{"id":1187,"date":"2004-04-12T09:34:45","date_gmt":"2004-04-12T16:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/i-pray-every-day-theres-less-casualty\/"},"modified":"2004-04-12T09:34:45","modified_gmt":"2004-04-12T16:34:45","slug":"i-pray-every-day-theres-less-casualty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/i-pray-every-day-theres-less-casualty\/","title":{"rendered":"I pray every day there&#8217;s less casualty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Remarks by the President to the Travel Pool\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/04\/20040411.html\">Remarks by the President to the Travel Pool<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Obviously, I pray every day there&#8217;s less casualty.<\/b> But I know what we&#8217;re doing in Iraq is right. It&#8217;s right for long-term peace. It&#8217;s right for the security of our country. <b>And it&#8217;s hard work.<\/b> And <b>today, on bended knee, I thank the good Lord for protecting those of our troops overseas<\/b>, and our coalition troops and <i>innocent<\/i> Iraqis who suffer at the hands of some of these senseless killings by <b>people who are trying to shake our will<\/b>. &#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This inarticulate fool thinks it&#8217;s in god&#8217;s hands, not his. He thinks this is a contest of wills and &#8221;hard work.&#8221; mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[In response to a question about the now-famous Presidential Daily Briefing&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>PRESIDENT: Right, and had they found something, they would have reported it to me. That&#8217;s &#8212; we were doing precisely <b>what the American people <i>expects<\/i> us to do<\/b>: run down every lead, look at every scintilla of intelligence, and follow up on it. But there was &#8212; <b>again, I can&#8217;t say it <i>as<\/i> plainly as this<\/b>: Had I known, we would have acted. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i>I am satisfied that I never saw<\/i> any intelligence that indicated there was going to be an attack on America &#8212; at a time and a place, an attack. Of course we knew that America was hated by Osama bin Laden. That was obvious. The question was, who was going to attack us, when and where, and with what. And <b>you might recall the hijacking that was referred to in the PDB. It was not a hijacking of an airplane to fly into a building<\/b>, it was hijacking of airplanes in order to free somebody that was being held as a prisoner in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remarks by the President to the Travel Pool Obviously, I pray every day there&#8217;s less casualty. But I know what we&#8217;re doing in Iraq is right. It&#8217;s right for long-term peace. It&#8217;s right for the security of our country. And it&#8217;s hard work. And today, on bended knee, I thank the good Lord for protecting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/i-pray-every-day-theres-less-casualty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I pray every day there&#8217;s less casualty<\/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-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","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=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}