{"id":1120,"date":"2004-01-22T10:39:01","date_gmt":"2004-01-22T15:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1120.html"},"modified":"2004-01-22T10:39:01","modified_gmt":"2004-01-22T15:39:01","slug":"still-trying-to-figure-out-what-program-activities-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/still-trying-to-figure-out-what-program-activities-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Still trying to figure out what &#8216;program activities&#8217; are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this, thought it was hilarious, and decided to share it with you.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the WMD issue in the State of the Union the other night, Bush said the following:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[T]he Kay report identified dozens of weapons of mass destruction-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, it was odd of Bush to rely on a Kay report that undermined the administration&#8217;s claims, not bolstered them. But NYU professor Siva Vaidhyanathan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyu.edu\/classes\/siva\/2004_01_21_blogarchive.html#107468892477208509\">had some comical comments<\/a> about the other part of Bush&#8217;s bogus claim&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A cheese-food product is closer real cheese than &#8220;weapons of mass destruction-related program activities&#8221; are to real weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Try this at work during your annual review: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well no, I have not finished that project and have no results. But my desk has some evidence of dozens of project-related program activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this, thought it was hilarious, and decided to share it with you. Addressing the WMD issue in the State of the Union the other night, Bush said the following: &#8220;[T]he Kay report identified dozens of weapons of mass destruction-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}