{"id":216,"date":"2005-12-30T02:23:40","date_gmt":"2005-12-30T08:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=216"},"modified":"2005-12-29T21:24:08","modified_gmt":"2005-12-30T03:24:08","slug":"whatever-it-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/whatever-it-takes\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever it takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a \n\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/editorial_opinion\/oped\/articles\/2005\/12\/23\/bushs_false_choices?mode=PF\">Bush&#8217;s false choices<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>By Ellen Goodman<\/p>\n<p>We have been handed yet another in an endless series of false choices. Those who don&#8217;t blindly trust the <\/p>\n<p>president are dismissed as amnesia victims. Americans who don&#8217;t connect the dots from 9\/11 to Iraq or spying or torture are cast as <\/p>\n<p>actors living in a foolish, fearless, fantasy world. Indeed, 9\/11 was the day the president became the commander in chief. The words he <\/p>\n<p>often repeats were spoken to him by a rescue worker at the World Trade Center: &#8221;Whatever it takes.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But gradually, 9\/11 <\/p>\n<p>became the all-purpose excuse for . . . whatever it takes. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8221;Whatever it takes&#8221; does not mean &#8221;whatever the <\/p>\n<p>president says it takes.&#8221;<\/strong> It does not mean becoming our own worst enemies. It does not mean approving torture or domestic <\/p>\n<p>spying. And it most certainly does not mean watching silently as a commander in chief takes on the uniform of a generalissimo.<\/p>\n<p>Who <\/p>\n<p>owns September 11? The White House has built its own memorial and raised a stiff price of admission. It only allows in those who agree <\/p>\n<p>with the president. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush&#8217;s false choices By Ellen Goodman We have been handed yet another in an endless series of false choices. Those who don&#8217;t blindly trust the president are dismissed as amnesia victims. Americans who don&#8217;t connect the dots from 9\/11 to Iraq or spying or torture are cast as actors living in a foolish, fearless, fantasy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/whatever-it-takes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Whatever it takes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","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=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}