{"id":22,"date":"2008-03-31T05:41:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T09:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/dick-cheney-could-kick-your-ass\/"},"modified":"2012-05-18T17:14:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T21:14:26","slug":"dick-cheney-could-kick-your-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/dick-cheney-could-kick-your-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Cheney Could Kick Your Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On March 17, 2008, Vice President Dick Cheney visited Baghdad. He was promptly greeted by a car bomb that rocked Baghdad and injured three people. Before the end of the day a suicide bomber killed at least 40 people in the neighboring city of Karbala, two American soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad, and an exploding mortar shell killed five people on a Baghdad soccer field. Cheney used his visit to announce that the troop surge had accomplished “phenomenal changes” and that the US invasion was a “successful endeavor.”<\/p>\n

Cheney has shown he is not above crass language in public. He agreed with President George W. Bush at a 2000 campaign event that New York Times<\/em> reporter, Adam Clymer, was a “big time” asshole and on the floor of the US Senate in 2004 he told Senator Patrick Leahy to “fuck himself.”<\/p>\n

And yes, he shot his friend in the face.<\/p>\n

Sources<\/p>\n

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  1. Helen Dewar & Dana Milbank, “Cheney Dismisses Critic With Obscenity,” Washington Post<\/em>, 25 June 2004. LINK<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Liz Sly, “Iraq Violence Greets McCain, Cheney,” Chicago Tribune<\/em>, 18 Mar. 2008. LINK<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Jake Tapper, “A ‘Major League Asshole,'” Salon.com, 4 Sep. 2000. LINK<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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