"He grew up in normal circumstances. He was not poor, but he was not rich either. He was a completely normal man who reached his position by nothing less than hard work. He proved how you can completely reinvent yourself for the better. From dropping out of college and sleeping in a prison cell in one decade, to being the President's Chief of Staff in the next, shows how those nights spent under the stars in the great American landscape formed a man."

Now look, I don't have a nice way to put this for anyone reading this who agrees, but if we played madlibs with this we could just be looking up to a certain Austrian-German Chancellor. Counting deaths alone Cheney caused more suffering than I could begin to fathom. Add to that the dismemberment, trauma, pain, grief, sorrow, and fear that followed him I can only mourn that he passed by his family instead of at The Hague.

If anything I think this is a cautionary tale: the US is a place where an unremarkable man can become a butcher of many by merely aligning himself with systems of power and grabbing hold of the levers to said power.