27 Feb 07 Breaking News! Assassination Attempt on Dick Cheney Kills 12 23.

Cheney Targeted in Assassination Attempt

A suicide bomber struck at the main entrance to Bagram air base in Afghanistan today, as Vice President Dick Cheney was visiting.

Immediately after the attack, a red alert traveled throughout the base — a red alert that we heard saying that the base was under direct attack.

At least nine people were killed, officials tell ABC News. Associated Press reporters at the scene said that they had seen the bodies of at least 12 people, and that they had been carried in black body bags and wooden coffins from near the base into a market area where hundreds of Afghans had gathered to mourn.

A Taliban spokesperson has claimed responsibility, saying the intended target was in fact Cheney. The bomber never got near Cheney.

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I don’t really know how I feel about this, but you know this is going to play up well with the “call for surge” crowd. I don’t like Dick Cheney at all, but I’m glad he wasn’t killed. Martyrdom isn’t reserved merely for the insurgents and terrorists, even involuntary martyrdom. This would have (and is) been very bad for the anti-war effort.

Violence only begets more violence. Additionally this proves one more fact, the Taliban has regained strength in Afghanistan further cementing the fact that that is where we should be focused.

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25 Jan 07 Dodgy Dick.

Cheney v. Wolf

You can almost see the fire and seething rage burning within Vice President Cheney. I’m fairly certain Wolf let a few drops loose when Cheney tells him: “…And obviously I think the world of both my daughters and all of my grandchildren. And I think, frankly, you’re out of line with that question,” and then just glares at him. His “plead the Fifth” attitude is a little unbecoming of someone that is supposed to be convincing us that his administration and party is right and we are all wrong. Then again, they don’t really care what the public thinks and his attitude reflects that as well.

From the Washington Post:

“Cheney was terse, too, about leading Democrats. Asked whether he thinks Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) would make a good president, Cheney said simply, “No, I don’t.”

“Why?”

“Because she’s a Democrat. I don’t agree with her philosophically and from a policy standpoint.”

And how did it feel to sit next to Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the first woman to serve as House speaker?

“I prefer Dennis Hastert.”

Glad to know that they are so open-minded over there in the administration.

Something is definitely in its last throes, but I don’t think it is the war in Iraq.

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