Former Vice President Dick Cheney died this month at 84. There was a great deal of making nice at his funeral. Understandable.

But it was Cheney, as much as anyone, who drew the U.S. into the Iraq War, which was a major foreign policy mistake and a humanitarian disaster. Promises of finding Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction were never realized, because the weapons never existed. Hopes that Iraq would transform to a democracy turned out to be a pipe dream that myopically ignored the nation’s theocratic history.

To advance his case for war, Cheney repeatedly lied, saying that Iraq was involved in the attacks of 9/11 although most of the hijackers had been Saudi and none were Iraqi, a fact that President George W. Bush and Cheney would conveniently discount.

A second persistent

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