No no no, not for the wars and the no-bid contracts for his friends but something more easy to admit and apologie for. Yet...Noooooo.

The initial reports were fudged. Mr Whittington was shot by VP Dick Dead-Eye Chainy on a hunting venture...actually they were just driving by a field, got out and opened up on some unsuspecting fowl.

The victim was first said to have minor wounds but a recent story pointed out that Mt Whittington was close to losing his life with buckshot near his heart, and to boot had a heart attack while in the hospital.

Since Dick Cheney shot him, Harry Whittington's aim has been to move on

"Whittington sweeps a hand up to his dusky face and points near his right eye, then to the right side of his forehead. The eye socket, hairline and hand have birdshot pellets lodged in them, too. If you look closely -- and strangers occasionally sidle up to him to do just that -- the accident's remnants are evident; there's a tiny bump in each spot.

Every so often, for months afterward, some of the lead in Whittington's body worked its way to the surface. But many pieces remain too deeply embedded to remove, including one near his heart. At 82, Whittington knows he will live the rest of his days with about 30 pieces of shot inside him. Somehow, he jokes, he can get through a metal detector without causing a commotion.

"For Whittington, the accident was not just physically traumatic but introduced chaos into his orderly life. Reporters camped outside the hospital, where he spent a week in intensive care. Someone posed as a member of the hospital's staff and tried to sneak into his room to take a photo, necessitating a security detail at his door. When he was released a week later, a battered and exhausted Whittington did the apologizing: "My family and I are deeply sorry for all that Vice President Cheney and his family have had to go through this past week."

HE APOLOGIZED TO CHAINY?

How F'ked up is that?

"No one in the vice president's entourage said a word about it publicly until the next morning, when Katharine Armstrong, the daughter of the ranch's owner, spoke with a reporter from a local newspaper. Armstrong blamed Whittington for blundering into Cheney's line of fire, a comment that White House spokesman Scott McClellan repeated later that day. Investigators didn't speak to Cheney until the next morning, and Cheney didn't address the issue in public until four days later. In a TV interview on Fox News back in Washington, he took responsibility for the shooting ("Ultimately, I am the guy who pulled the trigger . . . ") but offered no apologies.

What an arsehole...

Dick Cheney is an arrogant SOB who's unlikely to apologize to anyone for any of the myriad things he's done wrong. Why are you surprised?

And you know him personally?

Like I said before. How do you know he didn't personally apologize to him?

HUmmm.

Makes the story suspect.

"The victim was first said to have minor wounds but a recent story pointed out that Mt Whittington was close to losing his life with buckshot near his heart, and to boot had a heart attack while in the hospital.

Since Dick Cheney shot him, Harry Whittington's aim has been to move on

"Whittington sweeps a hand up to his dusky face and points near his right eye, then to the right side of his forehead. The eye socket, hairline and hand have birdshot pellets lodged in them, too. If you look closely -- and strangers occasionally sidle up to him to do just that -- the accident's remnants are evident; there's a tiny bump in each spot. "

There is very little possibility that buckshot which hit in the upper (bony) portion of the head (i.e forehead, eye socket and hairline) could have also hit the heart. (there is also little chance that buckshot on the surface in those areas could have 'migrated' to the heart.

Spin is simply another word for lie.

Why must some persist in bringing up such nonsense over and over ad naeusem.

They say ignorance is bliss. There is no law requiring anyone to make a PUBLIC apology for something like this. When you can find something with Whittington actually saying Cheney didn't apologize to him then you may have a story. Until then the whole post and negativity towards Cheney is just rediculas. If you don't like the man post a story of TRUTH.

this whole post is pointless...

Yet...here you are again...ya must be part of the rewirting of history that's going on to save these low life POS's legacies.