This Explains Everything...

[kpete]

“The Dark Side” also describes a frightening false alarm at the White House on Oct. 18, 2001, when, it says, an alarm went off on a machine designed to detect biological, chemical or radiological attacks. Among those who believed they might have been exposed to a pathogen was Vice President Dick Cheney.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/washington/11detain.html?adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1215799387-Sp8YgGxqnkmDR8siL6flHA

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Hmm...

"Ms. Mayer quotes an unnamed “former administration official” as saying, “They thought that Cheney was already lethally infected.”"

We live in times of diminished dreams and expectations.

[anonymous171]

2. lol. As if Cheney weren't immune to all biological and chemical weapons.

[charlie]

3. I guess it didn't occur to them

that Cheney might be the source of the pathogen. If you don't want alarms going off, keep that walking malignancy away from them.

[YOY]

4. "There ain't no killin' what can't be killed."

To quote the epic cinema spectacular that was Predator 2 (starring Danny Glover.)