I suppose there is a superficial likeness...

...but it's hard to believe that VP Dick Cheney, the only man living who can see Weapons of Mass Destruction at a distance 10,000 miles, was unable to detect the difference between his old buddy, 78 year old lawyer, Harry Whittington, and 'Coturnix coturnix', otherwise known as the Common Quail

No. I'm with the conspiracy theorists on this one. The two of them were out with a couple of middle- age broads at some drunken orgy. Dick was miffed that the older man was getting all the well.. dick and took him out in a fit of jealousy

Now worried he will talk they have locked HW away in a 'hospital' run by some Neo-Christians and induced a heart attack. No press allowed in to see the patient, of course, although apparantly he's fit enough to have restarted working

I'm predicting that sometime down the road we'll get a bulletin reporting a relapse and subsequent demise. Naturally this will be totally unrelated to the shooting incident and not unexpected in a man nearing 80

In the unlikely event that the VP should venture North, the one on the left is the brown-breasted Martin