{"id":1187,"date":"2004-02-03T12:10:26","date_gmt":"2004-02-03T17:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1187.html"},"modified":"2004-02-03T12:10:26","modified_gmt":"2004-02-03T17:10:26","slug":"we-dont-know-yet-what-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/we-dont-know-yet-what-we-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We don&#8217;t know yet what we thought&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A7375-2004Feb2.html\">Post&#8217;s Richard Leiby<\/a> caught a fun Bushism from yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/02\/20040202-1.html\">cabinet meeting<\/a> at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Terry Moran asked Bush, &#8220;Do you think that the country is owed an explanation about the Iraq intelligence failures before the election, so that voters have this information when they elect a new President?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bush began by explaining how dangerous Saddam Hussein was. But then he offered us this gem:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we don&#8217;t know yet is what we thought and what the Iraqi Survey Group has found, and we want to look at that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not only was all of the intelligence wrong, but Bush believes we don&#8217;t even know &#8220;what we thought&#8221; before the war? No wonder things are such a mess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Post&#8217;s Richard Leiby caught a fun Bushism from yesterday&#8217;s cabinet meeting at the White House. Terry Moran asked Bush, &#8220;Do you think that the country is owed an explanation about the Iraq intelligence failures before the election, so that voters have this information when they elect a new President?&#8221; Bush began by explaining how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","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=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}