To the editor,

This is in response to the article 'Cheney Attempts to Kill Hunting Partner In Accident' it mentioned that Cheney had a 28 gauge shotgun. What was not mentioned and hidden by the Bush Regime was the fact that Cheney's shotgun had a pistol grip and fully automatic. Clearly a gun illegal for 'quail hunting'.

Methinks he was trying to kill Mr Whittington and get away with it. After all Mr. Whittington has lodged 6 lawsuits against Haliburton.

John Kerry
Boston, MA

Are you trying to be funny......?

To the Editor:

The most remarkable aspect of the recent vice-presidential debacle is that the press is dogging the White House about minutiae.

The shooting was a personal tragedy for Harry Whittington, of course, but it was also an accident and totally unrelated to Dick Cheney's job as vice president.

I'd be glad if the press suddenly rediscovered its journalistic diligence and backbone, but let's hope reporters use them to ask the administration tough questions about Scooter Libby and Valerie Wilson, Halliburton contracts, communication and response during Hurricane Katrina or the mounting death toll of inadequately outfitted soldiers in Iraq.

We don't need to know when, exactly, the White House learned that Mr. Cheney is a lousy quail hunter. Keep your eye on the ball.

Mike Boyce
Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 14, 2006

To the Editor:

Why does Vice President Dick Cheney spend so much of his free time hurting and killing animals? What pleasure does he get from this?

Irene Muschel
New York, Feb. 14, 2006

Iwonder what would have happened if one of us shot our buddy while hunting hmmmm

Cheney Attempts to Kill Hunting Partner In Accident