Even if Dick and GW have taken their eye off the bad guys, the bad guys have obviously not taken their eye off the Dick.

one way or the other.

Hope the guy that so easily sends others to die, or to get maimed then ignored by multiple layers of our government/military got a small taste of putting your life on the line.

Oh wait.  Wasn't he miles away from the blast? 

Wouldn't that be like me saying my life was in danger b/c I was mere miles away from the Pentagon on 9/11?

I have no feelings for a man with "other priorities" during the Vietnam War who dodged without supporting the anti-war cause (what a wimp).  Now Cheney is a first-class war criminal.

In no way, shape or form does this reflect my view, or the views of Raising Kaine.  In fact, the comment disgusts me. I'd delete it, but I think we should leave it here just so people can see this particular individual's mentality level. 

By the way, I don't like Dick Cheney AT ALL, but politics in this country are decided by elections and the legal system, not by violence of any kind. I'm really amazed that anyone would write something like this.

Comments like this will get you banned very quickly from Raising Kaine.

...the scumbag Reed who tried to kill President Palmer last night?  What a jerk.  Tom Lennox might be a right wing radical, but he is a solid guy.

I'm sorry to offend anyone and I don't personally advocate violence, but I think Cheney is a bigger threat to the country than Al-Qaeda. Just my opinion.

...but I would never advocate or applaud his death.  Here's the deal: the American people re-elected for Bush/Cheney in 2004, and now we're stuck with the worst Administration in American history until January 2009.  It sucks, but that's just the sad fact of the matter.

I don't think this was really a plot to kill Cheney. This TPM reader has it right: it was the sort of bombing that's unfortunately all too common nowadays, and because Cheney happened to be there it's now a huge story.

...here's what the Washington Post is reporting:

"We wanted to target ... Cheney," Taliban spokesman Mullah Hayat Khan told Reuters by phone from an undisclosed location.

What evidence is there that the Taliban knew Cheney was coming? I'm still with the TPM reader:

But because a Taliban spokesman was clever enough to link the attack to Cheney, a fairly routine bombing is now a leading story around the world, and the Taliban has been able to turn a partly thwarted attack (the bomber was forced to detonate his load outside the base) into an enormous propoganda coup. [...] It's in the Taliban's interest to convince the world that they're well-organized enough to have targeted Cheney, and in Cheney's interest not to expend too much effort rebutting that claim.

n/t

Looks like the stock market took a dive on this news. It seems to be going up some in the last 15 minutes.