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So the guy Dick Cheney shot, a 78 year old , devout Texas Republican, gets out of the hospital yesterday and at his press conference apologizes to the Vice President and his family "for all they've had to go through this past week". I guess when he was in intensive care from his wounds and his heart attack he was too weak to say he was sorry sooner?...........If the Republicans ever need to turn to suicide bombers to retain power, this guy will be first in line. Bush asked for another $65 billion for his pursuit of "freedom on the march" in the Middle East this past week. And he'll get it. We can add this to the $300 billion already at work in Iraq. And here is what it has bought us so far: Muqtada al-Sadr, a violently anti-American Shiite cleric, who less than two years ago led bloody uprisings against our troops and recently was in Iran and Syria reinforcing his support for all things anti-American, is now the new Tom Delay of the new Iraqi Parliment. al-Sadr's followers now control the most seats in the Shiite majority alliance in the Parliment. In the recent election to retain Ibrahim al-Jaafa as Prime minister of Iraq, al-Sadr's followers under his direction voted for al-Jaafa who won by a single vote, because al-Jaafa promised to implement al-Sadr's political program. I don't think this program includes throwing flowers at our G.I.s, or joining Bush's march for freedom. These guys hate America, they have American blood all over their past and future, but they sure figured out quickly how to make suckers out of Bush and the American tax payers. Which all takes me back to the Cheney accidental shooting and the larger question it poses that the media and as usual the Democrats missed, the unprecedented INCOMPETENCE of our Republican leaders. These bums in power are bankrupting our future with their defecit spending on an unnecessary war of choice, costly, incompetent legislation, like the current prescription drug bill, and their failed response to Katrina (which cost almost as many lives as 911) and is now being revealed was another profit opportunity for no-bid contracts for Republican supporting companies. And the poster boy for this incompetence is Dick Cheney who nearly killed one of his biggest financial supporters because he can't shoot straight, all puns intended.