{"id":1226,"date":"2004-10-19T18:38:35","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T22:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/evildoers_for_bush\/"},"modified":"2004-10-19T18:38:35","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T22:38:35","slug":"evildoers_for_bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/evildoers_for_bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Evildoers For Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who says President Bush doesn&#8217;t have international support?  He just received a crucial endorsement . . . <a title=\"Bush receives endorsement from Iran\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/president\/articles\/2004\/10\/19\/bush_receives_endorsement_from_iran\/\">from Iran<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The head of Iran&#8217;s security council said on Tuesday the re-election of President Bush was in Tehran&#8217;s best interests, despite the administration&#8217;s axis of evil label, accusations that Iran harbors al-Qaida terrorists and threats of sanctions over the country&#8217;s nuclear ambitions.<br \/>\nHistorically, Democrats have harmed Iran more than Republicans, said Hasan Rowhani, head of the Supreme National Security Council, Iran&#8217;s top security decision-making body.<br \/>\n&#8220;We haven&#8217;t seen anything good from Democrats,&#8221; Rowhani told state-run television in remarks that, for the first time in recent decades, saw Iran openly supporting one U.S. presidential candidate over another.<br \/>\n&#8220;We should not forget that most sanctions and economic pressures were imposed on Iran during the time of Clinton,&#8221; Rowhani said of the former Democratic president. &#8220;And we should not forget that during Bush&#8217;s era &#8212; despite his hard-line and baseless rhetoric against Iran &#8212; he didn&#8217;t take, in practical terms, any dangerous action against Iran.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ha ha.  No word yet who North Korean leader Kim Jong Il favors.  I wonder how well that last line goes over with the warblogger crowd.  What&#8217;s happened to the neocon domino theory?  I thought if we took out one country&#8217;s weapons of mass distruction, they&#8217;d all be rushing to turn their WMD&#8217;s in.  Ooops.  And ooops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/evildoers_for_bush\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Evildoers For Bush\"><p>Who says President Bush doesn&#8217;t have international support? He just received a crucial endorsement . . . from Iran: The head of Iran&#8217;s security council said on Tuesday the re-election of President Bush was in Tehran&#8217;s best interests, despite the administration&#8217;s axis of evil label, accusations that Iran harbors al-Qaida terrorists and threats of sanctions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}