{"id":2080,"date":"2006-09-15T10:17:36","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T14:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/09\/breaking_colin\/"},"modified":"2006-09-15T10:17:36","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T14:17:36","slug":"breaking_colin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/09\/breaking_colin\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Colin Powell Doesn&#8217;t Support Al Qaeda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting line from the White House yesterday.  <a title=\"Senate Panel Defies Bush on Terror\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory?id=2443345\">Here it is<\/a> responding to a letter in which General Colin Powell states his opposition to Bush&#8217;s terror-detainee legislation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Firing back, White House spokesman Tony Snow said Powell was &#8220;confused&#8221; about the White House plan. Later, Snow said he probably shouldn&#8217;t have used that word.<br \/>\n&#8220;I know that Colin Powell wants to beat the terrorists, too,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow, I&#8217;m glad we cleared that one up.  It&#8217;s good to know that a decorated military commander and Bush&#8217;s own former Secretary of State &#8220;wants to beat the terrorists.&#8221;  One might wonder why that issue was even implicitly questioned.<br \/>\nOh, that&#8217;s right&#8211;Powell challenged one of Bush&#8217;s policies, thus it&#8217;s only natural to conclude that he supports the enemy.  I&#8217;m glad Snow was able to confirm that Powell is still on America&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/09\/breaking_colin\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Breaking: Colin Powell Doesn&#8217;t Support Al Qaeda\"><p>Interesting line from the White House yesterday. Here it is responding to a letter in which General Colin Powell states his opposition to Bush&#8217;s terror-detainee legislation: Firing back, White House spokesman Tony Snow said Powell was &#8220;confused&#8221; about the White House plan. Later, Snow said he probably shouldn&#8217;t have used that word. &#8220;I know that [&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-2080","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\/2080","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=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}