Vice President Dick Cheney Shoots A Lawyer
Robert Paul Reyes
February 14, 2006
Vice President Dick Cheney obtained five deferments to avoid serving in the military during the Vietnam War.
Only poor white boys and blacks died in Vietnam, the wealthy got their deferments -- no detours climbing the ladder of success for them.
But rich men love playing with their guns, and Cheney is an avid hunter. He loves spraying little bitty birds and elderly men with shotgun pellets.
President Bush and company mistook a milk truck in Iraq for a weapon of mass destruction and Dick Cheney mistook a 78-year old geezer wearing a bright orange vest for a quail.
Maybe it's a good thing Cheney didn't serve in Vietnam, a trigger-happy idiot like him would have mistaken an innocent peasant's straw hat for a tank and blasted him to kingdom come.
When rich men screw up others take the fall for them. Incredibly, blame was placed on Harry Whittington for getting in the way of Cheney's line of fire. Excuse me, but when you go hunting with a 78-year old coot, be prepared for him to do anything, including sticking his finger in the barrel of your gun just as you are ready to fire.
The Vice President peppered his friend with bird shot on Saturday, but Cheney's office did not disclose the shooting until Sunday afternoon, after the family that owns the ranch where the shooting took place told a Corpus Christi newspaper about it.
Granted shooting a lawyer is not the worst thing in the world, but Cheney should have immediately disclosed the accident.
Fortunately, Whittington has been moved out of intensive care at Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital in corpus Christi and is expected to make a full recovery.
Unfortunately, Cheney and Bush and the rest of the gang that couldn't shoot straight are still in charge of our foreign policy. How many more wars will these idiots get us into before they leave office?
Only poor white boys and blacks died in Vietnam, the wealthy got their deferments -- no detours climbing the ladder of success for them.
But rich men love playing with their guns, and Cheney is an avid hunter. He loves spraying little bitty birds and elderly men with shotgun pellets.
President Bush and company mistook a milk truck in Iraq for a weapon of mass destruction and Dick Cheney mistook a 78-year old geezer wearing a bright orange vest for a quail.
Maybe it's a good thing Cheney didn't serve in Vietnam, a trigger-happy idiot like him would have mistaken an innocent peasant's straw hat for a tank and blasted him to kingdom come.
When rich men screw up others take the fall for them. Incredibly, blame was placed on Harry Whittington for getting in the way of Cheney's line of fire. Excuse me, but when you go hunting with a 78-year old coot, be prepared for him to do anything, including sticking his finger in the barrel of your gun just as you are ready to fire.
The Vice President peppered his friend with bird shot on Saturday, but Cheney's office did not disclose the shooting until Sunday afternoon, after the family that owns the ranch where the shooting took place told a Corpus Christi newspaper about it.
Granted shooting a lawyer is not the worst thing in the world, but Cheney should have immediately disclosed the accident.
Fortunately, Whittington has been moved out of intensive care at Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital in corpus Christi and is expected to make a full recovery.
Unfortunately, Cheney and Bush and the rest of the gang that couldn't shoot straight are still in charge of our foreign policy. How many more wars will these idiots get us into before they leave office?
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