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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 09:01 AM
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Hunting With Cheney a Blast-Only Twins in US who shot VP w/o going to jail
Sunday, April 9, 2006
Hunting With Cheney a Blast
By Jeff Jones Albuquerque Journal; Journal Politics Writer

Who shot Dick Cheney?

Years before the vice president accidentally shot a lawyer on a Texas quail hunt, Cheney himself was on the receiving end of an errant shotgun blast during a quail outing in New Mexico, a prominent Carlsbad Republican says.

Carlsbad Mayor Bob Forrest told the Journal he doesn't know for sure who fired the shot that accidentally peppered Cheney with shotgun pellets during the late-1990s hunt that included himself, his twin brother, and Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M.

But the senator wasn't the triggerman, Forrest said, adding he and brother Dick Forrest were among hunters firing their shotguns.

Cheney was unhurt but miffed after the peppering, Forrest said.

"It did pelt him pretty good," recalled Forrest, now 70. "He said, 'You guys watch where you're shooting!' He was very offended ...

"We're probably the only twins in the United States that have shot the vice president and never have gone to jail," Forrest joked, while maintaining that the actual shooter remains unknown.

more at:
http://www.abqjournal.com/news/state/450065nm04-09-06.htm
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 09:03 AM
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1. Propaganda, disinformation to water down Cheney's CRIMINALITY n/t.
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 09:06 AM
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3. Amen. NO PROOF this ever happened.
AT ALL.

I call LIE.
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 09:05 AM
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2. In late 1990s
he wAS NOT the VP yet
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Crankie Avalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 09:08 AM
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4. So this is what routinely happens when Republican chickenhawks...
Edited on Mon Apr-10-06 09:10 AM by Crankie Avalon
...think they can compensate for their draft dodging by playing Army-man in the woods with their little "hunts"?

Just a hunch, but I'm guessing the Forrest twins saw exactly as much combat service as Cheney did.
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