via the New York Daily News
Cheney was supposed to speak to the Disabled American Veterans at it's August convention, but they told him to forget about it. Why? Due to security demands, they were required to get up at dawn, shower, eat, put on their prosthetics; and then they couldn't leave to use the bathroom, which was outside.
What a control freak.
His 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.
"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."
When Cheney spoke to the group in 2004, his handlers imposed the same stringent security lockdown, upsetting members, officials said.
Many of the vets are elderly and left pieces of themselves on foreign battlefields since World War II, and others were crippled by recent service in Iraq and Afghanistan. For health reasons, many can't be stuck in a room for hours.
"It was a huge imposition on our delegates," added David Autry, another Disabled American Veterans official.
So, they canceled on him.
Cheney's office stated that he was "sensitive to combat veteran's needs."
Only a wag would ask them to piss on Dick.