{"id":733,"date":"2004-03-07T02:36:08","date_gmt":"2004-03-07T07:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/facilitating_the_discussion\/"},"modified":"2004-03-07T02:36:08","modified_gmt":"2004-03-07T07:36:08","slug":"facilitating_the_discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/facilitating_the_discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Facilitating the Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Marshall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2004_02_29.html#002656\">compares and contrasts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I will continue to speak about the effects of 9\/11 on our country and my presidency &#8230; How this administration handled that day as well as the war on terror is worthy of discussion and I look forward to discussing that with the American people.<br \/>\nGeorge W. Bush<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&#038;storyID=4511474&#038;section=news\">March 6th, 2004<\/a><br \/>\nThe independent commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks won&#8217;t accept strict conditions set by the White House for the panel&#8217;s interviews with President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, commission members said Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe White House wants the interviews to be limited to one hour, with the questioners limited to the panel&#8217;s chairman and vice chairman.<br \/>\n<i>Detroit Free Press<\/i><br \/>\nMarch 3rd, 2004 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting side note.  In the Bush quote above Dr. Marshall omits <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/03\/20040306-3.html\">this curious line<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The terrorists declared war on us on that day, and I will continue to pursue this war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Al Qaeda declared war in 2001?  That&#8217;s funny, because I sure have heard a lot of rightists blaming President Clinton for failing to go after the terrorists starting in 1993.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/facilitating_the_discussion\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Facilitating the Discussion\"><p>Josh Marshall compares and contrasts: I will continue to speak about the effects of 9\/11 on our country and my presidency &#8230; How this administration handled that day as well as the war on terror is worthy of discussion and I look forward to discussing that with the American people. George W. Bush March 6th, [&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-733","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\/733","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=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}