Dick Cheney, Influential Republican Vice President to George W. Bush, has died at the age of 84. Cheney has been credited as being the 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. Cheney served for two terms with Bush and remained a power player in Washington until his harsh criticism of President Donald Trump whom he labeled a “coward” and the “greatest-ever threat to the republic – left him largely ostracized from his party.