{"id":196490,"date":"2008-04-22T23:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/22\/even-now-bush-and-his-evil-minions-can-leave-me-dumbstruck\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T23:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T04:14:00","slug":"even-now-bush-and-his-evil-minions-can-leave-me-dumbstruck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/22\/even-now-bush-and-his-evil-minions-can-leave-me-dumbstruck\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Now, Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122 Can Leave Me Dumbstruck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time that I think that the Bush Administration can&#8217;t get any more self serving venal and incompetent, they rais the bar.<\/p>\n<p>This time, it&#8217;s the worst National Security Adviser ever, shortly to be the worst Secretary of State ever, Condoleeza Rice, who has just basically <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,351885,00.html\">called Muqtada al-Sadr a c@cks#cker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;\" >coward<\/span> on Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers.<\/p>\n<p>Rice, in the Iraqi capital to tout security gains and what she calls an emerging political consensus, said al-Sadr is content to issue threats and edicts from the safety of Iran, where he is studying. Al-Sadr heads an unruly militia that was the main target of an Iraqi government assault in the oil-rich city of Basra last month, and his future role as a spoiler is an open question.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know he&#8217;s sitting in Iran,&#8221; Rice said dismissively, when asked about al-Sadr&#8217;s latest threat to lift a self-imposed cease-fire with government and U.S. forces. &#8220;I guess it&#8217;s all-out war for anybody but him,&#8221; Rice said. &#8220;I guess that&#8217;s the message; his followers can go too their deaths and he&#8217;s in Iran.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This from a woman unwilling to announce her visits to Iraq in advance, who spends her whole time in a heavily fortified walled city, and has something like 1000 soldiers, and an equal number of mercenaries protecting her.<\/p>\n<p>Un f#$@ing believable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time that I think that the Bush Administration can&#8217;t get any more self serving venal and incompetent, they rais the bar. This time, it&#8217;s the worst National Security Adviser ever, shortly to be the worst Secretary of State ever, Condoleeza Rice, who has just basically called Muqtada al-Sadr a c@cks#cker. Secretary of State Condoleezza &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,964,1034,1063,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-foreign-relations","category-iran","category-iraq","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196490"}],"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=196490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}