{"id":19476,"date":"2013-04-25T07:24:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T15:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=19476"},"modified":"2013-04-25T09:21:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T17:21:48","slug":"epigrams-in-honor-of-george-w-bushs-library-dedication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/25\/epigrams-in-honor-of-george-w-bushs-library-dedication\/","title":{"rendered":"Epigrams in Honor of George W. Bush&#8217;s Library Dedication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Down in Texas, the George W. Bush Library is having formal opening ceremonies today. In honor of the occasion, here&#8217;s a few epigrams from my 2004 book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005Q64AXG?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B005Q64AXG&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=jimbovard-20\">The Bush Betrayal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>There are no harmless political lies about a war. The more such lies citizens tolerate, the more wars they will get.<\/p>\n<p>The myths of 9\/11 continue to threaten American safety.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Washington nor Jefferson ever intended for the President of the United States to become the Torturer-in-Chief.<\/p>\n<p>Bush is creating more terrorists than he is vanquishing. America needs a supply-side antiterrorism policy.<\/p>\n<p>The only way to reconcile the Patriot Act with liberty is to assume that government intrusions into people\u2019s lives are irrelevant to freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Truth is a lagging indicator in politics.<\/p>\n<p>The arrogance of power is the best hope for the survival of freedom.<\/p>\n<p>We need a constitutional amendment to make the federal government obey the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>People have been taught to expect far more from government than from freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Bush governs like an elective monarch, entitled to reverence and deference on all issues.<\/p>\n<p>If the president is reelected, the more cynical Americans become, the less dangerous Bush will be.<br \/>\n&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;<\/p>\n<p>To see more epigrams on Bush, government, and freedom, click <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/Bovard%20Epigrams%20page.htm\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Down in Texas, the George W. Bush Library is having formal opening ceremonies today. In honor of the occasion, here&#8217;s a few epigrams from my 2004 book, The Bush Betrayal: There are no harmless political lies about a war. The more such lies citizens tolerate, the more wars they will get. The myths of 9\/11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-19476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19502,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19476\/revisions\/19502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19476"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}