{"id":4370,"date":"2008-06-17T08:08:22","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T15:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=4370"},"modified":"2008-06-17T08:17:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T15:17:41","slug":"bush-slanders-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/17\/bush-slanders-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Slanders Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a Tuesday interview in Britain, Sky News editor Adam Boulton asked George W. Bush:  &#8220;There are those who would say look, lets take Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib, and rendition and all those things and to them that is the complete opposite of freedom.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>BUSH: &#8220;Of course, <strong>if you want to slander America<\/strong>.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>This is the same tripe Bush has been shoveling ever since the Abu Ghraib photos first surfaced in 2004.  Anyone who accurately labels Bush&#8217;s policies slanders America.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, there are still some Americans who swallow this crap.  Unfortunately, Bush has gotten away with bastardizing American freedom for six years now.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great that a British journalist had the guts to ask Bush the kind of question that American White House correspondents almost never touch.    [h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/06\/16\/bush-critics-of-gitmo-abu-ghraib-and-rendition-are-slandering-america\/\">Think Progress<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Tuesday interview in Britain, Sky News editor Adam Boulton asked George W. Bush: &#8220;There are those who would say look, lets take Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib, and rendition and all those things and to them that is the complete opposite of freedom.&#8221; BUSH: &#8220;Of course, if you want to slander America.&#8221; This [&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-4370","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\/4370","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=4370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4370"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}