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In Rare Consensus, Sunnis and Shiites Tell Cheney to Shut Up (Andy Borowitz)
BAGHDAD (The Borowitz Report)—In a development that offers a faint glimmer of hope for Iraq, both Sunnis and Shiites are finding common ground in the view that former Vice-President Dick Cheney seriously needs to shut up.
In the days following the publication, this week, of a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece about Iraq that Cheney wrote with his daughter Liz, hatred of the former Vice-President has, to the surprise of many, become the first thing that Sunnis and Shiites have agreed upon in centuries.
Iraqi observers in recent days have reported seeing both Sunnis and Shiites reading the Cheneys’ op-ed then tearing it to shreds in a rage.
“Cheney is an ass!” a Sunni merchant reportedly exclaimed in a Baghdad market on Thursday, to the resounding cheers of several Shiites nearby.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/06/in-rare-consensus-sunnis-shiites-tell-cheney-to-shut-up.html#entry-more
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Thanks for the thread, icymist.
P.S. That was good. 
It popped up on my news feed at FB and I just had to share it! 
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025126816
The author is calling it the "Elizabeth Warren wing" of the Democratic Party.
The author is calling it the "Elizabeth Warren wing" of the Democratic Party.
this gives Cheney's existence some use after all.
