Mea culpa for bad aim
I wish to apologize to the media for just now reporting a hunting accident that occurred in 1950. My boss, chief engineer of Fieldcrest Mills Inc., was dove shooting with his safety engineer. During the hunt, the safety engineer shot his boss in the seat of his pants. He was not seriously injured and no bird shots migrated from his wounds to his heart. It is felt that there is no need for further investigation of the incident.
Bob Wilkerson
Eden
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A related LTE from another daily rag:
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Vice President Dick Cheney's reaction to the hunting accident appeared to be genuine shock and awe, sincere and personal remorse over the inadvertent consequences of a hasty action.
How different the world might be had this accident occurred in 2002, after Sept. 11, but before passing the Point-of-No-Return on the March to Baghdad.
America now lives with the inadvertent consequences of a similar hasty action: spinning around and pulling the trigger on what was thought a legitimate target, the classic "shoot first, ask questions later" situation, relying on adrenaline instead of intelligence, instinct rather than aim.
By many accounts, the problems in Iraq come from the lack of Plan B. What if the Iraqi people, numb from 35 years of Ba'athist over-lording, simply didn't understand Plan A which was "They Take Control." What if long-suffering Iraqis rejected the long-absent Ahmad Chalabi. What if Iraqi's could not immediately see the big picture, and looted as their first act of freedom, grabbing the small things and missing the opportunity to grab their future?
What if Cheney had suffered last week's lesson earlier? Perhaps the administration have considered harder the consequences of failed Plan A, which must have been named, "Ready? Fire! I mean Aim."
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Posted on March 1, 2006 6:48 AM
JDR,
Lately you have been right on target! (pardon the pun)
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, ARE the Larry, Moe and Curly of the post 911 world.
They are inept in every move, and think of themselves as rocket scientists. Too bad they are not funny.
Posted on March 1, 2006 9:04 AM
Complete non-issue. Go ahead though, please spend more time with it.
Posted on March 1, 2006 10:03 AM
Cheney waited 18 hours to let the press know of the hunting accident and Mr. Wilkerson waited 56 years!
Hugh, ain't it amazing how folks like JDR can take a hunting accident and spin it into what coulda shoulda happened in Iraq?
Using that logic, if Mr. Wilkersons accident had happened 12 years earlier maybe WWII could have been avoided.
Posted on March 1, 2006 1:24 PM
One dif' is this: WWII was done with thought.
... and we won decisively in 3-1/2 years.
... 'sides Dan, I thought you were having second thought about helping the towel-heads.
Posted on March 1, 2006 5:41 PM
Oh No JDR! Not Dan! He'd never admit that Bush screwed up royally by going into a country having no relation to 911....He'd just tell us how unpatriotic we are and how we are really the problem, not Rummy, Cheney, and W.
Those of us that spoke of a quaqmire, another Viet Nam, we are all unpatriotic leftists!
We were just being negative by pointing out that Iraq could erupt into civil war or that Bush was creating terrorists where none had existed heretofore.....JDR, we are being negative. Oh, and by the way, Hillary is not offering Dan any solutions either!
Posted on March 2, 2006 1:02 PM
Uhhh Deacon, you just reinforced my point. The LTE is about a 1950 hunting acccident and was spun by JDR into what shoulda happened in Iraq. Kinda like the one the other day about the Muslim cartoons that you spun into a Bush bash tirade.
You guys remind me of when I was 18, I had a one tracked mind. Difference was I was focused on pretty women, you guys focused on a politician.
Deacon, I hope you have something fulfilling in your life. At 42, I might suffer a heart attack if I carried around so much rage.
Posted on March 2, 2006 1:37 PM
... actually, I thought the comparison of Cheney's "Ready Fire OOPS" hunting accident to the "Ready Fire Aim" Iraqi debacle was pretty good!
... and fwiw, at 18 politics was also a total unknown to me .. and girls were still a mystery too, candidly. Heck Women still puzzle me !!
Actually I don't know that I actually "like" politics .. I'm def' more interested in the World - curious about much and master of nothing, that's me .. but there seems to be so much stupidity going around, politics screwing up the world, that one has no choice but to try and cut through the fog just to see.
Here's a quick example: Intelligent Design. In the context of current use, an oxymoron that would be funny if true morons were not tying it into the future of my kid's education .. writing laws to waste their time and my money to have it studied instead of genuinely useful things.
'nuff said.
Posted on March 2, 2006 5:03 PM