US vice president Dick Cheney predicted US forces would be "greeted as liberators" in Iraq. Photo: AP PHOTO

Dick Cheney, a driving force behind the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, was considered by presidential historians as one of the most powerful vice presidents in United States history.

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He died at the age of 84 on Monday from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, his family said in a statement on Tuesday.

The Republican - a former Wyoming congressman and secretary of defense - was already a major Washington DC player when then-Texas governor George W Bush ch

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