're talking about the passing of the former vice president. | ||
| Do you have anything to add to that, front? | ||
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Well, not too much, except can I finish one thing? | |
| No, we'll carry on. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Al Allen in New Jersey, Independent Line. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| You're next up. | ||
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Yes. | |
| Good morning, sir. | ||
| Thank goodness for C-SPAN. | ||
| I've been a long time viewer watcher. | ||
| I haven't called in a few decades. | ||
| Let me just say we talk about the concept of the unitary president as the current president is pushing that envelope. | ||
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I believe Vice President Cheney was running the show, as we used to say in Jersey City, New Jersey. | |
| He was running the show for George W. Bush. | ||
| And that's my opinion. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Born January the 30th, 1941. | ||
| That was in Lincoln, Nebraska. | ||
| The former vice president also, as part of his career, he served as White House chief of staff in the Ford administration. | ||
| That from 1975 to 1977, he was a representative of Wyoming, Republican in the House, that from 1979 to 1989. | ||
| Defense Secretary under George H.W. Bush, which you mentioned, that was from 89 to 93, and the 46th Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. | ||
| Former President Dick Cheney passing away early or yesterday, announced early this morning about his passing. | ||
| You can call in and give comment 202748-8000 for Democrats, 202748-8001 for Republicans. | ||
| Independence 202748-8002. | ||
| Brandon in California, Independent Line on the passing of the former vice president. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Yeah, yeah. | |
| This is Brandon James Gunderson. | ||
| This is Professor Gunderson. | ||
| Am I on the line? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| What do you have to say about the passing of the former vice president, please? | ||
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Oh, yeah, we constantly memorialize him as a controversial figure, but the events of 2011, 9-11, were generally polarizing circumstances. | |
| But he was just such a servant unto the Bush dynasty of both administrations. | ||
| And Halliburton has done wonderful work in infrastructure and foreign borders as well as domestically. | ||
| And he did get the work done after the terror attack. | ||
| I don't think he's the most polarizing figure, but I'm just generally concerned about some of our current social and pathological conditions against him and for him and his against us and forests. | ||
| Obviously, I'm a representative of the millennial generation, the ad hoc, you know, general representation of social media and streaming internet from 2005 to 2008, which is the general contrast of the representations and castigation of the campaign before the Bush administration. | ||
| But I thought Cheney handled the situation quite well, especially Iraq with the Saudi government under Saudi contracts. | ||
| And we evaluated Afghanistan correctly at peak oil and standard oil and market means for labor fluctuations as well as general sustainable population infrastructure. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Let's hear from Al. | ||
| Alan, New Jersey, Democrats line. | ||
| Hi. | ||
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Hello? | |
| Alan, New Jersey, you're on. | ||
| Go ahead, please. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Mr. Cheney and Rumsfeld, their slogan for the war was Army of One, which was to me the most stupid thing I have ever heard in my life. | ||
| And between the two of them, they ran Bush and that administration into tremendous debt and misery. | ||
| And thank God for his daughter. | ||
| She's a decent person and Trump is a bum. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Richard in Kentucky, Republican line, you're next. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Being a Christian man, I don't want to speak ill of the dead. | |
| But I can repeat some of the things that happened when he was alive. | ||
| He left Halliburton, and of course he'd come into the Bush administration. | ||
| And then, of course, 9-11 hit. | ||
| And they had to blame somebody. | ||
| I mean, they knew that it was certain Muslim factions in the Middle East. | ||
| But then all of a sudden, he started talking about weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein. | ||
| And then he had Colin Powell go in front of the UN with them cartoon characters on cardboard. | ||
| I mean, they didn't even have the actual photo showing these trucks and everything with the weapons of gas, poisonous gas and stuff. | ||
| And then that pushed the American people over the uh top and and in supporting the war. | ||
| Now as it turns out, there were no weapons of mass destruction. |