{"id":1595,"date":"2005-06-29T14:33:56","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T21:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/the-white-house-is-completely-disconnected-from-reality-sen-chuck-hagel-r-neb\/"},"modified":"2005-06-29T14:33:56","modified_gmt":"2005-06-29T21:33:56","slug":"the-white-house-is-completely-disconnected-from-reality-sen-chuck-hagel-r-neb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-white-house-is-completely-disconnected-from-reality-sen-chuck-hagel-r-neb\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The White House is completely disconnected from reality,&#8221; Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Bush Says War Is Worth Sacrifice\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/06\/28\/AR2005062801532.html?referrer=email\">Bush Says War Is Worth Sacrifice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Address Urges Public to Back His Iraq Policy<\/p>\n<p>By Peter Baker and Dana Milbank<br \/>\nWashington Post Staff Writers<br \/>\nWednesday, June 29, 2005; Page A01<\/p>\n<p>FORT BRAGG, N.C., June 28 &#8212; President Bush appealed to the American public Tuesday night to remember &#8220;the lessons of September 11th&#8221; &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Surrounding himself with uniformed soldiers and standing before a backdrop emblazoned with American flags, Bush portrayed the two-year-old war in Iraq as the logical extension of a larger struggle that began when hijackers slammed passenger jets into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Bush invoked Sept. 11 five times in his speech and referred to it by implication several more times. Although he has previously agreed with investigators that there is &#8220;no evidence&#8221; of a link between Saddam Hussein&#8217;s government and the attacks masterminded by Osama bin Laden&#8217;s al Qaeda, he used much of his speech to depict the militants in Iraq as the same breed of Islamic terrorist who struck the United States. The White House titled his remarks a discussion on the &#8220;War on Terror,&#8221; not Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This war reached our shores on September 11th, 2001,&#8221; Bush said. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only way our enemies can succeed is if we forget the lessons of September 11th &#8230;&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>[T]errorists &#8220;are trying to shake our will in Iraq, just as they tried to shake our will on September 11th, 2001.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Bush&#8217;s insistence that waging the fight in Iraq is containing terrorists who might otherwise strike in America is also fueling argument. As critics see it, <b>the Iraq war is creating a breeding ground for terrorists.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush Says War Is Worth Sacrifice Address Urges Public to Back His Iraq Policy By Peter Baker and Dana Milbank Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, June 29, 2005; Page A01 FORT BRAGG, N.C., June 28 &#8212; President Bush appealed to the American public Tuesday night to remember &#8220;the lessons of September 11th&#8221; &#8230;. Surrounding himself &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-white-house-is-completely-disconnected-from-reality-sen-chuck-hagel-r-neb\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The White House is completely disconnected from reality,&#8221; Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.)<\/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-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","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=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}