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Bush ‘Satisfied’ With Cheney’s Response to Shooting

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Posted on Feb 16, 2006

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President Bush pronounced himself “satisfied” today with Vice President Cheney’s explanation of a hunting accident in which a 78-year-old Texas lawyer was shot and wounded. He said Cheney “handled the issue just fine.”

In a brief question-and-answer session with reporters at the White House after a meeting with the visiting president of Colombia, Bush said Cheney was traumatized by his accidental shooting of Texas lawyer Harry Whittington during a quail hunt on a ranch near Corpus Christi late Saturday afternoon.

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By J. Thomas Duffy, February 18, 2006 at 11:18 am Link to this comment
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Riffed on this yesterday with The Garlic: All The Cloves Fit To Peel

White House Primed To Replace “Miranda” With New, “Cheney Decision”
http://puregarlic.blogspot.com/2006/02/bush-to-change-legal-landscape.html

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