His beloved wife of 61 years, Lynne, his daughters, Liz and Mary, and other family members were with him as he passed,” the statement said, adding that he died due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease. Aljazeera reported.
“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 said.
However, Cheney was a highly divisive political figure for many in the US and around the globe, having pushed the boundaries of the vice presidency to lead the Bush administration’s so-called “war on terror” and its misdirected invasion of Iraq.
Cheney was among the most outspoken of Bush administration officials warning, in the run-up to the 2003 conflict, of the danger from Iraq’s alleged stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. No such weapons were ever found.
Despite this, Cheney has insisted that the invasion was the right decision, based on the intelligence at the time, and noting that it led to the removal of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from power
