{"id":1020,"date":"2004-01-14T11:24:58","date_gmt":"2004-01-14T18:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/bush-is-breathtakingly-arrogant\/"},"modified":"2004-01-14T11:24:58","modified_gmt":"2004-01-14T18:24:58","slug":"bush-is-breathtakingly-arrogant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bush-is-breathtakingly-arrogant\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush is &#8216;breathtakingly arrogant&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Reuters | Latest Financial News \/ Full News Coverage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&amp;storyID=4126959\">Kennedy: Bush Broke Faith with Americans on Iraq<\/a> By Vicki Allen, Reuters<\/p>\n<p>[Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts] said <b>the administration &#8221;has broken faith with the American people, <i>aided and abetted by a congressional majority willing to pursue ideology at any price<\/i>, even the price of distorting the truth.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>He also said the Iraq war has made the effort to stop terrorism more difficult. &#8221;We knocked al Qaeda down in the war in Afghanistan, but we let it regroup by going to war in Iraq,&#8221; he said of Osama bin Laden&#8217;s network, blamed for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;War in Iraq was a war of choice, not a war of necessity. It was a product they were methodically rolling out,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Kennedy branded the administration as &#8220;<b>breathtakingly arrogant<\/b>,&#8221; convinced &#8220;they know what is in America&#8217;s interest, but they refuse to debate it honestly.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kennedy: Bush Broke Faith with Americans on Iraq By Vicki Allen, Reuters [Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts] said the administration &#8221;has broken faith with the American people, aided and abetted by a congressional majority willing to pursue ideology at any price, even the price of distorting the truth.&#8221; He also said the Iraq war has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bush-is-breathtakingly-arrogant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bush is &#8216;breathtakingly arrogant&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}