{"id":803,"date":"2003-10-29T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-29T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/803.html"},"modified":"2003-10-29T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-29T15:10:00","slug":"trent-lott-sees-iraq-and-suggests-we-may-want-to-mow-the-whole-place-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/trent-lott-sees-iraq-and-suggests-we-may-want-to-mow-the-whole-place-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Trent Lott sees Iraq and suggests we may want to &#8216;mow the whole place down&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw (<a href=\"http:\/\/billmon.org\/archives\/000833.html\">via Billmon<\/a>) that Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) was asked for his thoughts on the current difficulties in Iraq. His answer was disturbing, even for him.<\/p>\n<p>At first, Lott expressed concern for troop deployment. &#8220;We need to have a different mix of troops, is the key,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehill.com\/news\/102903\/gopunity.aspx\">he told The Hill<\/a>. &#8220;We may need to move some troops around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So far, so good. However, Lott then shifted gears.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Honestly, it&#8217;s a little tougher than I thought it was going to be,&#8221; Lott said. In a sign of frustration, he offered an unorthodox military solution: &#8220;If we have to, we just mow the whole place down, see what happens. You&#8217;re dealing with insane suicide bombers who are killing our people, and we need to be very aggressive in taking them out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see, &#8220;mowing&#8221; an entire country down&#8230; yeah, I&#8217;d say that qualifies as being &#8220;very aggressive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Never mind all that talk about liberating Iraq, our compassion for the plight of the Iraqi people, and our desire to see the nation rebuilt into a burgeoning modern democracy. Lott sees a country where we&#8217;re having difficulties, so he suggests we &#8220;mow the whole place down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amazing, even for Lott.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw (via Billmon) that Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) was asked for his thoughts on the current difficulties in Iraq. His answer was disturbing, even for him. At first, Lott expressed concern for troop deployment. &#8220;We need to have a different mix of troops, is the key,&#8221; he told The Hill. &#8220;We may need to [&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-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","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=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}