Dick Cheney, celebrated as a master Republican strategist but defined by the darkest chapters of America's "War on Terror," was honored Thursday in a funeral attended by Washington's elite that pointedly left out President Donald Trump. 

Cheney's career over half a decade reads like a catalogue of American statecraft, even as his long shadow over foreign policy -- as defense secretary during the Gulf War and as the 46th vice president under George W. Bush -- still divides the country. 

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