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Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.
Dick Cheney
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Dick Cheney
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 30
Autobiographer
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Former Vice President Of The United States
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Richard Bruce Cheney
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Europeans know that their great experiment in building peace, unity and prosperity cannot survive as a privileged enclave, surrounded on its outskirts by breeding grounds of hatred and fanaticism.
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