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

[Volkman, Janice]

if only it didn't sound so reasonable...jcv


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	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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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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