{"id":1949,"date":"2004-06-16T09:17:49","date_gmt":"2004-06-16T14:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1949.html"},"modified":"2004-06-16T09:17:49","modified_gmt":"2004-06-16T14:17:49","slug":"bush-probably-wont-want-to-use-the-same-speech-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/bush-probably-wont-want-to-use-the-same-speech-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush probably won&#8217;t want to use the same speech this time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just two days after Dick Cheney was in central Florida <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/Politics\/ap20040615_10.html\">lying about Saddam-al Queda connections<\/a>, Bush will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampatrib.com\/MGBH7O9XIVD.html\">in Tampa today<\/a> to highlight his national security credentials.<\/p>\n<p>The choice of venue seems like a fairly obvious choice: Bush will be speaking to troops at MacDill Air Force Base. The interesting part will be contrasting today&#8217;s remarks with his last visit to the same base.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, take a look at what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2003\/03\/20030326-4.html\">Bush told the troops<\/a> in March 2003:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the early stages of this war, the world is getting a clearer view of the Iraqi regime and the evil at its heart. In the ranks of that regime are men whose idea of courage is to brutalize unarmed prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Our enemy in this war is the Iraqi regime, not the people who have suffered under it. As we bring justice to a dictator, today we started bringing humanitarian aid in large amounts to an oppressed land. <i>We are treating Iraqi prisoners of war according the highest standards of law and decency<\/i>. (emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t imagine Bush will return to the subject today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just two days after Dick Cheney was in central Florida lying about Saddam-al Queda connections, Bush will be in Tampa today to highlight his national security credentials. The choice of venue seems like a fairly obvious choice: Bush will be speaking to troops at MacDill Air Force Base. The interesting part will be contrasting today&#8217;s [&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-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","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=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}