{"id":2191,"date":"2005-06-29T13:25:54","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T20:25:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-06-29T13:25:54","modified_gmt":"2005-06-29T20:25:54","slug":"hiding-behind-the-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/29\/hiding-behind-the-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiding behind &#8220;the troops&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a couple of must read posts by Billmon on the Bush speech in front of  a <a href=\"http:\/\/billmon.org\/archives\/001953.html\">captive military audience<\/a> last night:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last night, by contrast, seemed about as enjoyable as a root canal for all parties concerned. When the only way you can get a hand from a handpicked military audience is by having a ringer in the audience start clapping [<a href=\"http:\/\/americablog.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/abc-reports-that-white-house-advance.html\">AMERICAblog on the ringer<\/a>], you know you&#8217;re bombing (so to speak.)<\/p>\n<p>The problem, I guess, is that while Bush was using the troops as a visual backdrop, politically speaking <em>he<\/em> was trying to hide behind <em>them.<\/em> And it showed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/billmon.org\/archives\/001952.html\">here,<\/a> a possible subtle change in Bush administration talking points which was really the only interesting aspect in an otherwise drearily repetitive performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a couple of must read posts by Billmon on the Bush speech in front of a captive military audience last night: Last night, by contrast, seemed about as enjoyable as a root canal for all parties concerned. When the only way you can get a hand from a handpicked military audience is by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"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\/2191","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}