Dick Cheney may be gone, but the wars he waged are forever

After news broke that former US Vice President Dick Cheney, 84, died on Tuesday of pneumonia and cardiac disease, tributes came pouring in from across the political and media spectrums.

Establishment Democrats, including Bill Clinton and Kamala Harris, praised Cheney - a die-hard Republican - on a life well lived.

Clinton extolled Cheney's "unwavering sense of duty", while Harris called him a "devoted public servant" who gave "so much of his life to the country he loved".