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Politics : Cheney Shoots Ducks (and a person) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (37)	2/13/2006 10:03:18 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 1307

Hi Party Time and welcome back!...according to my republican NRA member boyfriend, Cheney's accident was no accident, it was "negligence." Absolutely NO excuse. Don't forget, if any of us has the op to say: "F*ck you, Mr. Cheney." be sure to preface it with, "Don't shoot, but..."

To: PartyTime who wrote (37)	2/13/2006 10:04:50 AM
From: Mighty_Mezz	Respond to of 1307

The Nation -- Sure, it's been fun joking about the fact that Dick Cheney obtained five -- count them, five -- deferments to avoid serving in the military during the Vietnam War. Sure, its been amusing to recount his limp claim that the man who served as George Bush I's Secretary of Defense had "other priorities" than taking up arms in defense of his country. Sure, it was a laugh when the chief cheerleader for the war in Iraq mocked John Kerry for having actually carried a weapon in a time of war. But it is time to stop laughing at Dick Cheney's expense. Now that the vice president has accidentally shot and wounded a companion on a quail hunt at the elite Texas ranch where rich men play with guns -- spraying his 78-year-old victim, er, friend, in the face and chest with shotgun pellets and sending the man to intensive care unit of a Corpus Christi hospital -- it has become clear that Cheney was doing the country a service when he avoided service. The man Cheney misstook for a quail, millionaire attorney Harry Whittington, was in plain sight, wearing a bright orange vest at the time the vice president blasted him. U.S. troops had enough problems in Vietnam without letting a trigger-happy incompetent like Dick Cheney start shooting things up from behind the lines. Those deferments were well and wisely issued. news.yahoo.com