{"id":86,"date":"2006-04-04T15:41:10","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T20:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2006-07-18T17:44:06","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T22:44:06","slug":"more-on-zinni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"More on Zinni &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5323611\"><strong>A powerful excerpt<\/strong><\/a><strong> from Zinni&#8217;s new book that makes it plain that the Bush Administration was a ship of fools when it launched the war in Iraq.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zinni quotes Eisenhower: &#8220;In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld was useless but President Bush treated him and continues to treat him as indispensable.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful excerpt from Zinni&#8217;s new book that makes it plain that the Bush Administration was a ship of fools when it launched the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}