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thepeel
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 Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 6:56 am Post subject: Will a blood clot force Cheney to step down? |
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Dare. To. Dream.
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Dick Cheney has been diagnosed with a blood clot in his left leg, leading to speculation he will be forced to resign as U.S. Vice-President.
The 66-year-old has a history of major health problems, including four heart attacks, and has undergone quadruple-bypass surgery.
He is a driving force in both the war in Iraq and the 'war on terror' and his resignation would be a huge loss to George Bush.
The vice-president is the leader of Washington's neo-conservatives and is believed to be a dominant influence on Mr Bush's military and foreign policies.
He is also believed to be the president's closest political friend.
There has been widespread speculation that if Mr Cheney is unable to complete his term in office through ill health he will be replaced by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, another personal friend of Mr Bush.
Mr Cheney called in a doctor yesterday after suffering 'discomfort' in his calf.
'An ultrasound test revealed a deep venous thrombosis or blood clot in his left lower leg,' said an
official report. The vice-president has been put on blood thinning medication and has returned to work.
While the White House is trying to play down the situation, the condition is obviously serious and will again trigger speculation that Mr Cheney could be forced to resign through poor health.
Blood clots that form deep in the legs can become killers if they break off and float into the lungs.
This is called a pulmonary embolism.
Mr Cheney suffered his first heart attack in 1978 at 37. In June
2001, doctors implanted a device that monitors and normalises an irregular heartbeat. Mr Cheney refers to it as his 'pacemaker plus'.
The vice-president is under enormous stress as his policies in Iraq continue to fail and casualty figures mount.
He returned last week from a trip that included unannounced stops in Afghanistan and Pakistan and during which a Taliban suicide bomber tried to kill him.
Since he got back, Mr Cheney has been sharply criticising the opposition Democrats for trying to restrict funds for President Bush's troop build-up in Iraq.
The President relies on him heavily not just to formulate policy but also as an 'attack dog' to take on domestic critics.
There is speculation that the 65 hours Mr Cheney spent in the air aboard Air Force Two over the nine-day trip could have contributed to his thrombosis.
'When you're just sitting there with your legs hanging down for long periods of time, that's what predisposes you to the problem,' said Sean O'Donnell, chief of vascular surgery of Washington Hospital Centre.
The vice-president's travel schedule is likely to be severely curtailed in future. |
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23387838-details/Will+a+blood+clot+force+Cheney+to+step+down/article.do |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 6:58 am Post subject: |
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| I don't usually pray, but tonight I will throw one out to Oil Slick Dikie and hope he is gone for good! |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:08 am Post subject: |
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| This is all fine, of course, but I shutter at who could replace Satan himself... |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:34 am Post subject: |
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| If he left (or god forbid, died) I think the republican party would force Bush to pick someone who could run and have a shot a winning in 2008, I am thinking McCain or someone similar. The party of evil will do anything to stay in power. |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:36 am Post subject: ... |
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Interesting. So Rice replaces him, becomes the first black female VP ever, and throws her hat in the ring for 2008.
Just a wild guess. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 2:49 pm Post subject: Re: Will a blood clot force Cheney to step down? |
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Dare. To. Dream.
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*beep* Cheney has been diagnosed with a blood clot in his left leg, leading to speculation he will be forced to resign as U.S. Vice-President.
The 66-year-old has a history of major health problems, including four heart attacks, and has undergone quadruple-bypass surgery.
He is a driving force in both the war in Iraq and the 'war on terror' and his resignation would be a huge loss to George Bush.
The vice-president is the leader of Washington's neo-conservatives and is believed to be a dominant influence on Mr Bush's military and foreign policies.
He is also believed to be the president's closest political friend.
There has been widespread speculation that if Mr Cheney is unable to complete his term in office through ill health he will be replaced by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, another personal friend of Mr Bush.
Mr Cheney called in a doctor yesterday after suffering 'discomfort' in his calf.
'An ultrasound test revealed a deep venous thrombosis or blood clot in his left lower leg,' said an
official report. The vice-president has been put on blood thinning medication and has returned to work.
While the White House is trying to play down the situation, the condition is obviously serious and will again trigger speculation that Mr Cheney could be forced to resign through poor health.
Blood clots that form deep in the legs can become killers if they break off and float into the lungs.
