Cheney Under Attack
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http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/02/27/D8NHUGUG0.html
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/02/27/D8NHU0400.html
A suicide bomber detonated an explosive outside the base where VP Dick Cheney is staying in Afghanistan, it's reported that he is fine and was not injured although there are varied reports of up to 20 dead and 11 injured.
So far what's missing from all reporting, outrage...
from slate it looks like the anti-American news roundup...
http://www.slate.com/id/2160713/?nav=fix
Cheney was not injured, but the attack is seen as a bold show of force by insurgents.
Briebart has quotes from a supposed Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, who said Cheney was the target of the attack.
"We knew that Dick Cheney would be staying inside the base," ... "The attacker was trying to reach Cheney."
Quote supplied by the Associated Press, we can all be sure that they quickly worked with security forces to track down the source for this information (NOT).
These are the initial reports, almost all deny that the VP was the target of the attack for some reason but how does that add up?
Where is the outrage? Can you imagine the media response if this had been a sympathetic figure!
The VP has been under attack for a week in the press over his thoughts on Nasty Nan & Co by the democrats and the entire left so it will be interesting to see how these new events will shape todays news.
If there is no outrage, no gathering on capital hill to express concern and denounce these actions even though we know that right now on the lefty blogs the hatemongers will be typing out fantasies of vastly darker alternate endings...
Predictions anyone?
The whole point of the insurgency and the continued fighting is that our enemies seek to break us and turn this into another Vietnam where political/willpower defeatism causes surrender even in the face of military success.
What could be less likely to create that then killing the Vice President. Something of that magnitude would be akin to 9/11 and would "fire up" a lot of people who have drifted away from the war but are on the edges to renew the fight in earnest. Many people might be against the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, but nothing would bring them back to a "kick their butts" attitude then an assassination.