It is apparently the first time a sitting Vice-President has shot a
person since July 11, 1804, when Aaron Burr killed statesman Alexander
Hamilton in a duel.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10368594
Heart pellet ends Cheney 'joke'
2/16/06
By Rupert Cornwell
WASHINGTON -
"We can't get bin Laden, but we nailed a 78-year-old attorney,"
comedian David Letterman said on his CBS Late Night Show.
Yesterday the joke suddenly became a good deal less funny.
Harry Whittington suffered a minor heart attack after being peppered
with gunshot by Vice-President ***** Cheney on a quail hunt in Texas.
Doctors at the hospital where the veteran Republican lawyer and
activist was rushed after the weekend accident said a 5mm birdshot
pellet moved and lodged in part of his heart, causing an atrial
fibrillation.
Whittington underwent a cardiac catheterisation and remained at risk.
David Blanchard, the Corpus Christi hospital's emergency care chief,
said Whittington suffered "a silent heart attack" that lacked many of
the typical symptoms.
Though Whittington was apparently fully alert and in good spirits, he
was moved back into an intensive care unit where he will be monitored
for a further seven days.
The pellet for now at least will be left in place.
"He can live a healthy life with it there, he's not had a heart attack
in the traditional sense," said Blanchard.
But Whittington's age is a complicating factor, medical experts said.
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Good job, Tricky Dicky. Couldn't shoot a tame quail but ya really let
that tame 78-year old have it. How was your aim during the Vietnam
War? Oh, wait a minute, you arranged to miss that one. Sorry, forgot.
Harry
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