This is called a pulmonary embolism.
Mr Cheney suffered his first heart attack in 1978 at 37. In June
2001, doctors implanted a device that monitors and normalises an irregular heartbeat. Mr Cheney refers to it as his 'pacemaker plus'.
The vice-president is under enormous stress as his policies in Iraq continue to fail and casualty figures mount.
He returned last week from a trip that included unannounced stops in Afghanistan and Pakistan and during which a Taliban suicide bomber tried to kill him.
Since he got back, Mr Cheney has been sharply criticising the opposition Democrats for trying to restrict funds for President Bush's troop build-up in Iraq.
The President relies on him heavily not just to formulate policy but also as an 'attack dog' to take on domestic critics.
There is speculation that the 65 hours Mr Cheney spent in the air aboard Air Force Two over the nine-day trip could have contributed to his thrombosis.
'When you're just sitting there with your legs hanging down for long periods of time, that's what predisposes you to the problem,' said Sean O'Donnell, chief of vascular surgery of Washington Hospital Centre.
The vice-president's travel schedule is likely to be severely curtailed in future. |
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23387838-details/Will+a+blood+clot+force+Cheney+to+step+down/article.do |
I think you shouldn't get your hopes up. Lucien Bouchard, a Quebec seperatist, lost a leg to the 'flesh-eating disease' and it didn't stop him. |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Octavius Hite wrote: |
| If he left (or god forbid, died) I think the republican party would force Bush to pick someone who could run and have a shot a winning in 2008, I am thinking McCain or someone similar. The party of evil will do anything to stay in power. |
I tend to agree with OH, if Cheney resigned it would help the Republicans more then hurt them. 1) Connecting Cheney with the Plame outing would become more difficult and 2) As OH said, Bush could appoint someone who would serve as VP for just under 2 years. This would potentially give them time to turn around public opinion and for the person appointed to run for president (if they aren't already).
It's all speculation though. I doubt it will happen. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Milwaukiedave wrote: |
It's all speculation though. I doubt it will happen. |
It sure would make the ol'cafe interesting if it did.. |
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contrarian
Joined: 20 Jan 2007
Location: Nearly in NK
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| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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Cheney has 1 year and 9 months left to go. He will stay in office until then or simply die in office. On the other hand Condi Rice would make a great VP. Just think VP Rice is nominated as VP Candidate with McCain as Presidential candidate.
McCain is old enough to be a one term president and the President Rice.
Better than Barak Hussein Obama. |
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thepeel
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| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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A judgment on Cheney is still to come
WASHINGTON: In legal terms, the jury has spoken in the Libby case. In political terms, Dick Cheney is still awaiting a judgment.
For weeks, Washington watched, mesmerized, as the trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. cast Vice President Cheney, his former boss, in the role of puppeteer, pulling the strings in a covert public relations campaign to defend the Bush administration's case for war in Iraq and discredit a critic.
"There is a cloud over the vice president," the prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, told the jury in summing up the case last month.
Cheney was not charged in the case, cooperated with the investigation and expressed a willingness to testify if called, though he never was. Yet he was a central figure throughout, fighting back against suggestions that he and President George W. Bush had taken the country to war on the basis of flawed intelligence, showing himself to be keenly sensitive to how he was portrayed in the news media and backing Libby to the end.
"The trial has been death by 1,000 cuts for Cheney," said Scott Reed, a Republican strategist. "It's hurt him inside the administration. It's hurt him with the Congress, and it's hurt his stature around the world because it has shown a lot of the inner workings of the White House. It peeled the bark right off the way they operate."
The legal question in the case was whether Libby lied to investigators and prosecutors looking into the leak of the name of a C.I.A. operative, Valerie Wilson, whose husband, the former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, wrote an Op-Ed article in The New York Times accusing the White House of distorting pre-war intelligence. Cheney scrawled notes on a copy of the article, asking "did his wife send him on a junket?"
Now, Cheney faces a civil suit from Wilson.
The political question was whether Libby, the vice president's former chief of staff, was "the fall guy" for his boss, in the words of Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York. Though the defense introduced a note from Cheney worrying that Libby was being sacrificed to protect other White House officials, some say the vice president bears responsibility for the fate of his former aide, known as Scooter. |
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/07/america/web-0307cheney.php?page=2 |
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