BREAKING: Explosion Baghdad, Cheney hustled to shelter

Source: CNN

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Just reported there was an explosion in the green zone. Everyone hustled to shelter including reporters traveling with Cheney.

ADDENDUM: Single mortar explosion. No injuries. (CNN 11:00 a.m. EST)

11:10 A.M. LIVE press briefing in Baghdad with Cheney. (Just to prove he is alive?)

HA. SIGNAL lost, and then regained. (Remember, there is a history of losing visual signal with Cheney's TV moments.)

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Girls with pink hair are hot

Prayers for the reporters.

But of course I agree with your sentimenT.

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forcing those reporters to travel with that stinking pos

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Sure things are progressing. Just give it more time. :eyes:

Total Fubar Chaos. :grr:

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...over 20 people were killed the next day in retaliation for participating. :cry:

haven't seen a link yet.

in Afghanistan they want us to GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We don't want any repeats of the fall of Berlin.

He's not a user.

serves you right, you shit

Again.

because of his visit.

He who troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind.

He endangers US troops just by showing up. :dem:

There is no connection.

Or, at least what that's what they say on TV!

Welcome Dick!

:yourock:

they don't report it on MSM. Here's CNN's link:
Green Zone blast reported on day Cheney is in Iraq
BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Iraq's Interior Ministry is reporting an explosion in or near Baghdad's Green Zone.

The cause of the sound is not yet known.

Attacks on the heavily fortified area, the seat of U.S. and Iraqi government power in the country, are common,.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/09/wednesday/index.html

It should all be sunshine and rainbows soon.

That was conclusively THE last throe.

Yes it truly was a throe not to be outdone or replicated.

It was astonishing and enthralling in it's excessive throe-ishness and could never, ever, ever possibly be over throe-n.

So let us all join together, put our hands on our screens and praise Jesus for the very, very, very, very, very last throe.

Amen

"Pulling the Vice President out of Iraq now would send the wrong message
and allow the terrorists there to follow the Vice President here,"

Steve Young.

:rofl:

be one of the most best(funny,witty) replies i have read.

you know those evil terrorists ...you never know what those little booggers will do!!

wanna bet Cheney wants to sleep in Saddam's bed??????

fly

:applause: :toast:

:rofl:

We are sending the wrong message to the terrorist. Stay the course Cheney!

Uncle Dick is ok? Shux. :cry:

Don't be a Dick...

Gotta admire the consistency.

He'll just have to take it out on another 400 or so farm-raised little birds.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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"My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators." --March 16, 2003
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Funny.

Everyone of these asshats should get a taste of what they have done.

in the green zone? Shotguns do make explosive sounds, you know.

They will now believe that all subsequent mortar attacks on the Green Zone will cause people to hustle to shelters! Why is Dick Cheney giving aid and support to terrorists by emboldening their Green Zone shelling activities? He needs to stand firm, out in the open, declaring that it is now, officially, four plus years later, fucking GAME TIME you dirty Haji's, and you can mortar the area all your like, but one Richard Goddamn Cheney is not going to be moved (though he is still in the running towards becoming America's Next Top Model). Caaaa-mon, your filthy Haji freaks! Dick Cheney will blow your fucking house down, you filthy Haji fuckers! Stand your ground, Mr. Vice President! For Sweet Baby Jesus' sake don't show the filthy Haji's any fucking weakness!

:rofl:

...For making me choke on my coffee.

:rofl:

;-)

Just asking.

Just asking?

I wonder if they're laying the red carpet for him right now...

Maybe they just went to the shelter and like a typical zombie he followed, that makes more sense.

NEW: Interior Ministry: Explosion in Green Zone as vice president visits
• Dick Cheney in Baghdad to say: "We've got to get this work done"
• AP: Top military commander Petraeus briefs vice president
• Cheney's agenda: Urge Iraqi Parliament not to break for two months

A mortar round landed in Baghdad's Green Zone while Vice President Dick Cheney was meeting with government officials, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said.

The U.S. Embassy press office in Baghdad, however, said an explosion was heard, but it could not verify whether it was inside or outside the zone.

There are no reports of any casualties.



http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/09/iraq.main/index.html?section=cnn_latest

that explosion is a great telling subtext to cheney's visit.

just who is zooming who here?

I just got up and my eyes are blurred. I read that as "Cheney hurled". I will say I'm disappointed with what it really said.

We're fighting him there so we don't have to fight him here.

Not too sad losing the visual on the Dick.

