Dick Cheney Dead | Drudge Retort

Tuesday, November 04, 2025

Dick Cheney, America's most powerful modern vice president and chief architect of the "war on terror," who helped lead the country into the ill-fated Iraq war on faulty assumptions, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 84.

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" Politico (@politico.com) Nov 4, 2025 at 6:36 AM

Liz Cheney became the target of MAGA abuse just minutes after the death of her father, Dick, was announced.[image or embed]
" The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast.bsky.social) Nov 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM

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Too late.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-11-04 06:29 AM

RIP President Cheney. For someone somewhere the long nightmare is over.

#2 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-11-04 06:53 AM

Wrong...true evil never dies.

#3 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-11-04 08:06 AM

I remember when his company poisoned our military with contaminated drinking water in the Iraq war he started to get at the oil. archive.thinkprogress.org

Let's not forget the soldiers that were electrocuted in the showers either or the ones went to a landfill instead of a proper burial. www.nbcnews.com

Good times.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-11-04 08:09 AM

Well...if you can't say something nice, don't say nothin' at all...

(fuggin -------)

Oops.

#5 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-11-04 08:27 AM

#6 | Posted by qcp at 2025-11-04 08:39 AM

Fatfry in WY tonight... lest we fergit...

Reagan proved deficits don't matter.
Dick Cheney

Good riddance pig... you lost two wars... and you still got paid.

#7 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-11-04 08:48 AM

This thread ought to be better than the Falwell thread form years ago.

#8 | Posted by HanoverFist at 2025-11-04 08:54 AM

Sad that he never was charged with war crimes.

#9 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-11-04 08:59 AM

Only 84? I thought he was that old back in the 2000s.

I figured Sauron was cool with him keeping the ring for a while.

#10 | Posted by jpw at 2025-11-04 09:03 AM

He showed us what a Vice President was supposed to be. How to actually do a job and have power and matter in the 2nd position. To be able to get something done. 100 times better than "Heels up" Harris, a DEI hire who did NOTHING in the position.

RIP sir..

#11 | Posted by boaz at 2025-11-04 09:09 AM

Cause of death: blogs.mtdv.me

#12 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-11-04 09:11 AM

The sun seemed to be shining a little bit brighter this morning when I woke up.

Now I know why.

#13 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2025-11-04 09:12 AM

Sad that he never was charged with war crimes.

#9 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-11-04 08:59 AM | Reply

You have Obama to "thank" for that. Just sayin

#14 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-04 09:14 AM

"100 times better than "Heels up" Harris, a DEI hire who did NOTHING in the position."

"She did a lousy job, and she didn't really do anything" reminds me of "the food here is awful, and there's so little of it!" complaint.

#15 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-11-04 09:21 AM

100 times better than "Heels up" Harris, a DEI hire who did NOTHING in the position.

Shocker.

Boaz has nothing but praise for the IG constitution shredder.

It's almost as if he's an anti-American mooch.

#16 | Posted by jpw at 2025-11-04 09:22 AM

Where is the love? Are you forgetting he was reformed into "Elder Statesman" status when he became anti-Trump?

#17 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-11-04 09:27 AM

"Sad that he never was charged with war crimes."

I was never really a fan of his, but c'mon, does anyone really think that a former president would be handcuffed over their response to what happened in 2001? Seems about as feasible as charging over half the country with war crimes. (Recall that over 70% of the public supported the Iraq war when it began.)

#18 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-11-04 09:28 AM

"Where is the love? Are you forgetting he was reformed into "Elder Statesman" status when he became anti-Trump?"

It seems everyone is forgetting that, including the Trumpers praising him in this thread.

"Oops." - Rick Perry

"Both sides." - Alexandrite, or somebody

#19 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-11-04 09:35 AM

One of the few people in this world who could have had Der Dotard killed with a phone call. I recall the 2000 debate with VP candidates with Cheney raised the word 'recession' and put the country into one, so he and W could get us out of it early in their administration. A good trick, and demonstration of his dark arts...

