Why did Mr. Cheney shoot an innocent man?
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Hunting is a terrible hobby
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Well, our vice president shot someone a few weeks ago.  There was no investigation.
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Were you hunting with Dick Cheney this weekend?\n\nHe said it was an accident.
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Just shows you Merciful God is.\n\nBut Dick Cheney still persists in spreading war, death, and torture in the world. So, On Judgement Day, he cant say that he didnt have more than enough chances..
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One way to look at it is to contrast something Bush did about 6 years ago. He was hunting with Karen Hughes (no he didn't pepper her with bird shot, unfortunately) and they killed some protected species od dear.\n\nThe first thing they did was go out and tell people, apologize and then thats the end of that.\n\nCheney didn't do that, nor would he talk to the Sheriff until the next day. They were drinking there, and Cheney is on various heart medications (although all the details are hidden too) which don't mix with alcohol.\n\nSo was he impared? Probably not, but we'll never know now.
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If the gun LOOKED REAL maybe they thought he was a threat and was going to shoot someone.  Stranger things HAVE happened.\n\nOR - if the police were democrats - they thought they were capturing the REAL Bin Laden in time for the Nov. elections.
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Why, are you thinking of going hunting with Cheney?
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Cheney's friend did not die, the same can not be said for Mary Joe Kapekne.  Before you go and say that was so long ago do not forget the rape case in the Kennedy coumpound in West Palm Beach, and just recently another Kennedy was popped driving under the influence and was given the same preferential treatment as good old Teddy. Let's not forget Jefferson who accepted a $100,000 bribe then gets upset because the FBI searched his office as part of the investigation. What Clinton did (&^%*# an intern) would have gotten any CEO of a US company fired, but nothing was done for that (remember the empeachment was for lying to the Grand Jury under oath). Another Dem smacks a security guard because he asked her for I.D... Let's face it ALL politicians get preferential treatment. That's the problem, if you want to say the other side gets more preferential treatment I could go on. If I really have to go on, there is just no sense of doing so.
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i want to clarify something about somethingsharper's response.  \n\nthere is nothing in the law that stipulates that a victim of a crime gets to decide whether to press charges.  criminal law exists in order to protect the entire society against acts that are deemed detrimental to the entire society.  as such, the only person who decides whether or not to press charges is the people's representative, the district attorney under whose jurisidiction the crime took place.\n\nhowever, quite often the district attorney will ask the victim of a crime if they wish to press charges, as a matter of expediency and to make the system a little more human.  for civil cases, on the other hand, these can be initiated by anyone at all, and they have total freedom in deciding whether to drop the case or not.\n\nHOWEVER there is no requirement that a district attorney not send a case to criminal court.  since district attorneys often move on to politics, and because an involuntary manslaughter charge against a standing vice president has enormous political ramifications, such a thing is not outside the realm of possibility.\n\nthat said, i think it's very VERY unlikely that any DA is going to press charges without the victim's consent here.  if that happens i think it's clearly an open-and-shut case in terms of the criminal court, but with such a powerful defendant i would be surprised if anything went by the book.  \n\naltogether i think the chances of cheney ending up in prison are extraordinarily low.
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Along with some other adjectives...immoral, corrupt, unscrupulous, unethical, greedy, evil...Darth Cheney's enjoying those Haliburton kickbacks I'm sure...unfortunately, he's also very powerful which scares people into submission...I mean, when was the last time you shot someone and they apologized to YOU...
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this is one of those times you need to just throw your political feelings out the window and keep an open mind.  add to it the fact that the story is not yet finished and it's hard to predict what will happen to mr. cheney, and (more importantly) harry whittington.  \n\ni don't know if there is any legal precedent for having a sitting vice president be removed from office for an offense like this.  mr. cheney is very unpopular with many people (including me) because of his political views, but i have to feel a little bit for the guy because it was, after all, an 'accident'.  i don't agree with the fact cheney hasn't addressed the issue... but saying 'impeach him' because of this incident is a knee-jerk reaction by those who didn't like him last week either.  i'm gonna read up more and see where this story leads before continuing...\n\nps::: well i see where mr. whittington was released from the hospital, so thankfully your scenario won't play out.  i am very curious though about the 'holes' in cheney's story.  \n\npps::: it's funny, at first i felt sorry for the vice-president, but now that whittington is ok, my feeling has turned more toward disgust with cheney.  i wonder why this is?
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lol, i think i might avenge the guy he shot. \n"Hey look a moose." (Pow) \n"My bad Dick." *goes over Cheney's body*\n"You bleeding? Yeah, you're bleeding..." \n\n=]
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he is a very extremely hateful person who thinks he is so self righteous. I do not think someone has tired to shoot him yet but at the rate he is going..someone is going shoot his dumba.ss and he will most certainly deserve it...
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No, that's not why he did it... It's because Cheney kept breaking them.\n\nGlass shards are dangerous, you know.
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As far as I know, it was Dick Cheney who shot his hunting partner (it WAS an accident) and they were in Texas. He has since had a heart attack because one of the pellets moved into his heart, but the doctors have said he will be ok and they are not going to operate.
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Why are you surprised? Cheney shot a lawyer. Edwards is a lawyer. They take care of their own.
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If it was an assassination attempt, then I would presume that Dick Cheney would assume the role of president, and more importantly, Commander-in-chief, under the 25th amendment.  \n\nImmediately afterwards, Dick and the joint chiefs and NSA/CIA/Homeland Security and others will try to figure out who is responsible for the hit.  Then I would assume that a bunch of missiles and bombs will start to drop on whoever was responsible.\n\nThat would be the scenario if it was a faction or a terrorist group.  If it was a sole gunman in, say, Germany, who just sniped the president, then that is a little more complicated, since I doubt they will bomb Germany for that.  (They might if he was in Pakistan, see the disparity).  If the secret service didn't kill the sniper/gunman then, there would be an allout search for him.  If they ever found him, he'd be extradited to the US, tried in the most publicized trial ever, and if convicted, he'd be executed.\n\nIn any case, if the president died, the VP is president, and they'd have to nominate someone to be the VP (probably a senator).