[Chehey's] staff insisted the sick vets be sequestered for two hours before Cheney's arrival and couldn't leave until he'd finished talking, officials confirmed.No rest rooms, did I forget to mention that?
"Word got back to us ... that this would be a prerequisite," said the veterans executive director, David Gorman, who noted the meeting hall doesn't have any rest rooms. "We told them it just wasn't acceptable."
We're talking about a bunch of men who left pieces of themselves on a battlefield somewhere, some of whom may take two hours just to go to the bathroom, and this idiot is mocking them.
Oh, but wait...there's the cringeworthy response:
Cheney's office acknowledged the security requests, but insisted he is sensitive to combat veterans' needs.I dunno, those bedbugs in Walter Reed...maybe they were there in lieu of stitches for the wounds?
Spokeswoman Megan Mitchell said the two-hour rule is "a recommendation, not a requirement," and "we always work to make sure the bathrooms are within the security perimeters."
"The vice president would never let us do anything that didn't help facilitate the needs of our veterans," Mitchell added.