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re: I assume we're not counting wars, here.

Laurie Street — 2/14/2006 8:51:40 PM (archived)

So - has there been a sitting vice-President who has shot someone in wartime? Or even a past or future one? (that might be harder to track down, and I think "sitting" is an important differentiation.)

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The Quailgate Cover-Up - Donald - 2/14/2006 2:18:31 PM
- Give him a break. They had to wait until he sobered up. - Bowser - 2/15/2006 3:13:53 AM
  - They had to wait until he sobered up. - Lindy - 2/15/2006 1:28:26 PM
    - Hunting and alcohol - Jack Herer - 2/15/2006 1:42:36 PM
      - re: Where is this "sacred practice" practiced? - Scott Evil - 2/15/2006 2:37:09 PM
        
        Da Yoopers - Laurie Street - 2/15/2006 7:54:18 PM
        
        I never hunted, but I've packed in Jack Daniels to all sorts of remote locations. - alcaray - 2/15/2006 7:30:19 PM
        
        It's the sugar that does it..... (n/t) - Lindy - 2/16/2006 2:08:31 AM
        
        That sounds horrible. - Scott Evil - 2/15/2006 9:42:11 PM
        
        One of those things you learn not to do. (n/t) - alcaray - 2/15/2006 9:47:09 PM
- Since when did not notifying the press become a crime? - Lee - 2/14/2006 7:50:10 PM
  - Maybe so. Question: Do you think we have a right to know if Cheney shoots someone? (n/t) - alcaray - 2/15/2006 12:06:16 AM
  - Let's ask MARY Jo at Martha's Vineyard......???? - carl - 2/14/2006 10:33:13 PM
- re: The Quailgate Cover-Up - Tom Brosz - 2/14/2006 7:20:27 PM
  - The "uproar" at my house is derived from two things: - Mary Anne - 2/15/2006 2:48:23 AM
    - Only thing that makes sense - he was drunk. (n/t) - Bowser - 2/15/2006 4:26:46 AM
  - Gee, this seems familiar... hmmmm where have I seen such desperate tactics... - R.L. - 2/14/2006 8:49:49 PM
    - Come on. Even you would have to admit this "controversy" is lame. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 2/14/2006 10:39:21 PM
      - Lame? LAME?! - Lindy - 2/15/2006 12:40:55 AM
      - How? - R.L. - 2/14/2006 11:04:01 PM
        
        Can you imagine Tom and the other neocons reaction had it been Clinton pulling the trigger? - Buck Galaxy - 2/15/2006 2:03:16 AM
        
        You don't know the half of it out there. - Tom Brosz - 2/15/2006 2:29:20 AM
        
        Even if a Democrat had done it and the press coverage was identical they would be whining... - R.L. - 2/15/2006 2:28:18 AM
        
        Clinton - Tom Brosz - 2/15/2006 2:31:19 AM
        
        Iraq. You missed the part about Iraq. Small country, Middle East. (n/t) - Bowser - 2/15/2006 5:24:11 AM
        
        And Cheney delaying his meeting with the police for 14 hours? (n/t) - R.L. - 2/15/2006 2:36:30 AM
        
        re: And Cheney delaying his meeting with the police for 14 hours? - Tom Brosz - 2/15/2006 3:20:40 AM
        
        "At least one deputy showed up at the ranch's front gate Saturday evening and asked to speak to Cheney but was turned away by the Secret Service" - Lindy - 2/15/2006 1:39:13 PM
        
        Read the rest of that paragraph. - Tom Brosz - 2/15/2006 5:27:28 PM
        
        A deputy arrived that night and asked to speak to Cheney but was turned away by the Secret Service - Buck Galaxy - 2/15/2006 8:03:36 AM
        
        And if it were you instead of Cheney - R.L. - 2/15/2006 3:29:13 AM
        
        re: And if it were you instead of Cheney - Tom Brosz - 2/15/2006 6:06:07 AM
        
        Tom, I am NOT saying this is an impeachable offense - R.L. - 2/15/2006 11:20:52 PM
        
        So you are saying that those that hold high political office... - R.L. - 2/15/2006 10:42:15 PM
        
