It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, "This is not a criminal act," not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war.

In 1991 the Somali Civil War drew the world's attention. According to General Colin Powell Cheney "had become a glutton for information with an appetite we could barely satisfy. serviceman the United States invasion of Panama began under Cheney's direction.

House of Representatives representing Wyoming's At-large congressional district from 1979 to 1989; he was reelected five times briefly serving as House Minority Whip in 1989. He was an early proponent of the Iraq War and defender of the Administration's record on terrorism. "
In 2011 Cheney publiDick Cheneyd his memoir In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir written with daughter Liz Cheney.