Dick's Pump

We had to buy Uncle Dick another pump for his heart.

After all, we would want him to continue to undergo "increasing congestive heart failure."

Yes. It appears his heart fails frequently. So they are slowly rebuilding his heart out of mechanical pieces. We have the technology, we can do this.

On your dime.

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learn more:Cheney Recuperating From Heart Surgery(npr)
he was just in the hospital in february

More surgery for Dick!

Ex-Vice President Cheney in hospital with chest pains(bbc)

I'm only going to say one thing:
We've spent more taxpayer dollars on heart surgeries for this guy than some of us will pay in for our entire lives.

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The New War

Why isn't anyone talking about the fact that we've recently invaded Pakistan? Even though we have already done raids into Pakistan, but American media seems to be outright ignoring it! Even my beloved NPR made the situation sound hypothetical while talking about it earlier.

Bush 'approved' Pakistan attacksBBC

From the article:
The US has been carrying out regular military air strikes on Pakistan from Afghanistan, but ten days ago US troops carried out a ground assault for the first time.

Pakistan said the raid in South Waziristan was a violation of its sovereignty and summoned the US ambassador to hear a "very strong protest".

If you ask me, and of course, you didn't, I'd say that foreign forces inside of another country killing people counts as some sort of invasion... And the Pakistanis aren't fond of being invaded.

So, yes, W. has technically started another war before he leaves office. I thought Cheney was going to start his war with the Iranians, but you never can tell! (Maybe we'll get both!)

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