{"id":1347,"date":"2004-05-04T16:29:13","date_gmt":"2004-05-04T20:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/05\/04\/secret_bush_pla\/"},"modified":"2004-05-04T16:29:13","modified_gmt":"2004-05-04T20:29:13","slug":"secret_bush_pla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/05\/04\/secret_bush_pla\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Bush plan to end the war"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Let’s hope we can get Saddam back,” Pinkerton writes. “Yes, it will cost us; we’ll have to go back to giving him arms and money. But fortunately, Don Rumsfeld is still available for another Baghdad grip-and-grin — just like old times.”
\n–James P. Pinkerton, a former White House aide in the Reagan and Bush I administrations<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Peter Carlson of the Washington Post writes<\/a>:
\n[Pinkerton\u2019s] piece [in American Conservative] seemed like wild satire until our military commanders in Iraq announced that they were handing Fallujah over to one of Saddam’s former generals and an army of Saddam’s former soldiers. It’s tough to write satire in times when reality is far weirder than anything a satirist can conjure up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Let’s hope we can get Saddam back,” Pinkerton writes. “Yes, it will cost us; we’ll have to go back to giving him arms and money. But fortunately, Don Rumsfeld is still available for another Baghdad grip-and-grin — just like old times.” –James P. Pinkerton, a former White House aide in the Reagan and Bush I… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}