{"id":548,"date":"2004-03-11T15:55:15","date_gmt":"2004-03-11T22:55:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-03-11T15:55:15","modified_gmt":"2004-03-11T22:55:15","slug":"bush-ads-ignore-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/11\/bush-ads-ignore-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Ads Ignore Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacewar.com\/2004\/040311034632.u7z4j2b7.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bush&#8217;s first major advertisement blitz loudly evokes details from the 2001 terrorist attacks<\/a> that left 3,000 people dead &#8212; including firefighters carrying a flag-covered stretcher out of smoldering New York rubble, sirens blaring in the background &#8212; it is mute on the campaign in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the commercials mention the 2001 recession, corporate scandals, the popping of the technology-stock bubble, job losses, the need to improve schools and health care, but not one word about the US-led occupation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think this is because of the &#8220;Not My Fault&#8221; theme of George Bush&#8217;s campaign.   Notice that every item he <I>does<\/I> mention in his ad has been blamed on someone else.   The guy just cannot admit that he ever did anything wrong or accept responsibility for any failure. Since there isn&#8217;t any aspect of the Iraq invasion or occupation that is either going right or turned out anything like Bush said it would, it has to be ignored.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><small> <i><a href=\"http:\/\/unfairwitness.blogspot.com\/2004_03_07_unfairwitness_archive.html#107902747448896954\" target=\"_blank\">cross-posted at UnFairWitness<\/a><\/i> <\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.Bush&#8217;s first major advertisement blitz loudly evokes details from the 2001 terrorist attacks that left 3,000 people dead &#8212; including firefighters carrying a flag-covered stretcher out of smoldering New York rubble, sirens blaring in the background &#8212; it is mute on the campaign in Iraq. In fact, the commercials mention the 2001 recession, corporate scandals, [&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-548","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\/548","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=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}