{"id":1312,"date":"2004-08-31T13:08:18","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T20:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/fire-him-anyway\/"},"modified":"2004-08-31T13:08:18","modified_gmt":"2004-08-31T20:08:18","slug":"fire-him-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/fire-him-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Him Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The New York Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/national\/AP-CVN-Bush.html?hp\">After Citing Doubt, Bush Declares &#8216;We Will Win&#8217; Terror War<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a speech to the national convention of the American Legion, Bush said, &#8220;We meet today in a time of war for our country, a war we did not start yet one that we will win.<\/p>\n<p>That statement differed from Bush&#8217;s earlier comment, aired Monday in a pre-taped television interview, that &#8220;I don&#8217;t think you can win&#8221; the war on terror.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I hesitate to fling feces over this because I&#8217;m happy (and stunned)   to see Bush speak thoughtfully. And, he is right that there will never be a victory in the &#8216;War on Terror&#8217; any more than we have been victorious in the Wars on Poverty or Drugs. This has simply become a tool for holding onto power.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Right has made his constancy an issue, even though it is evidence of unreasonableness. So, this is just the latest flip-flop from Bush, just one of many. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Citing Doubt, Bush Declares &#8216;We Will Win&#8217; Terror War In a speech to the national convention of the American Legion, Bush said, &#8220;We meet today in a time of war for our country, a war we did not start yet one that we will win. That statement differed from Bush&#8217;s earlier comment, aired Monday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/fire-him-anyway\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fire Him Anyway<\/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-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","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=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}