Long before Donald Trump arrived on the political scene to warp all international diplomacy and finance around him, there were US administrations creating greater calamities. George W Bush’s first government, from 2001 to 2005, was one of them. Dubya wasn’t a sleazy grifter or a weapons grade narcissist. But on his watch the United States did, with its war on Iraq, bring chaos to the Middle East and spark an explosion of Islamic terrorism for which we’re still paying the price.

Cheney was a man devoid of empathy, who used US superpower to slay hundreds of thousands of people and smash things

Of course, the Iraq invasion wasn’t his idea. The ‘brains’ behind the disaster were the neocons. And their leader, America’s torturer-in-chief and the real power behind the Oval Office desk was vice

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