Monday, July 28, 2008

Cheney's Fear of Wounded Veterans


Darth Cheney's speech before wounded combat veterans has been canceled by the Disabled American Veterans because the self-absorbed authoritarian is apparently terrified of veterans.

His staff insisted the sick vets be sequestered for two hours before Cheney's arrival and couldn't leave until he'd finished talking, officials confirmed. "Word got back to us ... that this would be a prerequisite," said the veterans executive director, David Gorman, who noted the meeting hall doesn't have any rest rooms.

"We told them it just wasn't acceptable." . . Many of the vets are elderly and left pieces of themselves on foreign battlefields since World War II, and others were crippled by recent service in Iraq and Afghanistan. For health reasons, many can't be stuck in a room for hours.