Whittington May Die - Will Cheney Apologize Then?

[NightOwwl]

I think Mr. Whittington is much worse off than we are being told.

This is a horrific injury. If he doesn't die anytime soon, for the rest of his life he will be facing a hellish experience. I mean, c'mon, can you imagine living the rest of your life with 100's of pellets lodged in your body and face. Let alone a 78 year old man who, let's face it, is not healthy as someone half his age.

Meanwhile, Cheney hangs out in his dungeon while his minions (Alan Simpson, I'm looking at you) spread the talking point that it was all Whittington's fault. My god Cheney hasn't even visited his victim in the hospital.

Why couldn't this have happened the other way around?

[niyad]

1. NO-=-we don't want either of those monsters, chimperor or chinstrap,

becoming a martyr or "victim", no matter how innocent the circumstances. can you imagine what would be happening now if chinstrap had been the one shot?

[benburch]

2. No, I think he is exactly as bad off as they have said.

Which is not good at all.

[NightOwwl]

3. According to doctors he is talking & joking.

I have a hard time believing that.

[tuvor]

5. The ICU's the knee-slappingest wing of any hospital!

Didn'tcha know?

[CrazyOrangeCat]

7. No, I don't believe that garbage.

Even if he is sentient and on his way to recovery . . . that old guy is sore!!!

It would be like trying to laugh after having one's wisdom teeth taken out--probably ten times worse.

They are such ridiculously bad liars!

[benburch]

14. So was my mom shortly before she died. nt

[JI7]

4. we probably only found out because he might die

if the injuries were not serious we probably never would have found out he shot him.

[NightOwwl]

6. They came right out and admitted they held off on telling the press...

because they were waiting to find out the extent of his injuries.

They had to get their stories straight, which is why they made police wait 15 hours before speaking to them.

[FreedomAngel82]

8. Why else are they spinning it so fast?

[autorank]

9. "They don't care because they don't have to. They're above the law"

...me, autorank February 15, 2006

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[cliss]

10. If Whittington dies,

there will not be an apology. Cheney: "I don't do apologies". Cheney will wait, as he always has, until the storm blows over. "They all blow over", says Dick.

He should know. He's put in a lot of decades in public 'service'. He'll wait and gauge the public's reaction. If worse comes to worse and WHittington dies, he'll send out Lynne Cheney. Or maybe one of his daughters. Maybe Beam Me Up Scotty to give a rambling, sympathetic speech.

But no apology.

[NightOwwl]

12. After all the lies this administration has told....

I think this is the one that will do them in.

Even the ignorant and uninformed can see that Cheney has no soul.

[kestrel91316]

11. Once the many tiny wounds heal, he may very well be just fine.

My grandmother and her sister were accidentally shot with a shotgun in about 1920, and they recovered fine. Gramie used to show me her pellets when I was little - she had some under the skin of her face that you couldn't see, but could feel, and they creeped me out. But they were painless once the wounds healed up. The body just walls them off with a little fibrous tissue.

[PsN2Wind]

13. Alan Simpson out there

telling how in Wyoming when they get blasted by a shotgun, they just "cowboy up", daub some Bag Balm on it, have a drink and a laugh and get back to killing things.

[radfringe]

15. he's had since Saturday to make a public statement

and as of this morning he's still hunkered in his bunker.

two statements THROUGH THRID PARTIES have been issued - but nothing from Cheney's lips

His window of opportunity to publically express any sentiment of regret, apology (or whatever you want to call it) has long passed

I know alot of people think we're off track in following this story, and there are more important issues to focus on -- HOWEVER, between Cheney's silence, and the White House's efforts to "move on" is making things worse for them.

It brings their obsession of silence and secrets to the forefront. It also shows they refuse to be held accountable and to take responsibility for ANYTHING.

Think about all the scandals, questions and other issues they have ducked, swept under the rug, and hidden behind executive priviledge.

In any of these - there are 4 excuses they have used:

1. can't talk about it - executive priviledge
2. can't talk about it - national security
3. can't talk about it - on-going investigation
4. NOT OUR FAULT

Meanwhile... where's bush* on all of this? Cheney is VP, and bush* is supposedly the president - yet bush* is acting more like a subordinate to Cheney - so who is really in charge?

[Moderator]

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