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Dick Cheney and the twilight of the neocons

Former Vice President Dick Cheney was at the center of foreign policy debates in every Republican administration from Gerald Ford to George W. Bush, but virtually no one in today's GOP would openly associate themselves with his worldview.

The big picture: Cheney, who died Monday at 84, will be remembered as one of the driving forces behind the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. He continued to insist the invasion was "the right thing to do" as recently as 2018, but a vanishingly small number of active politicians from either party agree.


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