{"id":757,"date":"2003-10-16T10:23:14","date_gmt":"2003-10-16T15:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/757.html"},"modified":"2003-10-16T10:23:14","modified_gmt":"2003-10-16T15:23:14","slug":"nethercutt-compares-schools-to-soldiers-and-comes-to-the-wrong-conclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/nethercutt-compares-schools-to-soldiers-and-comes-to-the-wrong-conclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Nethercutt compares schools to soldiers &#8212; and comes to the wrong conclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got an insane &#8220;quote of the day&#8221; for you.<\/p>\n<p>I saw (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2003_10_12.html#002087\">via Josh Marshall<\/a>) that George Nethercutt (R-Wash.) got a little &#8220;carried away&#8221; after he returned from a four-day trip to Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Nethercutt, who is running for the Senate against incumbent Sen. Patty Murray (D), said he saw strong progress being made in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The story of what we&#8217;ve done in the postwar period is remarkable,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/143771_nethercutt14.html\">Nethercutt said<\/a>. &#8220;It is a better and more important story than losing a couple of soldiers every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Huh? Over the last several months, we&#8217;ve helped open a few schools and brought power to some of Iraq. Nethercutt sees this progress and believes it&#8217;s a &#8220;more important story than losing a couple of soldiers every day&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many families of the troops in Iraq would agree with Rep. Nethercutt&#8217;s analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got an insane &#8220;quote of the day&#8221; for you. I saw (via Josh Marshall) that George Nethercutt (R-Wash.) got a little &#8220;carried away&#8221; after he returned from a four-day trip to Iraq. Nethercutt, who is running for the Senate against incumbent Sen. Patty Murray (D), said he saw strong progress being made in Iraq. [&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-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","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=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}