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Wealthy war goblin Dick Cheney helped murder 4.7M people – that doesn’t change now he’s dead

Former US vice-president Dick Cheney has died a free man. That’s a great shame. Because former US vice-president Dick Cheney was an architect of the War on Terror. And the War on Terror both directly and indirectly killed a total of 4.5-4.7 million.

That’s just so far, because as recently as last month the Trump regime – itself a direct product of the War on Terror – was still citing Al Qaeda and the War on Terror narrative to kill people. That the latest victims are in south America changes nothing.

Cheney’s legacy if one of the forces that were unleashed by the US after 9/11, migrating and mutating to encompass the entire world. Cheney and his neoconservative cohort – to paraphrase investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill – made the world into a battlefield. And 25 years on, that battlefield is still burning.

Sycophants of global politics unite

What will happen now? I think we already know. Just as when another major war criminal, Henry Kissinger, died, the ruling class will snivel and gush about Cheney’s supposed merits. Here’s a centre named after his criminal accomplice George Bush praising him:

And here’s a quick overview of the slimy New York Times obituary which makes the man sound like some sort of benign philanthropist, and not a slavering imperialist:

Happy dolphin death memes

But you’re reading the Canary for a reason. And that reason is that we greet the deaths of war criminals properly. With happy dolphin memes:

As one US publication reminds us on this fabulous day, Cheney wasn’t just a driving force in the wars. He also championed torture and surveillance, for which his place in hell is triply assured:

X personality Caitlin Johnstone lamented that:

Dick Cheney died far too old and far too free. The fact that such monsters get to pass away in their eighties surrounded by loved ones instead of alone in a cage is an indictment of our entire civilization.

She added:

The hegemonic, hypermilitaristic ideology he promoted has become the baseline norm. New swamp monsters have stepped in to fill his shoes and advance the same murderous and tyrannical agendas he advanced, confident that they too will suffer no consequences and live long and comfortable lives in reward for their loyal service to the US empire.

Mild, if you ask me.

Also sad for Dick he just missed out on the accolade he’d craved all these years:

Goodbye from us, you goblin war-nonce

Others danced in joy. And why not? This is a man who pushed both the Iraq WMD lie and the Saddam-is-mates-with-Al-Qaeda falsehood:

While others said they had seen his name trending and were relieved to discover he was only dead:

There is more than a little sadness that Cheney died in relative comfort, unlike his victims who variously burned, starved, bled out or died of medical issues as a direct result of Cheney’s wars:

Zohran’s deep grief

While X user Zito wanted to add a new and – let’s be fucking honest – sorely needed anti-sucking up rule, which I think we can all get behind:

And there were rumours Cheney died rather than see a Muslim elected mayor of NY (GO ZOHRAN!!! etc etc):

Some people thought the correlation was even closer:

For his part, the NY mayoral hopeful was too shocked and sad by the news to comment:

But, rest assured Cheney will be revered where he is going:

So there you have it, another completely unaccountable 21st century horror gone down into the mud. There’s still a few to go – Bush and Blair chief among them. The most we can hope for is the war criminals of today don’t get to live quite so long, and quite so comfortably, as Cheney did.

Featured image via YouTube screenshot/CBS News and the Canary

By Joe Glenton

This post was originally published on Canary.