{"id":1411,"date":"2005-01-16T02:33:28","date_gmt":"2005-01-16T07:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/accountability_moment\/"},"modified":"2005-01-16T02:33:28","modified_gmt":"2005-01-16T07:33:28","slug":"accountability_moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/accountability_moment\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Accountability Moment&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news.  There is accountability in the Bush administration . . . at least <a title=\"Bush Says Election Ratified Iraq Policy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A12450-2005Jan15.html\">a moment&#8217;s worth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Bush said the public&#8217;s decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in prewar planning or managing the violent aftermath.<br \/>\n&#8220;We had an accountability moment, and that&#8217;s called the 2004 elections,&#8221; Bush said in an interview with <i>The Washington Post<\/i>. &#8220;The American people listened to different assessments made about what was taking place in Iraq, and they looked at the two candidates, and chose me.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great.  Now that we&#8217;ve used up our &#8220;accountability moment,&#8221; what do Americans have to address the &#8220;mistakes or misjudgments&#8221; of the next four years?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/accountability_moment\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to &#8220;Accountability Moment&#8221;\"><p>Good news. There is accountability in the Bush administration . . . at least a moment&#8217;s worth: President Bush said the public&#8217;s decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in prewar planning or managing [&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-1411","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\/1411","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=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}