#20 | Posted by catdog at 2025-11-04 09:39 AM

Never was a fan, but I wish his family peace in the coming months as they grieve.

#21 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-04 09:46 AM

Where is the love? Are you forgetting he was reformed into "Elder Statesman" status when he became anti-Trump?

#17 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-11-04 09:27 AM | Reply | Flag:

They forget so quick.

#22 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-04 09:47 AM

Where is the love? Are you forgetting he was reformed into "Elder Statesman" status when he became anti-Trump?

Posted by visitor_ at 2025-11-04 09:27 AM | Reply

Sadly true.

#23 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-04 09:51 AM

They forget so quick.

#22 | Posted by lfthndthrds

No, your brain is just, as usual, full of bulls(*&.

#24 | Posted by jpw at 2025-11-04 10:22 AM

RIP sir..

#11 | Posted by boaz

Cheney messed up the Afghanistan war.

He lied us into the Iraq war and got millions of Iraqis killed and thousands of Americans killed all for his oil buddies.

In doing so, he blew up the national debt.

And Boaz thinks he was a better vice president than Harris...

This is your modern MAGAt.

#25 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-11-04 10:45 AM

Satan recalls his spawn back home.

#26 | Posted by 2020Rocks at 2025-11-04 10:51 AM

Well I don't have to wonder where he is spending the afterlife. What an evil man.

#27 | Posted by byrdman at 2025-11-04 10:53 AM

Dick Cheney on Donald Trump:

"Dick Cheney attacks Donald Trump as greatest threat to our republic'"

(2022)

"In our nation's 236-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump," said Cheney, who served as vice-president for two terms under George W Bush.

Cheney said: "He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him.

"He is a coward. A real man wouldn't lie to his supporters. He lost his election, and he lost big. I know it, he knows it, and deep down I think most Republicans know it."

www.theguardian.com

He was wrong a lot, but right at least once.
I just wish it was Trump that he shot in the face.
RIP (wherever)

#28 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-04 11:13 AM

"He lost his election, and he lost big. I know it, he knows it, and deep down I think most Republicans know it."

Narrator: In fact, most Republicans don't accept that Trump lost. Because deep down, most Republicans are fascists.

#29 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-04 11:18 AM

Every president does something illegal during the first couple weeks they're in office. All get away with it. President Cheney knew that.

#30 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-11-04 11:24 AM

how many dead Iraqis and American soldiers so that his company could make money off of the gulf war? Dick was responsible for more American deaths than Bin Laden.

#31 | Posted by bus_driver at 2025-11-04 11:26 AM

Everything you need to know to form an opinion about Dick Cheney is: Pat Tillman.

#32 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-04 11:27 AM

"In our nation's 236-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump," said Cheney,

A broken clock is right twice a day.

Still was an evil ass clown who killed millions to make money.

Mission Accomplish*tf**ed

#33 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-11-04 11:28 AM

"Where is the love?"

You tell us. How should we love him? Why should we love him?

Did you love him? Do you love him?

Tell us what love is. Think you can?

This should be interesting.

#34 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-11-04 11:29 AM

Cheney messed up the Afghanistan war.

Messed up?

Naw, he intentionally let Bin Laden escape because his -------- in the Saudi Royal family wanted it that way.

#35 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-11-04 11:29 AM

I'll save my sympathy for Scooter Libby ~~ not the coward who let him take the fall.

#36 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-11-04 11:44 AM

"In our nation's 236-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump," said Cheney,

^
That just shows how far loony left the W. administration was.
--JeffJ

#37 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-04 12:44 PM

Definitely not a fan. Nevertheless my best wishes go to those who are grieving and I hope he's at peace.

#38 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-04 12:46 PM

RIP sir..

#11 | Posted by boaz

Tens of thousands of US casualties including thousands of deaths for the low low price of $3 trillion. A true fiscal conservative.