        Keeping a grip on reality - Buck Galaxy - 2/15/2006 7:24:41 AM
        
        "the perpetrator not reporting it until the next day?" - Tom Brosz - 2/15/2006 5:18:21 PM
        
        semi-personal story - alcaray - 2/15/2006 6:52:53 PM
        
        Dick to finally come clean - Buck Galaxy - 2/15/2006 6:11:54 PM
        
        That would be the same Harry Reid... - Tom Brosz - 2/15/2006 7:20:53 PM
        
        Then there's this quote: - Tom Brosz - 2/15/2006 7:25:12 PM
        
        Tom in full dodge ball mode - Buck Galaxy - 2/15/2006 7:34:06 PM
        
        re: dodge ball mode - Tom Brosz - 2/15/2006 8:00:45 PM
        
        Tom, is there ANY law you don't mind this administration breaking? - Lindy - 2/16/2006 2:29:11 AM
        
        I'm sorry, I must have missed the commitment of a crime. - Tom Brosxz - 2/16/2006 2:37:03 AM
        
        What I said was true... - R.L. - 2/15/2006 2:34:07 AM
        
        ;-) and, predictably- no response (n/t) - R.L. - 2/15/2006 3:27:26 AM
        
        Tom is doggedly avoiding this point... - R.L. - 2/15/2006 6:49:00 PM
        
        It is all rhetoric. Not pursuit of the truth. (n/t) - alcaray - 2/15/2006 6:57:45 PM
  - How many of those shootings in Texas involve the Vice President of the United States? - Robert - 2/14/2006 7:23:24 PM
    - re: Vice President of the United States - Tom Brosz - 2/14/2006 7:39:33 PM
      - re: Vice President of the United States - dtb - 2/14/2006 11:12:26 PM
- 202 years ago - Robert - 2/14/2006 7:20:05 PM
  - Ford - FrankC - 2/14/2006 10:37:08 PM
    - Nope, Ford didn't shoot 'im - Robert - 2/15/2006 1:03:35 AM
      - Cheney loses his taste for the hunt.... - Lindy - 2/15/2006 2:09:29 AM
    - re: Ford - R.L. - 2/14/2006 11:10:33 PM
    - Same level of incident?! - R.L. - 2/14/2006 11:09:29 PM
      - lodged? - FrankC - 2/15/2006 6:17:38 PM
  - I assume we're not counting wars, here. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 2/14/2006 7:40:24 PM
    - re: I assume we're not counting wars, here. - Laurie Street - 2/14/2006 8:51:40 PM
- Whittington has pellets lodged in his heart! - Jack Herer - 2/14/2006 6:46:33 PM
  - Negligent homicide if the guy dies. Big trouble even if he doesn't. (n/t) - Bowser - 2/14/2006 6:56:38 PM
    - Manslaughter for sure. (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 2/15/2006 7:26:39 AM
      - It would be involuntary Manslaughter - Scott Evil - 2/15/2006 2:32:59 PM
- I think you nailed it, Don - McFly - 2/14/2006 6:38:19 PM
  - "Pure blood lust." - Sam F. - 2/15/2006 3:57:13 AM
  - Don't forget. - Bowser - 2/14/2006 6:55:15 PM
- I wonder if the NSA sniffers picked up any of the details concerning the cover up? - Scott Evil - 2/14/2006 2:47:51 PM
  - On a more serious note - Donald - 2/14/2006 3:29:50 PM
  - No, but I suspect that.... - Donald - 2/14/2006 3:02:30 PM
    - Politicians and guns don't mix: Didn't somebody in congress just recently have a "gun accident"? - Scott Evil - 2/14/2006 3:12:03 PM
      - Who was that? (n/t) - Lindy - 2/14/2006 3:13:44 PM
        
        re: I don't remeber...it was a 15 minute story...Maybe somebody else remembers the details... - Scott Evil - 2/14/2006 3:23:51 PM
        
        re: maybe it wasn't DC... I think this is the story - Scott Evil - 2/14/2006 3:28:19 PM
        
        "politicians and guns don't mix" - Robert - 2/15/2006 1:12:36 AM
        
        Thanks (n/t) - Lindy - 2/15/2006 1:00:47 AM

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