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David Smith in Washington

Tears and solemnity at Cheney funeral – but no memorial for those killed in Iraq

People sit in pews at cathedral
George Bush and Joe Biden at Dick Cheney’s funeral at the Washington national cathedral. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

You suspected that Maga had not conquered the Washington National Cathedral when Bill Kristol was spotted at a men’s urinal conversing with Chris Wallace. You knew it for sure when James Carville, Anthony Fauci and Rachel Maddow were seen sitting close to one another in the nave.

The funeral of the 46th US vice-president, Dick Cheney, who died earlier this month aged 84, was a throwback to a less raucous and rancorous time. Ex-presidents and vice-presidents, Democratic and Republican, made small talk, but Donald Trump, who spent Thursday crying treason and calling for Democrats to be put to death, and his deputy JD Vance were not invited.

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