Ish, I'm curious about the reasoning processes of loyalists faced with troublesome facts.
In view of the information that's coming out, are you STILL ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that:
*Cheney was entirely free of fault and it was all the other guy's mistake?
*100 pellets in Whittington would have been from an up close shot and would have killed him on the spot?
*The pellet or pellets in Whittington's heart came from a pellet which migrated from a vein in his neck as opposed to a pellet fired into, or near to, his heart?
If you are, then you should never, ever trust yourself to make an objective, unemotional, unbiased decision based on simple facts.
Do you think you'd feel the same way if Kerry had pulled around and shot some old man under the same circumstances?
Surely you can see that it would be "Swift Boat Two" for Kerry under exactly these facts and that all the normal news sources you favor would be screaming bloody murder and castigating Kerry for not only the shooting but the "coverup" while speculating endlessly about what he "had to hide."
I don't see it through such one way lenses. Both men were at fault but Cheney pulled the trigger and he's most at fault. My dad taught me that the man with the gun is responsible for his shot. Where the target is in plain sight and where the shooter isn't sure where his companions are, he doesn't shoot unless he's SURE it's a safe shot. This seems crystal clear where foregoing the shot simply means a tiny quail lives to get flushed in front of another hunter on another day.
The medical information indicates that Whittington took a lot of pellets. That may well mean that he was closer than 30 meters but they didn't kill him, at least not yet.
Most of the medical Drs offering careful opinions are saying that the pellet or pellets that are interfering with the function of his heart were shot into or near the heart. If they migrated it was from someplace near the heart,, not some vein in the neck.
And the amount of phone calls in the hours of delay, along with the method of revealing this to the public, seem to indicate that a lot of "getting our story straight and into the hands of friendly conduits" went on, and that's still continuing.
Like the success or failure of the Iraqi adventure, our success in fighting terrorism, whether there's incompetency in the Bush Administration, whether we torture and whether killing for demcocracy will magically fix the Middle East, it is what it is, regardless of what true believers want it to be. ED |
