{"id":2340,"date":"2004-08-16T10:23:44","date_gmt":"2004-08-16T15:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2340.html"},"modified":"2004-08-16T10:23:44","modified_gmt":"2004-08-16T15:23:44","slug":"it-depends-on-what-the-meaning-of-oppose-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/it-depends-on-what-the-meaning-of-oppose-is\/","title":{"rendered":"It depends on what the meaning of &#8216;oppose&#8217; is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bush, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0408\/12\/lkl.00.html\">last week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Larry King: You first were opposed to the 9\/11 Commission and then changed. Why?<\/p>\n<p>George Bush: Not really.<\/p>\n<p>King: You weren&#8217;t opposed?<\/p>\n<p>Bush: Well, I just wanted to make sure that it was done the right way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bush, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/sept11\/2002\/05\/23\/bush-warnings.htm\">in May 2002<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Bush said Thursday he opposes establishing a special commission to probe how the government dealt with terror warnings before Sept. 11, saying the matter should be dealt with by congressional intelligence committees.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Bush said the investigation of possible intelligence lapses should be confined to Congress despite a call by Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and others for a special commission.<\/p>\n<p>Bush said the members of the Senate and House intelligence committees &#8220;understand the obligations of upholding our secrets and our sources and methods of collecting intelligence. And therefore I think that&#8217;s the best place for Congress to take a good look at the events leading up to Sept. 11.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush, last week: Larry King: You first were opposed to the 9\/11 Commission and then changed. Why? George Bush: Not really. King: You weren&#8217;t opposed? Bush: Well, I just wanted to make sure that it was done the right way. Bush, in May 2002: President Bush said Thursday he opposes establishing a special commission to [&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-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","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=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}