{"id":1888,"date":"2005-10-02T17:23:04","date_gmt":"2005-10-02T21:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2005-10-02T17:23:04","modified_gmt":"2005-10-02T21:23:04","slug":"andy-rooney-rails-against-iraq-war-military-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1888","title":{"rendered":"Andy Rooney Rails Against Iraq War & Military Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest blogged by David Edwards<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/a>In a moment of true clarity on CBS’s 60 Minutes<\/i>, Andy Rooney says what many Americans are thinking about the Iraq war and the threat of the military-industrial complex. <\/p>\n

Andy begins his rant asking:<\/p>\n

I’m not really clear how much a billion dollars is but the United States \u2014 our United States \u2014 is spending $5.6 billion a month fighting this war in Iraq that we never should have gotten into. <\/p>\n

We still have 139,000 soldiers in Iraq today. <\/p>\n

Almost 2,000 Americans have died there. For what?<\/p><\/div>\n

Reading the transcript<\/a> may help if you find yourself in a state of shock or disbelief after watching this clip.<\/p>\n

CBS Streaming Video in Windows Media format…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Guest blogged by David Edwards In a moment of true clarity on CBS’s 60 Minutes, Andy Rooney says what many Americans are thinking about the Iraq war and the threat of the military-industrial complex. Andy begins his rant asking: I’m not really clear how much a billion dollars is but the United States \u2014 our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}