In a recent online post, Bernie Sanders wrote,

Rep. Liz Cheney, daughter of Dick Cheney, yesterday attacked “the fraud of socialism.” Really? I wasn’t aware that it was “socialism” that lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and got us into a horrific war that we never should have started.

I wonder if Sanders had just seen Vice. Directed by Adam McKay (The Big Short), the film takes on former vice-president Dick Cheney’s monstrous life and legacy. We’re forcefully reminded of the outsized role Cheney (Christian Bale) played in bamboozling the American public about Saddam Hussein’s nonexistent weapons of mass destruction in order to get us to invade a country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks. But the war worked malevolent wonders in increasing the power of the presidency, allowing Cheney near-imperial control through his manipulation of gullible failson George W. Bush (Sam Rockwell), while earning billions for Cheney’s oil industry cronies as well as his own company, Halliburton.