[Rhodes22-list] Joke -- CHENEY SAYS SHOOTING OF FELLOW HUNTER WAS BASED ON FAULTY INTELLIGENCE

[Peter Thorn]

Bill,

Lighten up on Cheney -- he only shot a lawyer.

PT

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From: "Bill Effros" <bill at effros.com>
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Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Joke -- CHENEY SAYS SHOOTING OF FELLOW HUNTER WAS
BASED ON FAULTY INTELLIGENCE


> *Breaking News
> *
>
>
> *CHENEY SAYS SHOOTING OF FELLOW HUNTER WAS BASED ON FAULTY INTELLIGENCE
> *
> *Believed Shooting Victim Was Zawahiri, Veep Says
> *Vice President Dick Cheney revealed today that he shot a fellow hunter
> while on a quail hunting trip over the weekend because he believed the
> man was the fugitive terror mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri.
>
> Mr. Cheney acknowledged that the man he sprayed with pellets on Saturday
> was not al-Zawahiri but rather Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old
> millionaire lawyer from Austin, blaming the mix-up on "faulty
> intelligence."
>
> "I believed I had credible intelligence that al-Zawahiri had infiltrated
> my hunting party in disguise with the intent of spraying me with
> pellets," Mr. Cheney told reporters.  "Only after I shot Harry in the
> face and he shouted 'Cheney, you bastard' did I realize that this
> intelligence was faulty."
>
> Moments after Mr. Cheney's assault on Mr. Whittington, Mr. al-Zawahiri
> appeared in a new videotape broadcast on al-Jazeera to announce that he
> was uninjured in the vice president's attack because, in his words, "I
> was in Pakistan."
>
> An aide to the vice president said he believed that the American people
> would believe Mr. Cheney's version of events, but added, "If he was
> going to shoot any of his cronies right now it's a shame it wasn't Jack
> Abramoff."
>
> At the White House, President George W. Bush defended his vice
> president's shooting of a fellow hunter, saying that the attack sent "a
> strong message to terrorists everywhere."
>
> "The message is, if Dick Cheney is willing to shoot an innocent American
> citizen at point-blank range, imagine what he'll do to you," Mr. Bush
said.
>
> Elsewhere, aviator Steve Fossett completed his three-day journey around
> the globe, setting a world record for wasting both time and money.
>
>
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