Just desserts

[sunnysan]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4594992.stm

I am sure he will pull through though, only the good die young.





Dick Cheney rushed to hospital

The vice-president has a history of heart problems

US Vice-President Dick Cheney has been rushed to hospital in Washington after suffering shortness of breath and apparent fluid retention.

Mr Cheney was retaining fluids because of medication he was taking for a foot complaint, a hospital spokeswoman said.

His office said he was taken to hospital at 0300 (0800 GMT) but is expected to go home later on Monday.

Mr Cheney, 64, has a history of heart trouble. He suffered his fourth heart attack in 2000.

He was fitted with a pacemaker in 2001.

He also had an operation to remove blood clots in his knees last year.

A hospital spokesman said Mr Cheney's foot complaint was not connected to the September 2005 operation on his knees or to his history of heart attacks, the Associated Press news agency reports.

An examination of electrical activity in Mr Cheney's heart had found nothing unusual on Monday, a statement from his office said.

It said he had been placed on a diuretic to help get rid of the fluids.

[white-anglo-reactionary]

Serve in Vietnam? I have other priorities

It's hard to imagine a more nasty, venal individual who has sought political power purely to enrich himself and his cabal, and thinks so little of riding roughshod over centuries of laws protecting individual rights. Except for Tory Bliar.

[Dundeegeorge]

Vietnam. Vietnam!

It's hard to imagine a more nasty, venal individual who has sought political power purely to enrich himself and his cabal, and thinks so little of riding roughshod over centuries of laws protecting individual rights. Except for Tory Bliar.

How many vietnam vets does it take to change a lightbulb?
You don't know. Well of course you don't know. You weren't there, man.

(is that one too subtle for this board?)

[Phoenix]

How many vietnam vets does it take to change a lightbulb?
You don't know. Well of course you don't know. You weren't there, man.

(is that one too subtle for this board?)

Is that a North Veitnamese light bulb or a Southern Vietnamese light bulb, or an Allies Light bulb...sod it throw all the troops at changing it and ask questions afterwards

[Jabberwocky]

Absolutely, let's hope he dies a slow long miserable death as he can't go to hell because it doesn't exist.

[ALM]

No wonder Chico's disappeared! What with Ariel Sharon last week, that's two of his 'big-hitting' polticians 'kicked into touch'.