{"id":14352,"date":"2008-01-25T09:15:22","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T14:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14352.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T09:15:22","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T14:15:22","slug":"dont-know-much-about-foreign-policy-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/dont-know-much-about-foreign-policy-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t know much about foreign policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just how far gone is the Republican presidential field? We’re still<\/i> hearing talk<\/a> about Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n

RUSSERT: Governor Huckabee, was the war a good idea, and is it worth the cost in blood and treasure?<\/p>\n

HUCKABEE: I supported the president when he led us into this, as did the Democrats. And I think we owe him not a lot of scorn; we owe him our thanks that he had the courage to recognize there was a potential of weapons of mass destruction, and whether than wait until we had another attack, he went and made sure that it wasn’t going to happen from Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n

Now, everybody can look back and say, ‘Oh, well, we didn’t find the weapons.’ It doesn’t mean they weren’t there. Just because you didn’t find every Easter egg didn’t mean that it wasn’t planted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Look, I can appreciate the fact that Mike Huckabee is frequently confused about current events. I can even appreciate the fact that he’s a busy guy, and probably doesn’t have time to read, you know, books and stuff. I can even appreciate the notion that Huckabee is running on a vaguely-theocratic pseudo-populist platform that doesn’t have anything to do with foreign policy.<\/p>\n

But in less than two months, the war in Iraq will have entered its sixth<\/i> year. That Mike Huckabee is willing to argue, during a nationally televised debate, with a straight face, that Saddam Hussein may very well have had a secret stash of weapons of mass destruction is just humiliating. I’ve frequently been frustrated by Huckabee’s bizarre beliefs and ideas, but this is one of the first times I’ve felt sorry for the poor guy.<\/p>\n

After the debate, Huckabee actually managed to make it worse.
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\nChris Matthews, to his credit, asked Huckabee about his inexplicable WMD remarks, which are obviously and demonstrably false.<\/p>\n

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The clip shows Huckabee arguing that there’s a “good chance” Saddam’s WMD “may have gone to Jordan.” Jordan<\/i>? Are you kidding<\/i> me? Isn’t the talking point for right-wing loonies that the WMD were sent to Syria<\/i>?<\/p>\n

Over the course of the last few months, Mike Huckabee has shown, repeatedly<\/a>, that he has a child-like understanding of world events and foreign policy, but last night should have removed all doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just how far gone is the Republican presidential field? We’re still hearing talk about Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction. RUSSERT: Governor Huckabee, was the war a good idea, and is it worth the cost in blood and treasure? HUCKABEE: I supported the president when he led us into this, as did the Democrats. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14352","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}