Injured vets tell pull Dick Cheney invitation over security demands

[Fleshdancer]

:wtf:


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/07/27/2008-07-27_injured_vets_tell_pull_dick_cheney_invit.html

The veep had planned to speak to the Disabled American Veterans at 8:30 a.m. at its August convention in Las Vegas.

His staff insisted the sick vets be sequestered for two hours before Cheney's arrival and couldn't leave until he'd finished talking, officials confirmed.

"Word got back to us ... that this would be a prerequisite," said the veterans executive director, David Gorman, who noted the meeting hall doesn't have any rest rooms. "We told them it just wasn't acceptable."

When Cheney spoke to the group in 2004, his handlers imposed the same stringent security lockdown, upsetting members, officials said.

Many of the vets are elderly and left pieces of themselves on foreign battlefields since World War II, and others were crippled by recent service in Iraq and Afghanistan. For health reasons, many can't be stuck in a room for hours

[TwilightGardener]

1. Same reaction as you...

:wtf:

[tekisui]

2. Paranoid War Criminal. Welcome to the rest of your life.

Until you are locked away forever.

[JuniperLea]

5. I can't wait for him to become a hermit...

Wearing tissue boxes on his feet and allowing his finger and toe nails to grow wild. I hope his paranoia rivets him to his bed in fear.

[Sal Minella]

6. The guilty flee when no one pursueth.

[Ilsa]

7. I hope the Darth Vader part of him (the defibrillator) has to stun him with a little jolt

every time he hears a door creak, whispering, a car backfire, a round chambered, a breech closed, etc.

To ask injured vets to hold their pee for hours before listening to him grind a speech out of the sneering corner of his piehole is inexcusable.

[malaise]

3. Nothing like Vets telling a draft dodger to

fuck off. Hey Vets :yourock:

[BOSSHOG]

4. Thank You

Lets look at the top of the republican party. A man who deserted his military (champagne) unit to avoid a drug test teamed with a man who actively sought five deferments to avoid military service. And my neighbors just can't figure out why I hate elected republicans with a passion.

[Ilsa]

8. I guess they are too stupid to comprehend the first two sentences of your post.

I'm sorry your neighbors are brain-dead, Boss.