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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 01:53 PM
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Cheney Kept Letter of Resignation in Safe
Former Vice President Dick Cheney tells NBC News that he had a letter of resignation ready from shortly after he became vice president. Only President George W. Bush and a Cheney staffer knew about the letter.

Said Cheney: "I did it because I was concerned that -- for a couple of reasons. One was my own health situation. The possibility that I might have a heart attack or a stroke that would be incapacitating. And, there is no mechanism for getting rid of a vice president who can't function."

Cheney kept the signed letter locked in a safe, he reveals in the memoir In My Time, which comes out Tuesday.

Of the other revelations in the book, Cheney said: "There are gonna be heads exploding all over Washington."


http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/08/24/cheney_kept_letter_of_resignation_in_safe.html
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 01:56 PM
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1. Why that peice of shit is still not in jail is a travisty of justice imo.
Worst VP ever. Should be in prison, but America doesn't work that way. We have 'laws' and then we have 'above the laws'.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 01:58 PM
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2. I'd be more interested in his signed confession
Even then, it's doubtful whether the Department of Justice would be interested in looking too closely into war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 01:58 PM
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3. Is a man without a heartbeat or pulse legally considered alive?
Edited on Wed Aug-24-11 02:01 PM by Ganja Ninja
Why can't we just drop this guy in a hole and throw dirt on him?
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 02:00 PM
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4. Fuck!
Damned shame he never used it. :)
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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 03:05 PM
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5. Last line is a teaser to get us to buy his book. Someone go to the
book store and find the answer. Then we have all we are interested in. Don't waste your money on the book.
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hifiguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 03:09 PM
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6. Darth should have been shipped to the Hague
long ago, and then to prison for the rest of his life.
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 07:09 PM
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7. He used an unfortunate metaphor, considering that shooting episode.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 07:10 PM
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8. too bad, he should have brought it out decades ago. how many lives would have been saved?
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 07:11 PM
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9. In one of the casket sized safes?
so he had a non-descript "I quit" letter. I guess he couldn't wait to fill in the details of all his horrifically miserable failures.
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Kingofalldems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-11 07:12 PM
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10. And the guy he shot had to apologize
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