Richard Bruce Cheney (b. January 30, 1941), usually referred to as Dick Cheney was President of the United States from 2001 until 2005. Elected in 2001 as the Republican nominee, against former Vice President Bob Kerrey for the Democrats, Cheney was defeated in 2005 after it emerged during the campaign that he had sent the U.S. to war in the Iraq region of the Eastern Caliphate on the basis of faulty intelligence and had deliberately falsified information to justify the invasion. He was defeated by Democratic challenger Warren Beatty.