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By Carnacki
02/17/2006 12:23:27 AM EST

Dick Cheney told Faux New's Brit Hume that shooting his <s>close friend</s&gt acquaintance was "one of the worst days" of his life.

I'm sure it was. The thought that he might -- no matter how remotely -- be held accountable for killing a man probably made him feel terrible.

Not for Mr. Whittington, of course, but for himself.

A dark moment indeed in the life of Dick Cheney, that momentary flash of guilt. Caused one of the worst days of his life.

Fortunately I've been able to ascertain through my connections at NSA what are among

Other dark days in the life of Dick Cheney:



      1. The day Friends went off the air.


      2. Hulk Hogan loses the heavyweight title to Nature Boy Ric Flair.


      3. Scooter Libby called before the grand jury.


      4. Watching George Bush's performance in the first debate against John Kerry.


      5. Found out the woman he had been leering at and putting the moves on was his daughter's girlfriend.


      6. Hulk Hogan joins the NWO.


      7. His 12th heart attack. That day really sucked.


      8. His wedding night with Lynne. She discovered she was more interested in writing lesbian sex scenes for her novel. He discovered she did not want to take a bath in ice-cold water and then lie on the bed perfectly still so it would be like necrophilia.


      9. The day his father caught him in the barn with the goat.


      10. The day the military refused to transfer the prisoners at Camp X-Ray to a Texas ranch for him to shoot unarmed men.



I'm a bad man.


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Never hunt while drunk and at sunset and have a careless disregard for human life unless you're a filthy rich, corrupt old bastard and in Texas.

I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exhaltation. Sherlock Holmes.

by Carnacki on 02/17/2006 12:24:41 AM EST

It's nice to know how compassionate (none / 1)
our five time deferment VP is---isn't it?

I guess all the deaths he has caused around the
world couldn't possibly be as significant as
mistaking another old white rich guy for a quail.

I'm hoping for more terrible days in his life---the day he is impeached, the day he is found guilty of war crimes, the day he is found guilty of letting oil executives write our energy bill, and the day Halliburton stock goes to $1..

If you are going to skate on thin ice, you might as well dance.

by zesty grapher on 02/19/2006 11:59:37 AM EST

And get a load of this...um...gem: (none / 1)
In wrapping up the week's big media event, Joe Klein of Time magazine (online edition) muses over VP Dick Cheney's fragile post-buckshot state of mind. Cheney's Thousand-Yard Stare: Did the Vice President's behavior exhibit a disdain for accountability or a reaction to emotional trauma? compares the VP to a battle-weary combat veteran. Well, we at least now know why it was Mr. Whittington who apologized to the Cheney family for all they'd been through the past week and not vice versa:

He seemed stunned, uncertain for once. And the haunted look in his eyes reminded me of what soldiers in Vietnam used to call the Thousand-Yard Stare--the paralytic shock that comes from seeing the impact that even low-caliber weaponry can have on human flesh. ...[Y]es, the Vice President's behavior did seem to be another manifestation of his well-known disdain for accountability. But Cheney's stubborn diffidence may have been something else entirely: a consequence of the incoherence and confusion that come with emotional trauma, as well as an understandable desire to protect oneself and one's friends from the ravening horde at a moment of personal anguish.

The possibility of vice-presidential anguish was barely mentioned by most commentators at first. Cheney is a tough customer; Oprahfied "sharing" isn't his way. But then, there he was, with that haunted look in his Fox News interview, saying, "[T]he image of him falling is something I'll never be able to get out of my mind. I fired, and there's Harry falling ..." Hunting had given him "great pleasure" in the past, but he wasn't so sure now. In fact, he sounded a lot like the combat veterans I've spoken with over the years, for whom the living nightmare of firing a weapon under questionable circumstances is a constant theme.


So, what do you think?

How far does Joe Klein have his arse stuck up the VP's behind here? Feel free and email Time your answer.

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by ilona on 02/19/2006 09:47:17 PM EST

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