{"id":3628,"date":"2005-02-28T09:56:31","date_gmt":"2005-02-28T14:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3628.html"},"modified":"2005-02-28T09:56:31","modified_gmt":"2005-02-28T14:56:31","slug":"blessed-are-the-warmongers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/blessed-are-the-warmongers\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed are the warmongers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not content with one venture into Mess O’ Potamia, at least one Republican lawmaker seems anxious to start another<\/a> — this time, with nukes.<\/p>\n

Now we know where Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas) thinks the weapons of mass destruction are buried: in Syria, which he said he’d like to nuke to smithereens. <\/p>\n

Speaking at a veterans’ celebration at Suncreek United Methodist Church in Allen, Texas, on Feb. 19, Johnson told the crowd that he explained his theory to President Bush and Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) on the porch of the White House one night. <\/p>\n

Johnson said he told the president that night, “Syria is the problem. Syria is where those weapons of mass destruction are, in my view. You know, I can fly an F-15, put two nukes on ’em and I’ll make one pass. We won’t have to worry about Syria anymore.”<\/p>\n

The crowd roared with applause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is so twisted, it’s hard to know where to start. Which of these is the most outrageous part of this story?<\/p>\n

* That a sitting member of Congress is bragging<\/em> about his desire to drop nuclear weapons?<\/p>\n

* That Johnson has shared this idea with the president?<\/p>\n

* That Johnson’s favored approach to non-proliferation is an unprovoked nuclear attack?<\/p>\n

* That this speech was delivered in a church<\/i>?<\/p>\n

* That Johnson’s audience “roared with applause”?<\/p>\n

Carpetbagger reports, you decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not content with one venture into Mess O’ Potamia, at least one Republican lawmaker seems anxious to start another — this time, with nukes. Now we know where Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas) thinks the weapons of mass destruction are buried: in Syria, which he said he’d like to nuke to smithereens. Speaking at a veterans’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628","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=3628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}