{"id":197607,"date":"2008-01-23T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/23\/bush-begging-people-who-sowed-the-seeds-of-911\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T00:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T05:03:00","slug":"bush-begging-people-who-sowed-the-seeds-of-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/23\/bush-begging-people-who-sowed-the-seeds-of-911\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Begging People Who Sowed the Seeds of 911"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, this is the result of 6 years of failed Bush policies, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aM.skMXbD0KQ&amp;refer=home\">he goes to the House of Saud to beg for help<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This must be some sort of definition of &#8220;returning honor and dignity to the White House&#8221; that I was unaware of:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;&#8230;These days, President George W. Bush needs the world&#8217;s biggest exporter of crude more than it needs him.<\/p>\n<p>With oil at about $90 a barrel, the U.S. economy at risk of sliding into recession and American banks trying to raise cash to ride out the subprime-mortgage crisis, Bush has become a supplicant for Saudi financial help.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Hillary Clinton tried to turn it into an object of derision by describing Bush as &#8220;begging the Saudis&#8221; to cut the price of oil. &#8220;How pathetic,&#8221; she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I got your back on this statement, Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Pathetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, this is the result of 6 years of failed Bush policies, he goes to the House of Saud to beg for help. This must be some sort of definition of &#8220;returning honor and dignity to the White House&#8221; that I was unaware of: &#8230;&#8230;These days, President George W. Bush needs the world&#8217;s biggest exporter &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135,964,1031,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-foreign-relations","category-house-of-saud","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197607"}],"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=197607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}