Time Magazine: Cheney had 'thousand yard stare' after shooting BULLSH*T! [View All]

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"It was perhaps the most eloquent, emotionally unguarded moment from the notoriously buttoned-up Vice President. He seemed stunned, uncertain for once. And the haunted look in his eyes reminded me of what soldiers in Vietnam used to call the thousand-yard stare--the paralytic..."


THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE INSULT TO ALL THOSE THAT WENT TO VIETNAM - and as a Vietnam Era Veteran I find this to be one of the SLIMIEST Spin doctoring I've yet to see, to compare Cheney's inability to tell the difference between an 8 inch BIRD and a 6 foot tall HUMAN BEING, to REAL MEN who FOUGHT, DIED and were scared SHITLESS most of the time, laying around in jungles, rats the size of cats gnawing on them, trenchboot rotting off their feet, no sleep, a sniper behind every LEAF for months or YEARS, NEVER SLEEPING is a goddam insult of the HIGHEST ORDER.

HOW DARE they say something like this!? HOW DARE THEY? Son of a bitch Chickenhawk who got FIVE deferments because he had "other options" or whatever the hell excuse he made..

ALL of my friends who went to Nam came back so jumpy that if a car backfired they'd take the SKIN OFF THEIR CHEST, MANY of them never really "slept" again, not ONE good Night's SLEEP - if they didn't sleep with ONE EYE OPEN ALL NIGHT, they'd sleep with TWO eyese open - a few of them looked like they were actually DEAD laying there napping with both eyes open..

My own brother came back from Nam and punched my 11 year old sister in the FACE when she just walked into the room..

I ask ALL Vets that read this to write to this mag or these writers and DEMAND some kind of RETRACTION or Explanation, or APOLOGY..

The gloves are OFF, bad enough they downplay the whole shooting but to compare this PUTZ to WARTIME, COMBAT Veterans is an ABOMINATION..

Sorry, but this put me over the edge.


http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1161254,00.html