Cheney may have had a PREVIOUS hunting 'incident.'

[Octafish]

Word is that Sneer isn't too handy with personal weaponry or weapons of most any kind, mass destruction included. From Madsen:

WMR has learned that this incident is not the first involving Cheney and hunting accidents. According to informed sources on Maryland's Eastern Shore, two years ago Cheney was shooting at ducks from a duck blind in Trappe, a Maryland Eastern shore town where former Secretary of State James Baker III maintains a residence. The sources reveal that Cheney nearly accidentally shot half of his hunting party and Secret Service detail. Eyewitnesses to the Maryland duck hunting incident claim that Cheney is "trigger happy" and a "maniac with a gun."

Cheney has since purchased a vacation home in St. Michael's on the Eastern Shore where he often hunts on weekends and extended stays.

SOURCE:

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

PS:

To Whomever sent me these Valentine's Day things:

I LOVE YOU.

-- Octafish



The rest of you. I love you, too!

Thanks for giving a damn about what's happening.

[tularetom]

1. Maybe it's good he got all them deferments

He could have wiped out half the officer corps in Nam.

[Octafish]

3. It's a good bet.

Here's what Sneer, Smirk and their heavily armed toad swarm have in mind for free thinking types:



Had to explain "fragged" to a co-worker the other day.

The guy thought it was a term from some video game.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. I have a feeling he's going to be a lonely hunter in the future

Who in their right mind would want to go on a hunt with a person known to have almost taken out a fellow hunter before?

[Octafish]

4. Everything he touches, he destroys.

For Jerry Ford, Cheney (with Rummy) helped cover-up the CIA murder of Dr. Frank Olson, a CIA scientist with integrity.

http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Contents.html

Good background:

Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and the Manchurian Candidate

by Maureen Farrell

"I am writing this from Frederick, Maryland. I've just been filming, for Channel 4, a press conference in which the son of a CIA officer who died in suspicious circumstances presented his evidence that vice-president Dick Cheney and defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld were, in 1975, when part of the Gerald Ford administration, involved in a cover-up of the events surrounding his father's death. The press conference was due to have been two weeks ago, but when the son, Eric Olson, called the New York Times to invite them, they said, "Whoa! Do you really want to release such complex information to a bunch of journalists who'll probably screw it up? Let us do it properly instead."

I must try this ruse sometime. It worked on Olson. He postponed the press conference. The New York Times finally called him and said, "We missed Watergate because we thought it was just a small, unimportant break-in." What they seemed to mean was they believed his evidence but they couldn't decide if it was a huge, government-toppling White House cover-up of a murder, or a small, unimportant White House cover-up of a murder, the kind of stuff that doesn't mean much.. . "

-- Jon Ronson, The Guardian, August 17, 2002

In the summer of 2003 (back when President Bush was renouncing the use of torture ) author Douglas Valentine reminded us why blind trust in any government official or agency has historically been a bad idea. "The war on terror, and its ‘homeland security’ counterpart are flip sides of the same coin," he wrote. "They are the same ideology applied to foreign and domestic policy. But like CIA agent Alden Pyle in The Quiet American, their evil intention is wrapped in a complex matrix of transparent lies."

Drawing uncomfortable conclusions about the Bush administration’s secret agenda, Valentine also pointed to Miramax's Vietnam-era love story which had been put on hold following Sept. 11 due to its "anti-American" content -- a content that wasn’t so much anti-American as anti-CIA. "Horrendous acts were, for propaganda purposes, often made to look as if they had been committed by the enemy," Valentine wrote, of the CIA’s brutal underhanded activities that both the Quiet American and history underscore.

More than 40 years ago, another film spawned similar qualms. United Artists was nervous about releasing The Manchurian Candidate because, as screen writer George Axelrod put it, "They didn't want to make it because they thought that it was un-American."

A wildly imaginative political thriller which sprang from Richard Condon’s 1959 best-selling novel, The Manchurian Candidate is the story of a brainwashed military veteran who unwittingly becomes a programmed assassin to further the political ambitions of his cold and manipulative mother. "Ironically," the Washington Post revealed, "it was a phone call from President Kennedy -- made at Sinatra's request -- that persuaded Arthur Krim, then head of United Artists and also the national finance chairman of the Democratic Party, to change his mind and start production.

(An additional irony, which may be more curious than telling but is entirely in keeping with the tone of the film, is that it was Frankenheimer who drove Robert Kennedy to the hotel in California the night he was assassinated.)"

CONTINUED...

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/05/far04017.html

Fight team. Fight.

[cliss]

5. Cheney's hunting days are over -

I've read that it's the only thing he really enjoys - shooting "easy to catch" game.

Well, that's over and done with. If he ever tries it again, he'll be hounded by reporters.

[Moderator]

6. locking

Wayne Madsen is not an acceptable source for DU.