{"id":2730,"date":"2004-06-07T15:20:17","date_gmt":"2004-06-07T22:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2004-06-07T15:20:17","modified_gmt":"2004-06-07T22:20:17","slug":"hope-is-our-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/07\/hope-is-our-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope Is Our Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/5146260\/'>NBC Interview<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Brokaw<\/b>: Are you worried that in the next nine months or so before the election, that one faction in Iraq will try to become dominant, and especially since we have a constitution in Iraq now that says minority rights?<\/p>\n<p><b>Bush<\/b>: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><b>Brokaw<\/b>: What happens then?<\/p>\n<p><b>Bush<\/b>: You mean if that constitution is laid aside?<\/p>\n<p><b>Brokaw<\/b>: Yes.<\/p>\n<p><b>Bush<\/b>: I would hope it wouldn&#8217;t be. I would hope that the Iraqi citizenry realizes the importance of recognizing the rights of all people within their country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Bush Doctrine in a nutshell:  Don&#8217;t plan for the worst, just hope it doesn&#8217;t happen.   These guys are nothing if not optimistic.  Honestly, at some point I expect to Bush to go on nationwide tv and urge all Americans to get in on the process.  &#8220;Iraq won&#8217;t fall into chaos if you only believe!  Say quick that you believe, America!   If you believe, clap your hands. Clap your hands, and our mission in Iraq will succeed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It seems like there&#8217;s room for compromise in our next election.  What if we elect Kerry to the presidency so he could formulate and execute a coherent foreign policy, but we retain Bush in a cabinet-level position &#8212; the Secretary of Wistfulness, perhaps &#8212; so he can continue to fervently hope that things turn out for the best?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC Interview: Brokaw: Are you worried that in the next nine months or so before the election, that one faction in Iraq will try to become dominant, and especially since we have a constitution in Iraq now that says minority rights? Bush: Yeah. Brokaw: What happens then? Bush: You mean if that constitution is laid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}