{"id":3147,"date":"2007-11-19T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2007-11-19T09:48:19","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T15:48:19","slug":"taking-out-saddam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/taking-out-saddam\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking out Saddam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=16353304&#038;ft=1&#038;f=17\">NPR<\/a> has a story on a head-scratching quote from then-<strong>Gov. George W. Bush<\/strong> that almost ran in a <em>San Antonio Express News<\/em> article. Bush reflected on <strong>why his father did not &#8220;take out&#8221; Saddam Hussein<\/strong>.<br \/>\nIn the interview with the paper in 1997, Bush said that the consequences of killing Hussein \u00e2\u20ac\u201d losing U.S. soldiers as the result of sniper fire \u00e2\u20ac\u201d would <strong>&#8220;turn the tide of public opinion very quickly.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nThe quote was published for the first time this week; it was not used in the original <em>San Antonio Express News<\/em> story because the reporter also interviewed former <strong>President George H.W. Bush<\/strong>, and he added the elder Bush&#8217;s remarks in the story at the expense of his son&#8217;s \u00e2\u20ac\u201d seemingly innocuous \u00e2\u20ac\u201d quote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=16353304&#038;ft=1&#038;f=17\">Listen online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR has a story on a head-scratching quote from then-Gov. George W. Bush that almost ran in a San Antonio Express News article. Bush reflected on why his father did not &#8220;take out&#8221; Saddam Hussein. In the interview with the paper in 1997, Bush said that the consequences of killing Hussein \u00e2\u20ac\u201d losing U.S. soldiers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/taking-out-saddam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taking out Saddam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[390,391],"class_list":["post-3147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-george-bush","tag-saddam-hussein"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-OL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}