{"id":724,"date":"2006-09-25T14:40:36","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T19:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=724"},"modified":"2006-12-21T10:11:58","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T15:11:58","slug":"the-captains-hindsight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=724","title":{"rendered":"The Captain&#8217;s Hindsight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In reply to my post on\u00c2\u00a0 Vic sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainsquartersblog.com\/mt\/archives\/008130.php#trackbacks\">this Captain&#8217;s Quarter&#8217;s 20&#215;20 hindsight\u00c2\u00a0post supporting Bush<\/a> and decision to overthrow Saddam. Frankly, as a fellow who crossed his fingers for this war like Tom Friedman\u00c2\u00a0I resent the\u00c2\u00a0Captain&#8217;s ignoring the most\u00c2\u00a0salient factor. Bush blew it. He and his administration\u00c2\u00a0have been\u00c2\u00a0totally incompetent and taken a bad situation and made it much worse.<\/p>\n<p>Only a\u00c2\u00a0hack\u00c2\u00a0can be expected to\u00c2\u00a0excuse Bush for making such a hash of this dangerous project which, contrary to what Captain Ed says, was always much more of an option than a necessity.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In reply to my post on\u00c2\u00a0 Vic sent me this Captain&#8217;s Quarter&#8217;s 20&#215;20 hindsight\u00c2\u00a0post supporting Bush and decision to overthrow Saddam. Frankly, as a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,31,58,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}