{"id":1468,"date":"2005-01-14T13:11:19","date_gmt":"2005-01-14T21:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2017-09-29T09:51:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T13:51:32","slug":"dubya-dubya-dubya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=1468","title":{"rendered":"Dubya, Dubya, Dubya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--110572669940190884--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/bush-01.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>President Bush says he now sees that tough talk can have an &#8220;unintended consequence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During a round-table interview with reporters from 14 newspapers, the president, who not long ago declined to identify any mistakes he&#8217;d made during his first term, expressed misgivings for two of his most famous expressions: &#8220;Bring &#8217;em on,&#8221; in reference to Iraqis attacking U.S. troops, and his vow to get Osama bin Laden &#8220;dead or alive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes, words have consequences you don&#8217;t intend them to mean,&#8221; Bush said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Bring &#8217;em on&#8217; is the classic example, when I was really trying to rally the troops and make it clear to them that I fully understood, you know, what a great job they were doing. And those words had an unintended consequence. It kind of, some interpreted it to be defiance in the face of danger. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/ALLPOLITICS\/01\/14\/bush.regrets.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>That certainly wasn&#8217;t the case.<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What more can one say. &#8220;Bring &#8217;em on&#8221; means support not defiance. It still blows my mind that this country re-elected this dumbass. Four more years. Ugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bush says he now sees that tough talk can have an &#8220;unintended consequence.&#8221; During a round-table interview with reporters from 14 newspapers, the president, who not long ago declined to identify any mistakes he&#8217;d made during his first term, expressed misgivings for two of his most famous expressions: &#8220;Bring &#8217;em on,&#8221; in reference to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-daily"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-nG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5669,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions\/5669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}