Sorry (Not Sorry) to This Man, Who Died

"George W. Bush's puppet master will surely be remembered for renaming "torture" as "enhanced interrogation"; for pushing the unitary executive theory, the dangerous presidential theory that argues if the president does it, then it's legal, because they're the president; and for being Donald Rumsfeld's protégé, who the Atlantic once called "America's worst secretary of defense." And he'll most definitely be remembered for helping to create Guantanamo Bay;"

"But the most powerful vice president in U.S. history was also a meme-a meme that suggests that somewhere in the cosmos, there exists a parallel universe where a one-time oil executive didn't use a terrorist attack on the U.S. to harness the power of the White House to take us to war to make him and his buddies richer. In this universe, Cheney is just "this man," whom no one recognizes because he did nothing of significance."

Cheney's family announced his death at age 84 from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease. He renamed "torture" as "enhanced interrogation" and championed the unitary executive theory that treats presidential acts as inherently legal. He served as Donald Rumsfeld's protégé and helped create Guantanamo Bay. He expanded warrant-free government surveillance and pushed the U.S. into a $700 billion Iraq War that an estimated 200,000 Iraqi civilians and 4,492 U.S. servicemembers died in. Public perception also includes a meme imagining an alternate universe in which he remains anonymous, and a celebrity once said she did not recognize him.

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