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

[Rev. David Canan]

Re: [Rhodes22-list] Joke -- CHENEY SAYS SHOOTING OF FELLOW HUNTER WASBASED ON FAULTY INTELLIGENCEtee hee
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Peter Thorn 
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  Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 1:02 PM
  Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Joke -- CHENEY SAYS SHOOTING OF FELLOW HUNTER WASBASED ON FAULTY INTELLIGENCE


  Bill, 

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

  PT 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Bill Effros" <bill at effros.com> 
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  Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 12:33 PM 
  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. 
  > 
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