Why do YOU think Cheney&Co waited over 24 hrs?

[ShockediSay]

I think they were trying to find a way to pack the guy off to Gitmo as some kind of enemy combatant.

[gWbush is Mabus]

1. to hope nobody finds out, get thier stories straight, and sober up

[blm]

2. I think they are having affairs and needed to wash the sheets.

How likely that they would be at a woman's ranch over VALNTINE'S weekend?

[newyawker99]

23. I am thinking they are hiding an affair too.

[wakeme2008]

3. booze.... IMHO nt

[DanCa]

4. I think they wanted to keep it off the Sunday morning talk shows.

Plus it would eek out all the other bad news thats plauging this incompentent administration. I mean didn't the Katrina report come out today?

[Rick Myers]

15. Booze!!!

[ShockediSay]

21. Aren't Drs req'd to report gunshot wounds immediately to police

for things like breathalizer tests?

[Punkingal]

5. To get the story straight..

Tie up all the loose ends, make all the money transfers, etc.

[bryant69]

6. Ha. That's a little Naive.

That's not nearly evil enough for this administration. My guess is that they were waiting till the Festival of the Dark Lord Madiconius, to sacrifice him in a a ceremony so evil that to even hear if it is to go mad.

Bryant
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[hobbit709]

11. He needed to sober up

so he could pass the drug/alcohol test required in a hunting accident.

[bryant69]

22. Probably because any drug/alcohol test would have revealed

that he had been drinking human blood as republicans are known to do.

Bryant
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[Mnemosyne]

7. They were waiting to see if Whittington would live and

the dick needed to sober up. IMO

[Greybnk48]

8. I believe they had been drinking

That's one option. The other is that, a blast at thirty feet could easily have killed the man, and he was airlifted out. It may have been the case that they feared he would not survive (carotid ateries being where they are).

[Webster Green]

9. Thirty feet?, or thirty yards?

I keep hearing both numbers reported from various sources, as if they are sort of interchangable.

[Greybnk48]

13. This a.m. the concensus seems to be 30 feet

but I'm getting this from reading other DU threads. You're right, it makes a huge difference.

[Vinnie From Indy]

10. Cheney likes watching his prey squirm for a bit

If he had had his druthers, he would have pulled a "Vlad the Impaler" routine on ol' man Whittington.

[Indy Lurker]

12. Waiting to see the guy's condition

[Norquist Nemesis]

14. Because HE didn't think it mattered

Cheney, "So, I shot somebody. Big deal! It was his fault for walking into the line of fire! Go Fuck Yourself."

[Oilwellian]

16. It's this administration's standard MO

Everything is secret with the Bush crime family.

[foreverdem]

17. Because they're lying

Because it didn't really happen the way it's being reported to us and they needed the time to get the story straight on what bs they were going to tell.

[murray hill farm]

18. All of the above..and probably more!

i keep wondering if there were additional injuries...and i keep wondering if dogs were hurt in this "accident", but i am sure the wait was for the benefit of those involved..and the fall out of it was the lesser of two evils.

[hexola]

19. I think the fellow was injured much more severly than they are letting on.

They could quell a lot controversy if they would just produce the victim...

[ShockediSay]

20. To find Karl Rove to find a link to Osama Bin Laden n/t