{"id":605,"date":"2004-02-09T02:58:51","date_gmt":"2004-02-09T07:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/working_things_out\/"},"modified":"2004-02-09T02:58:51","modified_gmt":"2004-02-09T07:58:51","slug":"working_things_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/working_things_out\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Things Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/4179618\/\">Compare and contrast<\/a>:<br \/>\n<u>Then<\/u>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Russert:<\/b> You did  were allowed to leave eight months before your term expired.  Was there a reason?<br \/>\n<b>President Bush:<\/b> Right.  Well, I was going to Harvard Business School and worked it out with the military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><u>Now<\/u>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>President Bush:<\/b> It&#8217;s essential that I explain this properly to the parents of those who lost their lives.<br \/>\nSaddam Hussein was dangerous, and I\ufffdm not gonna leave him in power and trust a madman.  He&#8217;s a dangerous man.  He had the ability to make weapons at the very minimum.<br \/>\nFor the parents of the soldiers who have fallen who are listening, David Kay, the weapons inspector, came back and said, &#8220;In many ways Iraq was more dangerous than we thought.&#8221;  It&#8217;s  we are in a war against these terrorists who will bring great harm to America, and I&#8217;ve asked these young ones to sacrifice for that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you think there are a few reservists driving around Baghdad these days who might want to work out a deal to go to B-school rather worrying if they are going to get a leg blown off during the next eight months?<br \/>\nThe great ones always lead by example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/working_things_out\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Working Things Out\"><p>Compare and contrast: Then: Russert: You did were allowed to leave eight months before your term expired. Was there a reason? President Bush: Right. Well, I was going to Harvard Business School and worked it out with the military. Now: President Bush: It&#8217;s essential that I explain this properly to the parents of those who [&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-605","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\/605","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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}