{"id":1373,"date":"2004-10-07T11:19:23","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T18:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/dick-flips-flops\/"},"modified":"2004-10-07T11:19:23","modified_gmt":"2004-10-07T18:19:23","slug":"dick-flips-flops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/dick-flips-flops\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Flips &amp; Flops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"dangerousmeta!\" href=\"http:\/\/dangerousmeta.com\/\">dangerousmeta!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blast from the past; a quote from Dick Cheney in 1992:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<b>And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam Hussein worth?<\/b> And the answer is not very damned many. So I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait [in 1991], but also when the president made the decision that we&#8217;d achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dangerousmeta! Blast from the past; a quote from Dick Cheney in 1992: &#8220;And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam Hussein worth? And the answer is not very damned many. So I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait [in 1991], but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/dick-flips-flops\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dick Flips &amp; Flops<\/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-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","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=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}