{"id":640,"date":"2004-09-30T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=640"},"modified":"2004-09-30T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-30T16:08:00","slug":"president-whatthefuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=640","title":{"rendered":"President WhatTheFuck"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Debate exchange that hasn’t happened. Yet.<\/p>\n

LEHRER: “Mr. President, you stated that Saddam Hussein was a clear threat to the United States because he had WMDs. Now you state that he “could” have developed into a threat. Was your reason for war invalid?”<\/p>\n

BUSH: “Ummm…ahhh…well…you’re asking if we would be better off today if Saddam were in power? No. I reject that. See, Saddam was a threat. Remember he attacked his neighbors. He killed his own people. He tried to kill my daddy. No. If I have to choose between the word of Hans Blix and the word of a madman, I’ll choose the madman any time.”<\/p>\n

LEHRER: (confused) “Mr. President?”<\/p>\n

BUSH: “When you’re the president, you don’t have to explain what you do. That’s the nice thing about being president. It would be easier if this were a dictatorship, I wouldn’t even have to campaign. (snickers) But what you’re asking is this — the UN and Saddam are saying that Saddam doesn’t have weapons. Am I gonna trust Saddam to lie about his weapons? You bet I am.<\/p><\/div>\n

(From comments by ‘Sage Vanden Heuvel’ in reply to “The 5 Stages of Bushism”<\/a> at The Talent Show<\/a>.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Debate exchange that hasn’t happened. Yet. LEHRER: “Mr. President, you stated that Saddam Hussein was a clear threat to the United States because he had WMDs. Now you state that he “could” have developed into a threat. Was your reason for war invalid?” BUSH: “Ummm…ahhh…well…you’re asking if we would be better off today if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}