{"id":1609,"date":"2004-04-16T15:19:38","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T20:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1609.html"},"modified":"2004-04-16T15:19:38","modified_gmt":"2004-04-16T20:19:38","slug":"lets-not-quibble-about-who-killed-whom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/lets-not-quibble-about-who-killed-whom\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s not quibble about who killed whom&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/04\/20040416-4.html\">press conference<\/a> with Prime Minister Tony Blair this morning, Bush was asked about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A17347-2004Apr16.html\">Bob Woodward&#8217;s revelations<\/a> that the White House began secretly planning an invasion of Iraq shortly after 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the convincing, well thought-out answer Bush provided to quell what may soon be a major controversy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You know, I can&#8217;t remember exact dates that far back.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t make this stuff up if I tried.<\/p>\n<p>Just for good measure, Bush added, &#8220;So I don&#8217;t remember in times of &#8212; what was being developed or not being developed&#8230;. I&#8217;d have to get back to you about a specific moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m afraid he&#8217;ll have to do better than this. I&#8217;m also afraid he can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At his press conference with Prime Minister Tony Blair this morning, Bush was asked about Bob Woodward&#8217;s revelations that the White House began secretly planning an invasion of Iraq shortly after 9\/11. Here&#8217;s the convincing, well thought-out answer Bush provided to quell what may soon be a major controversy: &#8220;You know, I can&#8217;t remember exact [&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-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","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=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}