{"id":139734,"date":"2025-11-04T12:03:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139734"},"modified":"2025-11-04T12:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:03:32","slug":"dick-cheney-architect-of-iraq-war-and-biden-era-trump-critic-dies-at-84united-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139734","title":{"rendered":"Dick Cheney, architect of Iraq war and Biden-era Trump critic, dies at 84United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostDick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarising vice-presidents in US history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at age 84.<br \/>\nThe quietly forceful Cheney served father and son presidents, leading the armed forces as defence chief during the Persian Gulf War under George H.W. Bush before returning to public life as vice-president under Bush\u2019s son, George W. Bush.<br \/>\nCheney was, in effect, the chief operating officer of the younger&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3331518\/dick-cheney-iraq-war-architect-and-ex-us-vice-president-dies-84?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostDick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarising vice-presidents in US history and a leading&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}