There is a funny video on the Internet on Bush’s Vice President, Dick Cheney, shooting a fellow hunter; and the Iraq war, etc.
The 23 May 2008 video says about itself:
Grade 10 satirical video project that mocks the famous Dick Cheney Shooting incident….Dick Cheney Incident Shooting Hunting Friend Quail. By Allan and Paul.
See also here.
And here.
This February 2016 video is called Dick Cheney Shot A Texas Lawyer 10 Years Ago; Still No Apology.
Dick Cheney’s wife Lynn: here.
King of Spain in Russian bear canned hunt: here.
*Secret Service agents say Cheney was drunk when he shot lawyer*
by DOUG THOMPSON
Capitol Hill Blue
Feb 22, 2006
Secret Service agents guarding Vice President Dick Cheney when he
shot Texas lawyer Harry Whittington on a hunting outing two weeks ago
say Cheney was “clearly inebriated” at the time of the shooting.
Agents observed several members of the hunting party, including the Vice
President, consuming alcohol before and during the hunting expedition,
the report notes, and Cheney exhibited “visible signs” of impairment,
including slurred speech and erratic actions.
According to those who have talked with the agents and others present at
the outing, Cheney was drunk when he gunned down his friend and the
day-and-a-half delay in allowing Texas law enforcement officials on the
ranch where the shooting occurred gave all members of the hunting party
time to sober up.
We talked with a number of administration officials who are privy to
inside information on the Vice President’s shooting “accident” and all
admit Secret Service agents and others say they saw Cheney consume far
more than the “one beer’ he claimed he drank at lunch earlier that day.
“This was a South Texas hunt,” says one White House aide. “Of course
there was drinking. There’s always drinking. Lots of it.”
One agent at the scene has been placed on administrative leave and
another requested reassignment this week. A memo reportedly written by
one agent has been destroyed, sources said Wednesday afternoon.
Cheney has a long history of alcohol abuse, including two convictions of
driving under the influence when he was younger. Doctors tell me that
someone like Cheney, who is taking blood thinners because of his history
of heart attacks, could get legally drunk now after consuming just one
drink.
If Cheney was legally drunk at the time of the shooting, he could be
guilty of a felony under Texas law and the shooting, ruled an accident
by a compliant Kenedy County Sheriff, would be a prosecutable offense.
But we will never know for sure because the owners of the Armstrong
Ranch, where the shooting occurred, barred the sheriff’s department from
the property on the day of the shooting and Kenedy County Sheriff Ramon
Salinas III agreed to wait until the next day to send deputies in to
talk to those involved.
Sheriff’s Captain Charles Kirk says he went to the Armstrong Ranch
immediately after the shooting was reported on Saturday, February 11 but
both he and a game warden were not allowed on the 50,000-acre property.
He called Salinas who told him to forget about it and return to the
station.
“I told him don’t worry about it. I’ll make a call,” Salinas said. The
sheriff claims he called another deputy who moonlights at the Armstrong
ranch, said he was told it was “just an accident” and made the decision
to wait until Sunday to investigate.
“We’ve known these people for years. They are honest and wouldn’t call
us, telling us a lie,” Salinas said.
Like all elected officials in Kenedy County, Salinas owes his job to the
backing and financial support of Katherine Armstrong, owner of the ranch
and the county’s largest employer.
“The Armstrongs rule Kenedy County like a fiefdom,” says a former
employee.
Secret Service officials also took possession of all tests on
Whittington’s blood at the hospitals where he was treated for his
wounds. When asked if a blood alcohol test had been performed on
Whittington, the doctors who treated him at Christus Spohn Hospital
Memorial in Corpus Christi or the hospital in Kingsville refused to
answer. One admits privately he was ORDERED by the Secret Service to
“NEVER DISCUSS the case with the press.”
It’s a sure bet that is a private doctor who treated the victim of
Cheney’s reckless and drunken actions can’t talk to the public then any
evidence that shows the Vice President drunk as a skunk will never see
the light of day.
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