{"id":5826,"date":"2008-03-20T07:24:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T14:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5826"},"modified":"2008-03-20T10:45:05","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T17:45:05","slug":"cheney-on-two-thirds-of-americans%e2%80%99-opposition-to-iraq-occupation-%e2%80%98so%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5826","title":{"rendered":"Cheney on Two-Thirds of Americans&#8217; Opposition to Iraq Occupation: &#8216;So?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pensitoreview.com\/\">Pensito Review<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/DickCheney_So_ABCNews_031908.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Interview by Martha Raddatz of ABC News with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2008\/03\/20080319-5.html\">Dick Cheney<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Q:  Two-thirds of Americans say it&#8217;s not worth fighting, and they&#8217;re looking at the value gain versus the cost in American lives, certainly, and Iraqi lives.<\/p>\n<p>CHENEY (with smirk): So?<\/p>\n<p>Q:  So&#8230; You don&#8217;t care what the American people think?<\/p>\n<p>CHENEY: No, I think you can&#8217;t be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.  <\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> You must see the smirk to believe it. Video available <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2008\/Asked_about_US_opposition_to_war_0319.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review. Interview by Martha Raddatz of ABC News with Dick Cheney: Q: Two-thirds of Americans say it&#8217;s not worth fighting, and they&#8217;re looking at the value gain versus the cost in American lives, certainly, and Iraqi lives. CHENEY (with smirk): So? Q: So&#8230; You don&#8217;t care what the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"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":[64,24],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dick-cheney","category-iraq-war"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5826"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}