#39 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-11-04 01:22 PM

McLean resident who helped engineer invasion of Iraq dies at 84

www.ffxnow.com

Bullseye.

#40 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-04 01:28 PM

This man sent my Soldiers and I to war, yet avoided the Vietnam War with draft deferments like Dummkopf Trumpf.

Look at the number of amputees the Iraq and Afghanistan wars created: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

#41 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-04 01:51 PM

Dick Cheney has reportedly shot Charlie Kirk in the face BY ACCIDENT while hunting Richard Nixon in hell. Cheney commented, " there's a new DICK in town!"

#42 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-11-04 03:02 PM

Though he was a war hawk, and all the associated lies and wrongdoing as VP, at least he redeemed himself a little by speaking out against Trump as a wannabe autocrat and for maintaining our democratic democracy.

#43 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-11-04 07:27 PM

Pure evil does die, who knew?

If there was no Dick Cheney there would have been no Donald Trump.

When Orange Adolf goes home to Satan, the whole world will rejoice.

#44 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-11-04 10:36 PM

AU @ #43

"spoke out against Trump"

Cheney didn't redeem himself. He was all for a unitary executive with George W. at the helm and himself as the power behind the throne. That changed only when the power structure changed in D.C.

I think he still believed in a unitary executive. Just not somebody who is as tacky as Trump.

#45 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-11-05 05:52 AM

Expect more protocol breaches from the Trumpf junta about lowering the flag and attending his funeral.

#46 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-05 06:52 AM

Serious lacking in social graces, Trump will find some disgusting way to show his disrespect.

However, I'm inclined to think Cheney's family will have a private ceremony rather than let the funeral be turned into one of Trump's political vaudeville acts.

Plus, Trump would probably fire any member of his administration who still had some respect for Dick Cheney.

#47 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-11-05 08:26 AM

The war monger meets his maker.

#48 | Posted by path at 2025-11-05 08:50 AM

a friend of mine who has never read this place wanted to know about scum sucking leftist trash
and how they respond to the death of gop like cheney.

I sent him this thread.

his response ?.. 100 %

#49 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-11-05 09:34 AM

#49 | Posted by shrimptacodan

You and your friend believe tens of thousands of casualties including thousands of deaths costing $3 trillion was a good thing?

#50 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-11-05 01:33 PM

Burn in Hell, Dick! An evil, racist, warmongering, liar!

#51 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-11-05 02:07 PM

Who here is old enough to remember when we progressives were called anti american terrorist lovers for opposing cheney's iraq war?

Progressives are always proven right in the end. Too bad they have no political power.

#52 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-11-05 02:37 PM

One of those obituaries I read with much more pleasure than others.

#53 | Posted by morris at 2025-11-05 03:44 PM

Also, does anybody here still remember the fake Bill of Sale for yellowcake?

That was all Cheney's doing.

#54 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-11-05 04:02 PM

"Yes, let the joyous news be spread! The wicked old Dick at last is dead!"

#55 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-11-05 04:40 PM

a friend of mine who has never read this place wanted to know about scum sucking leftist trash
and how they respond to the death of gop like cheney.

I sent him this thread.

his response ?.. 100 %

#49 | Posted by shrimptacodan

How did your friend feel about Cheney lying us into a war that burned 7 trillion dollars, destabilized the mideast, sent waves of refugees into europe, destroyed america's claim to moral superiority, while attacking anyone who resisted his war as anti american?

#56 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-11-05 05:06 PM

He now has power in Hell over every damned soul who died in his wars.

So it was a sideways career move, really.

#57 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2025-11-05 09:40 PM

Wait, does he become a force-ghost now?

What if we never get rid of him. Darth Vader threw the Emperor into an exploding nuclear reactor, and what happened...?

#58 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2025-11-05 09:45 PM

Darth Vader threw the Emperor into an exploding nuclear reactor, and what happened...?

Stephen Miller gets his Sith wings.

#59 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-05 10:19 PM

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