Former Vice President Dick Cheney, widely viewed as the primary architect of America’s post-9/11 wars, died Monday at 84 from pneumonia and cardiac complications.

Despite investigations showing Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction, Cheney remained unapologetic, saying the invasions were “the right thing to do.”

Richard B. Cheney, the former vice president of the United States who was the architect of the nation’s longest war as he plotted President George W. Bush’s thunderous global response to the 9/11 terror attacks, has died.

Vexed by heart trouble for much of his adult life, Cheney died Monday night due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, according to a statement from his family. He was 84.

To supporters and detractors alike, Cheney was widely v

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