AT LAST!!! The Dick can pin a medal on himself for valor in leading the charge into the bunker. Another medal for being wounded in battle, a little republican rewording can fix the requirements to having shat himself.

See Dick. See Omar. See Omar shoot at Dick. Run Dick Run.
See Condi. Condi likes George's Dick.
See Laura. See Laura scratch Condi's eyes out.

Tune in next week when Hop On Pop goes to Iraq.

:eyes:

a fifty-five pound box of chocolates through a plate glass window to show Dickie-boy some luv.

Did he fucking LIE? Send all of these assholes over to the "Green Zone".

shameless, repuke professional liar, aided and abetted by the corporatemediawhores of America.

McCain's visit was so successful that the carpet salesmen want Cheney to partake of some bargains too.

Advertising is different in Iraq, that's all.

Source: CBS/AP

Cheney: Iraq remains a dangerous place
Strong Explosion Strikes Baghdad During Vice President's Visit

BAGHDAD, May 9, 2007

(CBS/AP) Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday that Iraq remains
a dangerous place, a point underscored by a thunderous explosion that
rattled windows in the U.S. embassy where he spent most of the day.

-snip-

Cheney spoke less than an hour after an explosion could be heard in
the U.S. embassy where he spent most of the day. Windows rattled
and reporters covering the vice president were briefly moved to a more
secure area.

Said Cheney spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride: "His meeting was not
disturbed and he was not moved."

-snip-

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/09/iraq/main2777856.shtml

oops, this is Iraq, not an Indiana market.... my bad....

Can you imagine the hoopla circus that the republicks would put on if he were killed? They would have a funeral to beat Reagan's, with horse and the boots and planes and the dignitaries, all in an effort to get the public's sympathy. Now that I think about it, I wonder who did the bombing? Could be that old unckle dick might have been more useful dead than alive. Oh dear, time for me to remove my aluminum foil cap...everything seems like a conspiracy lately.

Cheney overheard in Iraq: ‘Kick the press out.’“Once safely ensconced in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, however, Cheney appeared to reserve his toughest language for his normal target — the press. Cheney held a lot of photo ops with key Iraqi leaders like Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, but was adamant about not taking questions. At one point, Cheney emphasized to the assembled journalists that ‘this is just a photo spray.’ Later in the day, as reporters filed into an embassy conference room for another photo of Cheney they overheard him tell his staff ‘then we kick the press out.’”

UPDATE: From a pool report: “Around 5:20 p.m. (local) there was a distant explosion that rattled windows at the building where the VP and the press corps are working today.”

thinkprogress blog

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/09/cheney-overheard-in-iraq-kick-the-press-out/

...more sensitive to the realities of war. Then again, maybe he'll just haul ass back to an undisclosed location and keep warmongering. :shrug:

before or after the dancing in the streets?

I thought it was safe enough to go shopping . . . like McCain and Huckleberry Graham did. Good news, Dick. Good news. You're forgetting your own spin.

followed by a big booming "damn, missed again!"

... a booming voice yelled "I dammit!"

multiple posts...

multiple posts...

Oops...

...in another undisclosed bunker?

Assuming he has one, of course.

Assuming he has one, of course.

Sure it makes for good press coverage, but it should not be worth the risk they are taking with people's lives.

Pray for his health and safety.

in the US? Cause he has failed.

Talk them into staying awhile... until the war ends.

My apologies to Monty Python.


Bravely Bold Dick Cheney rode forth into Baghdad.
He was not afraid to die, oh Brave Dick Cheney.
He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways.
Brave, brave, brave, brave Dick Cheney!

He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp.
Or to have his eyes gouged out and his elbows broken.
To have his kneecaps split and his body burned away
And his limbs all hacked and mangled, Brave Dick Cheney.

His head smashed in
And his heart cut out
And his liver removed
And his bowels unplugged
And his nostrils raped
And his bottom burnt off
And his penis split

Brave Dick Cheney ran away.
Bravely ran away, away.
When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Dick Cheney turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
Bravely taking to his feet
He beat a very brave retreat,
Bravest of the brave, Dick Cheney!

He is packing it in,
And packing it up,
And sneaking away,
And buggering off,
And chickening out,
And pissing off home,
Yes, bravely he is throwing in the sponge.

One would think he'd learn by now.

But, then again, maybe not. This is Dick Cheney we're talking about.

that keeps us from hearing about all the wonderful things happening in Iraq. And poor Darth just happened to be there this time....

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-- arranging a bit of payback for shooting him in the face?