I se fa’amatalaga mai lona ‘āiga, na maliu o ia mai le nimonia ma ni a’afiaga i lona fatu.
E maliu nei Dick Cheney ua 84 tausaga lona soifua.
E sili ona manatuaina o ia i le taimi o le osofa'iga terorisi i le World Trade Centre i NY ma le Pentagon i Washington, ma taua na sosoo mai ai ina ua osofa'ia e Amerika atunu’u o Afghanistan ma Iraq.
O Dick Cheney na amata galue i le vaega 'upufai a le Republicans i le 1968 - i lalo o peresitene Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, ma George Bush, ae le'i tofia o ia e George W. Bush o lana running mate i palota o le 2001.
O loo tuua'ia e nisi Dick Cheney i le osofa'iga o Iraq i ni molimau lē fa’avaea, e aofia ai le gaosia o a’upega o taua - weapons of mass destruction.
Na saunoa Professor Scott Lucas o le American Studies Department i le University College i Dublin, o le talitonuga o Dick Cheney, e sili ona puipuia Amerika pe a fa’aaogā lona malosi i isi atunuu i le lalolagi.
O le talitonuga lena na faavae ai le fa’ai’uga e osofa'ia Iraq ma Afghanistan
"But the idea was, is that America had to defend itself by intervening abroad when there was a clear threat to international security and Iraq posed that threat in the early 1990s. In 2001, that wasn't the case. It wasn't the case that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. He was a horrible, horrible man, especially to Iraqis. But it was others who were involved in 9/11. And Cheney and Rumsfeld used that as a pretext to go beyond the Reagan tradition of foreign policy. America had to be seen as the superpower, the only superpower. And in a way, they had to do it beyond the international system."
Ae ui i le tele o tausaga o tautua i le vaega 'upufai a le Republican Party, e le'i nanāina le tete’e o Dick Cheney i le peresitene Donald Trump.
I palota na te'a nei i le 2024, na lagolagoina ai e Dick Cheney le sui tauva o le Democratic Party, Kamala Harris, ma ia tauanauina tagata e 'aua le palota ia Donald Trump.
"In our nation's 246-year history, there has never been an individual who was a greater threat to our Republic than Donald Trump. He tried to steal our last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him."
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