{"id":190038,"date":"2010-01-13T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/13\/bush-cheney-were-even-crazier-than-we-imagined\/"},"modified":"2010-01-13T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T02:09:00","slug":"bush-cheney-were-even-crazier-than-we-imagined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/13\/bush-cheney-were-even-crazier-than-we-imagined\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush-Cheney Were Even Crazier Than We Imagined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the Russian-Georgian war in 2008, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601088&amp;sid=anp.wBWKJBGY\">Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> considered military strikes against Russia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>As Russian tanks rumbled into Georgia in 2008, a post-Cold War turning point was at hand.<\/p>\n<p>George W. Bush\u2019s national security team considered launching air strikes to halt the invasion. \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Thus we learn that \u201cseveral senior White House staffers\u201d urged \u201cat least some consideration of limited military options,\u201d such as bombing the mountain tunnel that served as Russia\u2019s main supply line. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What part of the phrase,  &#8220;Russia has around 10,000 nuclear warheads in its arsenal,&#8221; didn&#8217;t these guys get?<\/p>\n<p>Great googly moogly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Russian-Georgian war in 2008, Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122 considered military strikes against Russia: As Russian tanks rumbled into Georgia in 2008, a post-Cold War turning point was at hand. George W. Bush\u2019s national security team considered launching air strikes to halt the invasion. \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 Thus we learn that \u201cseveral senior White &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,964,1040,1182,1033,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-foreign-relations","category-former-soviet-union","category-george-w-bush","category-russia","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}