{"id":1977,"date":"2004-05-25T02:51:48","date_gmt":"2004-05-25T09:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/05\/bush-says-us-will-persevere-in-iraq\/"},"modified":"2004-05-25T02:51:48","modified_gmt":"2004-05-25T09:51:48","slug":"bush-says-us-will-persevere-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/25\/bush-says-us-will-persevere-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Says U.S. Will Persevere in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&#038;u=\/ap\/20040525\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/us_iraq\">Yahoo! News &#8211; Bush Says U.S. Will Persevere in Iraq<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There are difficult days ahead and the way forward may sometimes appear chaotic,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The terrorists and Saddam loyalists would rather see many Iraqis die than have any live in freedom. But terrorists will not determine the future of Iraq.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, the terrorists and Saddam loyalists aren&#8217;t the only threats to the success of a free Iraq &#8212; we also face partisans in the American political system and media establishment who&#8217;d rather keep the Iraqi people in chains than allow a Republican president to share their victory. We all know who they are &#8211; those who would rather obsess about Iraqi prisoners with panties on their heads than talk about the Iraqis whose heads and hands were amputated by Saddam&#8217;s torture goons, those who would assert equivalence between the Bush administration and the Saddam regime, those who still celebrate the defeat of the US and the Vietnamese people in the war that ended with a communist bloodbath that took 200,000 lives in less than a month, those who are so impressed by John Kerry&#8217;s war record they forgive his totally lackluster career in the Senate and his buddying up to the rapists of Chappaquiddick and Chappaqua.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think the American people are as vain and self-centered as these critics believe, but we&#8217;ll see in November.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo! News &#8211; Bush Says U.S. Will Persevere in Iraq &#8220;There are difficult days ahead and the way forward may sometimes appear chaotic,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The terrorists and Saddam loyalists would rather see many Iraqis die than have any live in freedom. But terrorists will not determine the future of Iraq.&#8221; Unfortunately, the terrorists and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/25\/bush-says-us-will-persevere-in-iraq\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bush Says U.S. Will Persevere in Iraq&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-vT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}