{"id":202,"date":"2004-12-08T20:36:43","date_gmt":"2004-12-09T01:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=202"},"modified":"2004-12-08T20:51:24","modified_gmt":"2004-12-09T01:51:24","slug":"rumsfeld-to-troops-tough-shit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"Rumsfeld to Troops: Tough Shit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&#038;storyID=7033038\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wwwi.reuters.com\/images\/mdf788694.jpg\" alt=\"rumsfeld\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As you know, you go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&#038;storyID=7033038\">Donald Rumsfeld<\/a><\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d agree with Donald, if, say, Iraq attacked us 9\/11 style.  But as we all know, Iraq could have waited (after all, Iraq waited ten years when Bush&#8217;s daddy failed to finish the job).<\/p>\n<p>You shouldn&#8217;t go to war with someone <strong>period<\/strong>, when you don&#8217;t <em>have<\/em> to, let alone start a war without the army you want.  Especially when the army you <em>have<\/em> is busy looking for real terrorists&#8230; and has yet to find them.<\/p>\n<p>By the way: am I alone in thinking Rumsfeld would make a great character on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmeat.com\/redmeat\/\">Red Meat<\/a>?<br \/>\n  You know I&#8217;m right&#8230; the <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/photos\/K\/KUW10112080923-big.jpg\">beady little eyes, the mischevous, evil expressions that work perfectly  in still images<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumsfeld tell troops that they are are ill equipped and are gonna stay that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}