Dick Cheney’s legacy is a shadow that still darkens American history. As vice president, he orchestrated the invasion of Iraq on false intelligence, dragging the nation into a needless war that claimed countless lives and destabilized the Middle East. Under his direction, the U.S. descended into what he proudly called “the dark side” — a policy of brutal torture masquerading as “enhanced interrogation.”
Innocent men were abducted, imprisoned, and tortured in Guantánamo Bay, Bagram, and Abu Ghraib — victims of a system that traded justice for vengeance. Cheney never apologized. Instead, he defended waterboarding, secret prisons, and indefinite detention as tools of patriotism.
His unapologetic abuse of power and contempt for accountability laid the moral groundwork for the rise of Donald Trump — another leader who glorifies cruelty and dismisses truth. From Iraq’s ruins to America’s political decay, Cheney’s fingerprints remain. History must remember that the corrosion of democracy begins not with a single act of tyranny, but with the arrogance of men who believe they are above the law.
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