{"id":198140,"date":"2007-12-07T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/07\/mitch-mcconnel-hates-our-troops\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T22:36:00","slug":"mitch-mcconnel-hates-our-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/07\/mitch-mcconnel-hates-our-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnel Hates Our Troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with the Grayson County News-Gazette, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcnewsgazette.com\/articles\/2007\/12\/06\/local_news\/news86.txt\">he said the following<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI won&#8217;t tell you everything is great in Iraq; it is not. But we want to keep a steady flow of funds so that we don&#8217;t disrupt the military,\u201d said McConnell. \u201cUnfortunately, most of our friends on the other isle are having a hard time admitting things are getting better; some days I almost think the critics of this war don&#8217;t want us to win. Nobody is happy about losing lives but remember these are not draftees, these are full-time professional soldiers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee&#8230;So I guess he thinks that &#8220;full-time professional soldiers&#8221; don&#8217;t have parents, or wives, or Fianc\u00e9es, or children, or girl friends.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe he&#8217;s trying to say that it was OK for him, as a draftee in the late 1960s, do give another soldier a hand job in the shower to get out, because he was a draftee, nto a &#8220;full-time professional soldier&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with the Grayson County News-Gazette, he said the following: \u201cI won&#8217;t tell you everything is great in Iraq; it is not. But we want to keep a steady flow of funds so that we don&#8217;t disrupt the military,\u201d said McConnell. \u201cUnfortunately, most of our friends on the other isle are having a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1063,1006,978,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-iraq","category-military","category-politics","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198140"}],"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=198140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}