{"id":698,"date":"2004-10-07T12:33:15","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T16:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=698"},"modified":"2004-10-07T12:33:15","modified_gmt":"2004-10-07T16:33:15","slug":"the-world-according-to-dick-cheney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"The World According to Dick Cheney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/CheneyDebateGrab.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Incredibly, <i>AP<\/i> (not <i>The Onion<\/i>) just released this headline: <b>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;ncid=703&#038;e=1&#038;u=\/ap\/20041007\/ap_on_el_pr\/cheney\" target=\"_blank\">Cheney: Weapons Report Justifies Iraq War<\/a>&#8220;<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">MIAMI &#8211; Vice President Dick Cheney asserted on Thursday that a finding by the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq that Saddam Hussein&#8217;s government produced no weapons of mass destruction after 1991 <i>justifies rather than undermines<\/i> President Bush&#8217;s decision to go to war. <i>[emphasis added]<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Good lord. They&#8217;re gonna fall <i>all the way<\/i> on their sword over this one. Which is fine by me. Keep digging, boys.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, back in Reality Land&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Documenting the many lies, fibs, misstatements and misdirects of the Veep has become a mini boom industry. Here&#8217;s a few samples:<\/p>\n<div class=\"list\">A quick &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cheney vs Reality<\/a>&#8221; video from the Democrats on Tuesday&#8217;s Veep Debate.<\/div>\n<div class=\"list\">Kevin Drum of Washington Monthly has a neat list of just some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2004_10\/004860.php\" target=\"_blank\">Cheney&#8217;s Top Debate Whoppers<\/a> from the other night.<\/div>\n<div class=\"list\">And the Dems have put out their own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/news\/200410060007.html\" target=\"_blank\">Top 10 Lies of Dick Cheney<\/a> list.<\/div>\n<p>The effects of all of that and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2004_10\/004865.php\" target=\"_blank\">continuing array of crappy news<\/a> for Bush is starting to show more and more as all his chickens come home to roost just in time. The <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/Politics\/ap20041007_847.html\" target=\"_blank\">latest AP Poll of likely voters<\/a> now puts Kerry over Bush 50% to 46%. Perhaps Good really will prevail over Evil after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incredibly, AP (not The Onion) just released this headline: &#8220;Cheney: Weapons Report Justifies Iraq War&#8220; MIAMI &#8211; Vice President Dick Cheney asserted on Thursday that a finding by the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq that Saddam Hussein&#8217;s government produced no weapons of mass destruction after 1991 justifies rather than undermines President Bush&#8217;s decision to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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-698","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\/698","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=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}