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Vice President Dick Cheney is greeted by General David Petraeus as he arrives at Baghdad International Airport May 9, 2007. REUTERS/Gerald Herbert
(So, whattya think? Is the bullet proof vest a 56 short?)
Seriously, though, watch this visit closely. Cheney is there to head off the Sunni withdrawal from the government. Bush invited Hashemi to Washington, but Hashemi refused, so in goes Cheney. This is an important visit.
He's meeting with Maliki, then with the top politician for each faction, the Kurdish President, Sunni VP Hashemi, and the SCIRI VP, then on to Saudi Arabia in an effort to stop this Sunni withdrawal.
Later: Photo ops only in Baghdad, no questions, and a (predictably regular) distant explosion shook the building.
posted by mikevotes at
7:37 AM
5 Comments:
Is it just me....
or does Cheney look like the Penguin from the old Batman series?
By
-epm, at 9:59 AM
ILooks like he's wearing the VIP quail hunting model with the Jim Beam pockets.
By
Anonymous, at 10:30 AM
EPM, that's the joke Jon Stewart always makes.
Anon, "Jim Beam pockets" is pretty damn funny.
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mikevotes, at 11:43 AM
I don't have cable (or satellite) TV. I assure you this is just an example of great minds thinking alike.
All kidding aside, I simply read his name tag.
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-epm, at 3:07 PM
Okay, then as a fill in, whenever Jon Stewart imitates Cheney, he always mixes in Penguin sounds.
(That show is not worth getting cable for, but if you do get cable, it's about the best thing on there.)
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mikevotes, at 4:30 PM
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