"Wayne Knight" wrote in message
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rw wrote:

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight tried to cover it up:


Doesn't sound like a cover up to me and I really would not expect them
to call a press conference announcing the vice president screwed up,

Cover up or not, yet another exercise in preternatural stupidity. When Dick
Cheney shoots somebody and the news breaks more than a day later.....and
then only because someone else found out about it and announced it.....how
can the thought of cover up NOT occur?

but I got a kick out of this line from the article you linked:

"White House aides can be expected to say that the Vice President did
not shoot Whittington, which suggests a bullet, but rather sprayed him
with birdshot, a type of ammunition made up of tiny pieces of lead or
steel,"

Whoever came up with this needs to work in marketing, not political
spin.

It does sort of help one to understand better the rationale for the current
campaign in Iraq. Turns out that we've just been spraying the
place.......pest control. Who can object to that?

Wolfgang