{"id":840,"date":"2003-10-16T11:02:28","date_gmt":"2003-10-16T18:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/cheney-lashes-out-at-critics-of-policy-on-iraq\/"},"modified":"2003-10-16T11:02:28","modified_gmt":"2003-10-16T18:02:28","slug":"cheney-lashes-out-at-critics-of-policy-on-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/cheney-lashes-out-at-critics-of-policy-on-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheney Lashes Out at Critics of Policy on Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"On Listening\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/10\/16\/opinion\/16FRIE.html?th\">On Listening<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Cheney was speaking to 200 invited guests at the conservative Heritage Foundation \u2014 and even they were not allowed to ask any questions. Great. Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein issue messages from their caves through Al Jazeera, and Mr. Cheney issues messages from his bunker through Fox. America is pushing democracy in Iraq, but our own leaders won&#8217;t hold a real town hall meeting or a regular press conference. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to give a major speech on Iraq to an audience limited to your own supporters and not allow any questions, that&#8217;s not news \u2014 that&#8217;s an advertisement, and you should buy an ad on the Op-Ed page. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Every other word out of this administration&#8217;s mouth now is &#8220;terror&#8221; or &#8220;terrorism.&#8221; We have stopped exporting hope, the most important commodity America has. We now export only fear, so we end up importing everyone else&#8217;s fears right back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Listening Mr. Cheney was speaking to 200 invited guests at the conservative Heritage Foundation \u2014 and even they were not allowed to ask any questions. Great. Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein issue messages from their caves through Al Jazeera, and Mr. Cheney issues messages from his bunker through Fox. America is pushing democracy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/cheney-lashes-out-at-critics-of-policy-on-iraq\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cheney Lashes Out at Critics of Policy on Iraq<\/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-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","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=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}