Former Vice President Dick Cheney dies
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The former vice president, a hard-charging conservative who was a leading advocate for the US invasion of Iraq, died at age 84.
Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at age 84.