{"id":710,"date":"2003-10-06T09:14:43","date_gmt":"2003-10-06T14:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/710.html"},"modified":"2003-10-06T09:14:43","modified_gmt":"2003-10-06T14:14:43","slug":"is-bush-hinting-that-were-not-really-a-free-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/is-bush-hinting-that-were-not-really-a-free-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Bush hinting that we&#8217;re not really a &#8216;free nation&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed the other day (<a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2003_09_28_atrios_archive.html#106519602880955751\">via Atrios<\/a>) that Bush offered an interesting comment about Iraq at a White House event on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Free nations don&#8217;t develop weapons of mass destruction,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2003\/10\/20031003-4.html\">Bush said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While that may sound like a nice sentiment, it raises an important question: Don&#8217;t <i>we<\/i> develop weapons of mass destruction? Indeed, with our arsenal of nuclear missiles, doesn&#8217;t the United States have more WMD than any other country?<\/p>\n<p>Just a thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed the other day (via Atrios) that Bush offered an interesting comment about Iraq at a White House event on Friday. &#8220;Free nations don&#8217;t develop weapons of mass destruction,&#8221; Bush said. While that may sound like a nice sentiment, it raises an important question: Don&#8217;t we develop weapons of mass destruction? Indeed, with our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","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=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}