Pearl's Family Smacks Down Cheney

Daniel Pearl's family heard Dickless Cheney invoke Pearl's name during one of his blusterthons in front of loyalty pledgers last week, and weren't too pleased. Cheney of course told them to stop being so sensitive and to go f*** themselves...

Daniel Pearl family asks Cheney not to use reporter's name

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The family of Daniel Pearl, a US journalist who was beheaded in Pakistan two years ago, urged US politicians not to use the reporter's name for political reasons after Vice President Dick Cheney invoked Pearl's name during a campaign event.

"The family of Daniel Pearl respectfully requests that his legacy remains non-partisan," The Wall Street Journal reporter's relatives said in a statement responding to Cheney's comments.

"We would like him to be remembered for what he was in his life, a passionate American and humanist who rose above political, religious and cultural divisions," the family said.

"We ask that Daniel's tragedy and legacy be used to bring people of all parties together against the hatred that took his life and thousands of others."

Cheney used Pearl's name in Ohio last week as he derided Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's pledge to wage a "more sensitive war on terror that reaches out to other nations." Kerry will face President George W. Bush, a Republican, in the November 2 election.

"A sensitive war will not destroy the evil men who killed 3,000 Americans and who seek the chemical, nuclear and biological weapons to kill hundreds of thousands more," Cheney said. "The men who beheaded Daniel Pearl and Paul Johnson will not be impressed by our sensitivity."