{"id":2518,"date":"2005-11-17T17:59:56","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T00:59:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-11-17T17:59:56","modified_gmt":"2005-11-18T00:59:56","slug":"their-saddam-and-ours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/17\/their-saddam-and-ours\/","title":{"rendered":"Their Saddam, and Ours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Rozen lays into Dick Cheney, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warandpiece.com\/blogdirs\/003092.html\">it isn&#8217;t pretty<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;The guy supports torture. He hides out in bunkers. He conspires with big oil to deceive the Congress. His chief of staff has been indicted for covering up that office&#8217;s role in outing a CIA officer to the media as political revenge. He bought sci fi Iraq intelligence from whoever was selling. He obstructed a Senate Intelligence investigation of pre-war intelligence. Basically, I don&#8217;t think the Dems are going to have any problem continuing to let the public know about Cheney, whose popularity rating stands about as high as Saddam&#8217;s in Iraq, right? Only in Cheney&#8217;s Anbar province, Wyoming and Utah, does his approval rating break 50% &#8230;&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Ouch!<\/p>\n<p>If the Republicans want to survive as a party, there&#8217;s just one course for the rational amongst them to take. As I put it last month: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/justin\/?articleid=7845\">Earth to Bush: Ditch Cheney<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Rozen lays into Dick Cheney, and it isn&#8217;t pretty: &#8220;The guy supports torture. He hides out in bunkers. He conspires with big oil to deceive the Congress. His chief of staff has been indicted for covering up that office&#8217;s role in outing a CIA officer to the media as political revenge. He bought sci [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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-2518","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\/2518","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}