{"id":957,"date":"2004-09-16T01:55:32","date_gmt":"2004-09-16T01:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=957"},"modified":"2020-08-21T01:56:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T01:56:26","slug":"bush-i-he-had-some-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2004\/09\/16\/bush-i-he-had-some-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush I &#8211; he had some sense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Had we gone into Baghdad &#8212; we could have done it, you guys could have done it, you could have been there in 48 hours &#8212; and then what? Which sergeant, which private, whose life would be at stake in perhaps a fruitless hunt in an urban guerilla war to find the most-secure dictator in the world? Whose life would be on my hands as the commander-in-chief because I, unilaterally, went beyond the international law, went beyond the stated mission, and said we&#8217;re going to show our macho? We&#8217;re going into Baghdad. We&#8217;re going to be an occupying power &#8212; America in an Arab land &#8212; with no allies at our side. It would have been disastrous.<\/p><cite>GEORGE H W BUSH, 1998 speech to Gulf war veterans<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had we gone into Baghdad &#8212; we could have done it, you guys could have done it, you could have been there in 48 hours &#8212; and then what? Which sergeant, which private, whose life would be at stake in perhaps a fruitless hunt in an urban guerilla war to find the most-secure dictator in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}