Terrorists Practicing for Tet Offensive Blow Up Base During Cheney Visit
Veep's Pacemaker Get a Workout
One U.S. soldier was killed February 27 when terrorists targeted the U.S. Bagram airbase in Afghanistan being visited by Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney's deadly decision to travel outside D.C. comes at the conclusion of the Lewis Libby trial. A jury in Washington is deliberating the fate of Cheney's former honcho, who got caught up in Bush-Cheney efforts to smear former ambassador Joseph Wilson after he publicly debunked pre-war lies by the administration.
The truck bomb that exploded near the entrance to the base killed a South Korean soldier, a U.S. contractor and up to 20 Afghans.
It's the closest that Cheney, who fought hard to get five draft deferments during the Vietnam war, has ever come to experiencing combat.
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