{"id":1407,"date":"2005-01-14T02:02:08","date_gmt":"2005-01-14T07:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/breaking_president_bush_admits\/"},"modified":"2005-01-14T02:02:08","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T07:02:08","slug":"breaking_president_bush_admits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/breaking_president_bush_admits\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: PRESIDENT BUSH ADMITS MISTAKE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an <a title=\"Bush Will Watch What He Says in Second Term\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/2020\/Inauguration\/story?id=406639&#038;page=1\">interview with Barbara Walters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I watch what I say. I said some things in the first term that were probably a little blunt. &#8216;Bring it on&#8217; was a little blunt. I was really speaking to our troops, but it came out and had a different connotation, different meanings for others,&#8221; he told Walters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sorry, false alarm.  He doesn&#8217;t admit to saying anything wrong; we&#8217;re the ones who made the mistake in misunderstanding his meaning.  And we&#8217;re not the only ones:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More recently, guerrillas in Iraq have used the president&#8217;s words in a propaganda video narrated in English, according to the Reuters news agency. The narrator of the video says, &#8220;George W. Bush, you have asked us to &#8216;bring it on.&#8217; And so help me, [we will ] like you never expected. Do you have another challenge?&#8221; The video then shows explosions around a U.S. military vehicle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wonderful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/breaking_president_bush_admits\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to BREAKING: PRESIDENT BUSH ADMITS MISTAKE\"><p>From an interview with Barbara Walters: &#8220;I watch what I say. I said some things in the first term that were probably a little blunt. &#8216;Bring it on&#8217; was a little blunt. I was really speaking to our troops, but it came out and had a different connotation, different meanings for others,&#8221; he told Walters. [&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-1407","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\/1407","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=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}