{"id":702,"date":"2004-10-07T16:30:07","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T20:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=702"},"modified":"2004-10-07T16:30:07","modified_gmt":"2004-10-07T20:30:07","slug":"the-bush-legacy-1067-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"The Bush Legacy: 1067 and counting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BushWalk.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">I hate hitting refresh on <a href=\"http:\/\/icasualties.org\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a> every day. Yet I do it. Virtually every day, the number increases. Today the count of dead U.S. Troops in Iraq jumped tragically from 1064 to <b>1067<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Even that awful and ever-growing number does little justice to properly remind Americans of the disaster that we&#8217;ve been put through by this horribly failed Administration. I&#8217;m not sure that anything but the Bush Legacy as viewed by History years from now, once all the partisans have moved on a bit, will ever properly put things in the perspective they deserve.<\/p>\n<p>Even if Bush is removed from office &#8212; and unless outside events change things, I believe that he will be &#8212; it&#8217;s unlikely that Americans will <i>ever<\/i> receive the explanation and apology they are owed for the extraordinarily cynical and corrupt manipulation of the good will and benefit-of-the-doubt that we, as a country, had entrusted in these deadly Snake Oil Charlatans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate hitting refresh on this page every day. Yet I do it. Virtually every day, the number increases. Today the count of dead U.S. Troops in Iraq jumped tragically from 1064 to 1067. Even that awful and ever-growing number does little justice to properly remind Americans of the disaster that we&#8217;ve been put through [&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-702","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\/702","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=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}