{"id":3404,"date":"2005-06-28T17:55:08","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T01:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/06\/28\/what-you-think\/"},"modified":"2005-06-28T17:55:08","modified_gmt":"2005-06-29T01:55:08","slug":"what-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/28\/what-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"What you think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe good folks at Moveon.org have an automated letter-writer to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moveonpac.org\/lte\/lte_t.html?zip=98683&#038;lte_campaign_id=23&#038;posted=1\">respond to Chimpie McBushitler&#8217;s speech<\/a>. You enter your name, and it tells you what you think:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s time to start <strong>responsibly <\/strong>coming home from Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The president offered nothing new in his speech. No plan. No <strong>exit strategy<\/strong>. Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq is no closer to stability than it was a year ago. Things keep<strong> getting worse<\/strong> every week. More than 1,700 Americans have been killed and more than 12,000 wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. occupation is fueling a growing <strong>insurgency<\/strong>. Our presence is <strong>exacerbating <\/strong>the problem. There are tens of thousands of <strong>insurgents <\/strong>backed by hundreds of thousands of supporters.<\/p>\n<p>We got into this war based on <strong>lies <\/strong>\u2013 the wrong way. It\u2019s time to get out the right way. The first step is to realize that the Bush policy is out of touch with reality.<\/p>\n<p>We need a <strong>real <\/strong>exit plan with a <strong>real <\/strong>timeline providing <strong>real <\/strong>accountability for our leaders. We need to turn control of the training of Iraqi forces and the rebuilding of Iraq to the international community. And we must renounce permanent military bases in Iraq because that <strong>angers <\/strong>the Iraqi people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now don&#8217;t run over there and claim your name is <strong>Saddam <\/strong>and you want your <strong>palaces <\/strong>back.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainsquartersblog.com\">Captain Ed<\/a>, who live-blogged the speech.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good folks at Moveon.org have an automated letter-writer to respond to Chimpie McBushitler&#8217;s speech. You enter your name, and it tells you what you think: It\u2019s time to start responsibly coming home from Iraq. The president offered nothing new in his speech. No plan. No exit strategy. Nothing. Iraq is no closer to stability &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/28\/what-you-think\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What you think&#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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-SU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404","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=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}