Assassination attempt on Cheney; WH decided not to wake up Bush

[sabra]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/02/27/cheney.afghanistan.ap/index.html

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"I heard a loud boom," Cheney told reporters. "The Secret Service came in and told me there had been an attack on the main gate."

He said he was moved "for a brief period of time" to a bomb shelter on the base near his quarters. "As the situation settled down and they had a better sense of what was going on, I went back to my room," Cheney added.

...

White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino said she could not confirm that the Taliban was behind the attack.

Perino said President Bush got an update Tuesday morning about the attack, but had not yet spoken to Cheney about it. Bush was not awakened to be told about the attack, she said.

"Of course, we're glad that he's OK," Perino said of Cheney.

[Catherine Vincent]

1. They were probably afraid to wake him.

Either that, he had such a hangover it would be no point to try and awake him.

[FightingIrish]

2. That's surprising.

Bush is just a heartbeat away from being president. They would have to tell him sometime if something happened to Uncle Dick, wouldn't they?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. if they woke him, we'd probably be bombing Iran at this moment.

as clear headed as this man is, he would have "screwn" things even more.

[meegbear]

4. Is it me ...

or does this administration seem to have a lax attitude towards terrorist attacks.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

5. this misadministration's behavior . . .

. . . . keeps getting more and more bizarre.

What would it take for someone to decide to wake the little fucker from his beauty rest?!

[Norquist Nemesis]

6. So, this is the FIRST time this location has been attacked?

It wouldn't at all surprise me that the Taliban (or some other take-your-pick of groups mounting attacks) would be attempting to "assassinate" a US official. That said, it's strange to me that the headlines are "Assassination Attempt on Cheney".

[sabra]

12. good point, either case Cheney was in a base that came under attack though

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP120423.htm

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"We wanted to target ... Cheney," Taliban spokesman Mullah Hayat Khan told Reuters by phone from an undisclosed location.

[AlCzervik]

7. what we be the point of waking him up really? Wouldn't they wake up

Cheney's second?

[Kelly Rupert]

10. You mean Bush? n/t

[AlCzervik]

11. no way, i'm sure there is someone else.

[Aviation Pro]

8. Hitler was not awakened when the Normandy invasion commenced....

...either.

[tanyev]

9. The Emperor's sleep time must not be disturbed.

Or his work out time.
Or his recreation time.
Or his prayer time.


Thank goodness we have "grown-ups" running the country.
:sarcasm:

[Benhurst]

13. Jeff Gannon is a working man. They probably didn't wake Bush up

for fear of disturbing Jeff as well.

[peekaloo]

14. They haven't linked the bombing to Iran yet?

:shrug:

They're slipping.